Oskar Landi is enamored by the moon. He’s photographed it in 11 countries on four continents for a series he calls Plenilunum, which is Latin for “full moon.” The ongoing project combines two passions—the wilderness and silence. “Out there, in the humbling grandeur of nature, you’re really free to wander,” he says.
READ MORE: Stunning photos around the world, in the light of the full moon.
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Every December, millions of people drag a tree into their living room and decorate it. Americans call it a Christmas tree. Russians call it a New Year tree. Whatever you call, it means thousands of people earn a living peddling firs and pines.
READ MORE: Americans got Christmas trees. Russians? New Year trees.
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And now for a definitive ranking of all the best hairstyles in the ‘Star Wars’ universe.
On a particularly gorgeous Sunday in October, 30 explorers with the New York Mycological Society met at a cemetery in Brooklyn to hunt for mushrooms. They rummaged through leaves, carefully inspected the headstones, and gingerly reached into tree trunks, hoping to find something amazing. A turkey tail, perhaps, or hen-of-the-wood. “It was like a scavenger hunt,” says Zack DeZon, a photographer who joined them on the search. “It struck me as the analog equivalent of Pokemon Go.”
READ MORE: Meet the obsessive mushroom hunters of New York City.
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The entire point of banger racing is crashing. This particularly European form of motorsport encourages smashing, bashing and flipping cars, and most of them are a mangled heap at the checkered flag. The beaten race cars are oddly beautiful, says Sophie Green, who has created an entire book of close-up photos of the crunched cars. “The scratches and textures are made completely by chance,” she says. “I love that randomness.”
SEE MORE: Smashed-up race cars look weirdly awesome.
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This stunning chart takes calorie counting to a whole new level. Created by statistician Nathan Yau, it was designed to illustrate how many calories you’re eating when you stuff your face with fast food. Each square corresponds to a menu item at the designated restaurant, with the leftmost squares containing the fewest calories, and the rightmost squares containing the most calorically dense foods. You may want to keep this close by as you start your New Year’s resolutions.
Read More: This Handy Chart Organizes Fast Food Chains By Calorie Count
Venture to the outskirts of China’s biggest cities and you’ll find soaring towers and a barren landscape. One day, these futuristic high-rises will house the 250 million or so people the government hopes to move from villages into cities. For now, though, they remain all but empty. “They look like ghost towns,” says photographer Aurelien Marechal. “They’re suburbs in the middle of nowhere.”
SEE MORE: China’s huge, eerie tower blocks that will soon house millions.
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Americans purchase more than 25 billion doses of acetaminophen each year. Most people pop those pills into their mouth without a second thought. To you, they’re just pills. But to Peter Juzak, they’re gorgeous, abstract works of art. Granted, you need a microscope to see acetaminophen like Juzak sees it after smashing tablets to bits.
SEE MORE: Turns out pain pills look insane under a microscope.
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New York photographer J. Henry Fair showcases the human impact of industries like fracking, mining, and fertilizer production with the sweeping aerials he’s collected in Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption. “I wanted to make pictures that told a story about an economic system that wasn’t functioning,” he says.
SEE MORE: The disturbing beauty of oil spills and industrial waste.
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Cape Schmidt sits at the northeasternmost corner of Siberia, a place that is by definition remote. But even by that measure, this former Soviet airbase is particularly desolate, a place so devoid of light and color that every photo Andrey Shapran made there appears to be black and white.
SEE MORE: Explore an eerie Soviet base at the edge of the world.
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