15 rare images that reveal a different side of the world

Humanity has been able to broaden its perception of the world in a number of ways: to observe distant stars, it has invented bold telescopes and, to investigate small microorganisms, has developed sophisticated microscopes.

As a demonstration of our species' incredible ability to understand the world around us, we have put together a list of images we are not used to seeing every day out there. It is one more impressive than the other:

1. The albino alligator of a Protivin zoo in the Czech Republic

2. This forest, photographed from above, that delights the most perfectionists

3. Child in the middle of a junk dump in China

4. Still in the Asian country, a huge deposit of unused bicycles

5. This grape that looks more like a pumpkin's miniature

6. The (almost) nice crocodile pup

7. This cute record of a cat sitting on a glass table

8. The confusing traffic engineering of Timisoara, Romania

9. This 20-year-old hamburger that, because of its preservatives, hardly looked altered

10. These stylish shorn alpacas

11. The Meeting of Glacier Meltwater with Gulf of Alaska

12. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom driving her own car

13. An unusual and gigantic Christmas tree made with bunches of bananas.

14. Where the Great Wall of China meets the waters of the sea

15. The explosion of color when it rains in the Atacama Desert - the driest on earth