50 Extremely Rare Pictures Of Incredibly Famous And Iconic Places That Will Completely And Totally Change How You Think About Them

1.This is what the Oval Office looks like completely empty:

This was in 2001 while it was being renovated.

2.There's a golf course right next to the Great Pyramid of Giza:

In 2009, a round there cost $15.

3.This is what the end of 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China looks like:

This is the eastern end of the wall, at the Yellow Sea.

4.This is what the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like:

Not sure what I expected.

5.This is what the back of the Price Is Right wheel looks like:

This might be the most mind-blowing thing I have ever seen.

6.This is what Mount Everest looks like from the window of a plane:

Grim thought: This is also a picture of the hundreds of people who never made it down Everest.

7.This is what Alex Trebek's Jeopardy podium looked like during a typical show:

He would use a black crayon to cross off clues because it didn't make any noise.

8.This is what's behind a movie screen:

A whole bunch of speakers just blastin' sound at your maw.

9.This is what the scalp of the Statue of Liberty looks like from the torch:

10.The Great Sphinx of Giza...has a tail!!!

11.Recognize these big ol' rocks? This is Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:

12.This is how big Plymouth Rock is in real life:

Hmm. Hmm.

13.This is what the Eiffel Tower looked like while it was under construction:

Less of a tower and more of a stump.

14.This is what a completely empty airplane looks like:

This makes me more uncomfortable than actually flying on an airplane.

15.This is what the set of Seinfeld looked like:

Specifically, this is what it looked like during the filming of the Seinfeld reunion episode during Season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

16.And this is what the set of I Love Lucy looks like in full color:

It feels so...wrong.

17.Unfortunately, there's no treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Just a lot of nothing:

Nicolas Cage... how could you lie to us?

18.And this is what the back of the "Mona Lisa" looks like:

19.This is what a nuclear reactor looks like from above:

I wish to touch it.

20.There's a beer bottle 35,000 feet down into the deepest point of Earth, the Challenger Deep:

See more of what the crew saw on their dive here.

21.This is what Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper” looks like in person:

22.This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:

Wow. What a sight.

23.This is what a canal in Venice looks like fully drained:

This is done to clean the canal and search for any mysterious clues to unsolved mysteries. Okay, maybe just the first part.

24.This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:

In case you were wondering.

25.This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:

Shout out to the Disney corporation. You don't see people talking about them too often.

26.This is what a completely empty CVS store looks like:

Nature is wonderful.

27.This is what it looks like 16 stories beneath New York City:

Specifically, this is what it looked like in 2013 during construction of the East Side Access tunnel. The project was completed this year.

28.Speaking of which, there are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding. The whole system is absolutely huge:

It cost two billion dollars to build.

29.This is a picture of a sunset...on Mars:

30.Cooling towers have an open bottom:

31.This is what the US–Canada border looks like in Idaho:

32.This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:

33.This is what the Golden Gate Bridge looked like while it was under construction:

34.This is what the inside of the White House looked like when it was being reconstructed in the late 1940s:

35.Back to Egypt, this is what the pyramids of Giza look like from a plane:

So tiny, yet so triangular.

36.This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces:

37.This is what Mount Rushmore looks like from behind:

No jokes, please.

38.This is what New York City's Central Park looked like during the Great Depression:

This picture, captured in 1933, showcases a range of "Hoovervilles," makeshift settlements created by the unemployed and named after President Herbert Hoover.

39.This is what Antarctica looks like from the window of a plane:

40.You are, of course, familiar with Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic"...

41....well, this is what it looks like from inside the actual house in the painting:

The window is down. Took me a second, too.

42.This is what Ireland looks like from space:

I think I see Bono.

43.The geographic center of the United States is here in South Dakota:

44.This is how close Russia is to Alaska:

Sarah Palin is shaking right now.

45.This is what the line to the summit of Mount Everest looks like:

Does not seem stressful at all. Nope, not at all.

46.This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world's last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:

That means the people who live there have little to no contact with the rest of the world. If you want to read more about the Sentinelese, read all about 'em here.

47.This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:

48.This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:

Absolutely enormous.

49.This is what a modern-day "bulb" inside a lighthouse looks like:

I think this also the lightbulb the dentist uses when they're cleaning your teeth.

50.And this is what the Himalayas look like from International Space Station:

Not so tall now, are you!