This natural wonder is located in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. I think that it is specifically the 177-foot South Falls, one of the 10 waterfalls in that park. Photographer Jared Decker climbed inside a cave behind the waterfall and snapped three shots, which he stitched together into this beautiful image. It is as if Nature herself has an eye and she gazes back at you.

You can buy a print of this photo at Fine Art America.

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Twitter user @samurai_ball snapped this photo of a snow formation a couple years ago. This cat is far more into winter than even Rudiger the snow cat. Bring him in from the cold!

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The mighty USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier based in Bremerton, Washington, passed through a rainbow in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday morning. For the photographer, Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ignacio D. Perez, it was a perfect moment. He described the event to CNN:

"As a photographer I am used to documenting operational events like aircraft launches and recoveries," Perez, a 21-year-old mass communications specialist third class, said in an email. "But when I saw the rainbow I was excited because it was different. I knew the odds of the ship passing near another rainbow were pretty slim."

Perez was fortunate he was on the ship's flight deck on another assignment when things began to fall into place.

"I was actually covering the end of a 5K run on the flight deck at the time, but I noticed the rainbow as a fog cloud was breaking and quickly changed my location to ensure I had a better view of the ship passing underneath it," Perez said.

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These holes look like big trilobites in the sky, or maybe they could be called “skylobites.” This picture of failstreak holes over Florida was posted by redditor deadhalo. They are sometimes attributed to UFOs, but there’s a perfectly logical explanation from meteorology.  

Failstreak holes are the beginning of ice formations in clouds. The temperature can be very cold before water vapor turns to ice. When ice crystals begin to form, the crystallization spreads outward in a domino effect. Meanwhile, water surrounding the ice crystals evaporates, leaving a big hole.  

Photographer Eric J. Smith snapped this shot near Redondo Beach, California. A man on a sailboat was texting while a humpback whale surfaced. He never noticed. ABC News (warning: auto-start video) quotes him:

"A small private sailboat maneuvered really close to the whales, and this guy on it was literally sitting in that position and never moved," Smith said. "He could have been texting his mom in the hospital for all I know, but I thought it sucked that he missed such a wonderful moment happening just two feet in front of him."

-via Ed Morrissey

Is it a cute mother and baby photo or a scene from Alien? When people get too creative with a camera, you may not be able to tell. How to Be a Dad culled through the archives of Awkward Family Photos for the most ridiculous maternity photos ever shot.  Some expecting couples take their prompts from Harry Potter, burlesque, and from dark parts of the human soul that should be best left unexplored. You can find more here.

A year ago, redditor Crispy-Snax tried to use a parking meter in Urbana, Illinois. The ice coating the entire face of the machine peeled off in one piece. He says that he was able to get the meter to work after hitting it a few times.

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Fly Turkish Airlines! Just don’t expect to go very far. Redditor MrMalta writes, “Didn't really think this one through did they?” No, they didn’t. I’ll take the bus instead.

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(Photo: Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniature)

During her lifetime, Tucson, Arizona philanthropist Pat Arnell has collected a wide array of ornate, high-quality miniatures. Five years ago, Arnell opened a museum to exhibit her collection to the public: the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniature. There, visitors can find this beautiful work by the American miniaturist W. Foster Tracy. It is a 1:8 scale representation of an Eighteenth Century violin maker’s workshop set inside a full-size violin. This is 1 of 6 copies that Tracy made in 1979.

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RYC-Behind the Lens snapped this photo of a great cosplay at Stan Lee's Comikaze 2014, a fan convention in Los Angeles. The Disney princess Pocahontas from the movie of the same name finds ballet calling her just around the riverbend.

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(Photo: AP/J. Pat Carter)

Chanel Beckenlehner of Caledon, Ontario represented Canada at the Miss Universe pageant in Miami yesterday. She wore a fantastic costume that displays her homeland’s love for hockey. In the place of a tiara, Beckenlehner wore a model of the Stanley Cup and a hockey goal net. Her boots resemble lace-up skates and her wings consist of fans of hockey sticks. And, yes, that scoreboard is part of her dress.

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(Photo: Dick Mulder)

In 2011, a 4-foot long four-lined snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata) swallowed a smaller whip snake (Platyceps najadum) on the Greek island of Corfu. A pet cat then killed the four-lined snake.

Dick Mulder, a Dutchman who lives on the island, snapped photos of the incredible scene that followed. He described it to National Geographic:

"My wife, who didn't like the idea of a dead snake on her veranda, screeched that the snake wasn't dead—she saw it moving," he said in an email. "I reassured her that it was really dead," Mulder recalled—until he took a closer look.

"I went to grab my camera, and by the time I came back I saw the head of a small snake," he said.

The whip snake then fled into the wild. That's one tough little snake!

The Stock Photobomber (he doesn’t use his name) is an advertising art director with twenty years experience. His hobby is Photoshopping himself into stock images to give them a totally different meaning. Whereas a model was initially triumphant in her ascent to the top of the mountain, after she gets the Stock Photobomber treatment, she’s guilty of murder. A romantic moment gets creepy when a third person is watching. And some are just too strange to describe. See the rest of the images, both before and other the photobombing, at The Stock Photobomber. -via Uproxx

This cat has the strangest, humanlike face with eyes that look as if they can see right through you. We don’t know whose cat this is, and the earliest appearances of the photograph are in various languages I cannot read. Using a machine translation, none appear to identify him. Some compared him to the Middle-Earth wizard Radagast from the movie The Hobbit, probably for his drooping whiskers and bulbous nose. But perhaps another movie would have a more appropriate role for him. -via reddit

In 1914, the Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupted and its lava flowed for months until it filled the narrow straits and connected the volcano island and the mainland, turning it into a peninsula.

That volcano eruption was captured on film in the above photograph by the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. The photo showed a group of men on a boat expedition to the island frantically trying to sail away as fast as they could from the billowing column of ash, smoke, and probably lava.

The photo is the first of many fascinating photos of volcano eruptions as curated by National Geographic.

If you like that one, here's a more modern one in the "escape from volcano" genre. This time, it's the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the northern Philippines. It's taken by photographer Alberto Garcia from the back of his van. "All of us survived, thank God," he said.

Take a look at the complete photo series over at National Geographic.