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The Other Place: Surreal MC Escher-Inspired Hotel Interior in China

A maze of staircases leads absolutely nowhere within a series of new hotel rooms at 'The Other Place' in China, nodding to artist MC Escher’s famous lithograph print entitled 'Relativity.' ...

Distorted Shapes Made of Tape: Mesmerizing Installations by Darel Carey

Step into one of Darel Carey's art installations and you'll quickly lose your sense of the room's actual dimensions, your confused eyes tripping over illusions of ridges and voids that aren’t ...

It’s All in Your Head: 17 Optical Illusions Prove You Can’t Trust Your Brain

If there's one thing all these illusions can show you, it's that you can't trust your own brain. It'll blot out peripheral colors right before your eyes to help you focus on a fixed point, turn ...

Not Quite Mothra, But Close: Multi-Story Butterfly Shadowbox Murals

Throughout the last year, dozens of terrifying monstrous butterflies as big as pterodactyls have begun landing on the facades of buildings throughout France, Austria and other European countries. ...

Swim on the Subway: Taipei Train Cars Transformed into Sports Venues

Subway cars in Taipei have become swimming pools, basketball courts, baseball fields and track lanes to get residents amped for the upcoming 2017 Summer Universiade, an international multi-sport ...

Magic Ink: Highly Detailed Optical Illusion Drawings Pop Off the Page

Strategically placed shadows and highlights make these incredibly intricate nature-themed drawings more than just impressive pages in an artist’s sketchbook. The pieces reveal unexpected depths ...

You Won’t Believe It’s Not Photoshop: 36 Fake-Looking Photos

The very existence of Photoshop has made it easy to immediately dismiss impossible-looking images as digitally altered, but some bizarre scenes are more real than they appear. Anything from a ...

Walk on the Wild Side: 13 Crosswalk Illusions & Interventions

Optical illusions that seem to produce real 3D speed bumps on a flat street may enhance safety by encouraging drivers to slow down, but such colorful crosswalk paintings could soon become extinct ...

Phantom City: Thousands Spot Towers Floating in the Clouds

When thousands of residents of the Chinese cities of Jiangxi and Foshan reported seeing a ‘floating city’ in the clouds earlier this month, theories attempting to explain it ran wild, ...

20 Artistic Wall-Warping Architectural Optical Illusions

Seeing is believing... or is it? Aided by high-tech materials, today's amazing 3D street graffiti artists, 3D mural painters and other clever geek artists. designers and architects are finding ...

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