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optical illusions

  1. maximus otter

    Inside UK's Wonkiest Pub Where Coins 'Roll Uphill' In Bizarre Optical Illusion

    The Crooked House, in Himley, West Midlands, has attracted fans from the four corners of the world since it became a pub in the 1830s. And it's all down to its odd structure and crooked bar. Said to be a favourite of visitors, the building slants to the left and is decorated with crooked...
  2. sherbetbizarre

    Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand

    25 Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/photos ... understand It's amazing how some of these accidents turned out, and would have loved to have seen the reactions of the people who took them!
  3. M

    Mirages

    I am suprised this kind of thing hasn't got its own thread (or I've missed it) as cities in the air come up occasionally: Source Link is dead. The MIA news story (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine...
  4. G

    The Optical Illusions Thread

    I love a good optical illusion, and think they deserve their own thread. So this is it! Here's a damn jollly good page of illusions ... I especially like the wheels that appear to rotate as you move your head towards the monitor ... absolutely mental...
  5. M

    Brocken Spectre (A "Glory")

    (Copied / transplanted from the Weird Weather thread) Here's some nice piccies of some of these phenonoma. Jane. Here's the relevant text and a photo from the cited webpage ... Yet another colorful and rare phenomenon, the Brocken spectrum (also know as a glory), here a picture taken in...
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