18 Truly Stunning Photos You Must See Before You Die!

There are so many amazing things in the world that are truly worth seeing. And with the benefit of high-resolution cameras and social media, these things are today more available than ever. Go through the gallery below and enjoy some of the most spectacular images taken by different photographers from all over the world.

1. Frozen waves on the shores of the island of Nantucket.

2. A turtle riding a jellyfish.

3. Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world. It’s 379 ft (115 m) tall, and approximately 700-800 years old.

4. The Fukang meteorite, a precious gift the universe brought to Earth, is believed to be some 4.5 billion years old.

5. What a solar eclipse looks like from space.

6. Birds, lit up by a fire raging below, find their way through thick black smoke.

7. A temple in Kyoto, Japan, hidden by snow.

8. Shadows thousands of miles long cast by clouds on the Earth’s surface.

9. Extreme kayaking near molten lava in Hawaii.

10. The highest resolution photos ever taken by a telescope of the Orion Nebula.

11. A fire opal — it really looks like sunset inside a rock!

What on earth can be more amazing than a sunset view trapped inside a rock?

12. Thor’s Well, Oregon.

Also known as ’the gates of the dungeon.’

13. The sun, shot in ultraviolet.

14. The fury of a thunderstorm.

15. A close up of a human eye reveals, in remarkable detail, the structures of the iris.

16. A frozen pond in Switzerland.

17. The footprints of a monk that have become worn into the floor after he prayed in the same spot every day for years on end.

18. This is what the Earth looks like from an unfamiliar perspective — from that of the Pacific Ocean.