15 cafes that look too beautiful to be real 🧵

1. New York Café, Budapest 2. Café im Kunsthistorischen Museum, Vienna

It’s hard to find the right words to describe the Café-Restaurant in the museum’s Cupola Hall... it’s just that beautiful.

Robin Williams would’ve turned 74 today

This thread will brighten up your day 🧵

1. His improvised scene in Good Will Hunting made the cameraman laugh so hard the camera started shaking. Matt Damon's reaction is authentic. 2. Robin Williams was among the first to visit Christopher Reeve in the hospital after the accident that left him paralyzed.

Disguised as a doctor and speaking in a thick accent, he announced he was there to perform a rectal exam, causing Reeve to laugh for the first time.

Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings come to life 🧵

1. Café Terrace at Night, 1888 2.  Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888

15 bridges that don’t look real 🧵

1. The ‘reverse bridge’ in the Netherlands

2. The Golden Bridge, Vietnam

This 150-metre-long (490 ft) pedestrian bridge, located in the almost otherworldly Da Nang’s Hòa Vang district, is supported by two giant hands that appear to lift it into the sky.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

15 architectural marvels that have withstood the test of time - a thread 🧵

1. The Colosseum, Rome

2. The Pyramids of Egypt

Built from stones weighing 2.5 to 70 tons each, the Great Pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure for thousands of years.

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it is the oldest and the only one still standing.

Beautiful things from the past - a thread🧵

1. Axe with heart-shaped holes, Japan, 1300s 2. Art Nouveau door handle, 1905

As William Morris once said during a lecture in 1880:

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

The genius of the ancient Greeks 🧵

1. Carl Sagan explains how Eratosthenes knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago. 2. The Antikythera Mechanism, history's first analogue computer.

It could calculate the positions of the sun, moon, and planets, and even predict eclipses.

Experts are puzzled by how such advanced knowledge existed so early and then seemed to vanish for over a thousand years.

The beauty of nature’s perfection 🧵

1. This is what happens when a bubble freezes 2. Sunflowers consist of hundreds of tiny flowers arranged in nearly perfect symmetry

15 villages that seem too beautiful to exist

A thread🧵

1. Imerovigli, Santorini

2. This is a real place...

Gásadalur is a small village located on the west side of Vágar in the Faroe Islands.

Its population peaked at 23 in 2010 but had dropped to just 11 by 2020.

15 streets that don’t look real 🧵

1. Hanoi Train Street, Vietnam

2. Lomanstraat, Amsterdam

This street is framed by a unique archway of leaning London plane trees that create a tunnel-like shape.

It feels like something out of a dream.

15 castles that look too magical to be real🧵

1. Neuschwanstein Castle

2. Eltz Castle, Germany

This stunning medieval castle, perched above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier, has been owned by the Eltz family since the 12th century.

15 beaches you won’t believe are real 🧵

1. Ipanema beach looks like it’s not even Earth

2. Cala Mariolu, Sardinia

Last year, this breathtaking slice of paradise was named the most beautiful beach in Europe and the second most beautiful beach in the world.

15 Greek islands that don’t look real 🧵

1. Mykonos

2. Zakynthos

The Italian poet Ugo Foscolo was born on this otherworldly gem of the Ionian Sea, inspiring him to compose the sonnet "A Zacinto" as a tribute to the island:

"Never will I touch your sacred shore again..."

15 Italian spots that seem too beautiful to exist

A thread🧵

1. Lake Garda

2. Scopello, Sicily

The otherworldly natural beauty of Canada🧵

1. Banff National Park, Alberta

2. Moraine Lake

Nestled in Banff National Park, this glacier-fed lake sits at an altitude of 1,884 meters and lies approximately 14 kilometers from Lake Louise.

Its vivid blue color results from sunlight reflecting off fine rock sediment left behind by nearby glaciers.

The beauty of bioluminescence 🧵

1. Swimming in bioluminescent water

2. Bioluminescence is the natural glow created by some living organisms.

From ocean depths to forest floors, it occurs in sea animals, insects, fungi, and microscopic life.

These glowing lights help them find mates, ward off threats, or catch food.

Rare footage of extinct animals - a thread 🧵

1. Restored video of the last Tasmanian tiger, a species that became extinct in 1936. 2. Lonesome George, 2006

"Lonesome George" was the last Pinta Island Tortoise.

He died in 2012 at the age of 102 and in his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world.

Animals are the best - a thread 🧵

1. The fist bump at the end is insane

2. How do they survive in the wild?

The most surreal villages in Italy 🧵

1. Imagine waking up to this view of Portofino

2. Calcata Vecchia is a medieval gem perched on volcanic rock in the heart of Italy.

Places on Earth that don't look real 🧵

1. Alaska has the clearest waters in the world

2. Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

The world’s largest salt flat becomes a perfect mirror when flooded, creating the illusion of walking — or in this case, skimboarding — on clouds.

The real size of things - a thread🧵

1. Baby elephants have no understanding of how absolutely massive they actually are 2. Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship

At 248,663 gross tons, the ship has a crew of 2,350 and can carry 5,610 passengers at double occupancy or up to 7,600 at full capacity.