This last one isn't odd or cool but it I wanted to post it anyway

omg, that tree bark almost looks like some sort of birdlike creature!

A night-time illumination map of North and South Korea. The dot in the north is Pyongyang.

Again, neither odd or cool, just a telling photo.

"Akintunde Akinleye, Nigeria, Reuters.Man rinses his face after oil pipeline explosion, Nigeria, 26 December 2007"

"An amateur astronomer named Thierry Legault took this crazy photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis silhouetted by the sun.

The shuttle (which is only 37m long and has a 24m wingspan) was traveling 17,500 mph at 350 miles above the Earth's surface -- and Legault says he only had .8 seconds to get the shot. The sun looms in the background a mere 91 million miles away."

A week of groceries from around the world:

US - $341.98

Japan - $317.65

Italy - $260.11

China - $155.06

Egypt - $68.53

Ecuador - $31.55

Bhutan - $5.03

Chad - $1.23

A prison in Uzbekistan, 1907

Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, 1910

View of the City of Tobol'sk from the North from the Bell Tower of the Church of the Transfiguration, 1912

i call bullshit. would someone in here with a family of 4 post their real grocery bill? american, i mean....

Coy and I spend about $70-120 a week on groceries. Usually average about $100 though.

I'm going to hang out with that family from Ecuador. They look like a fun bunch!!

The Doors to Hell in Turkmenistan

VY Canis Majoris

"When a chimp called Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of heart failure, her fellow apes seemed to be stricken by sorrow. As they wrapped their arms around each other in a gesture of solidarity..."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1223227/Is-haunting-picture-proof-chimps-really-DO-grieve.html#ixzz0o88jMWaz"

The Eskimo Nebula