Ralph Foody on the set of “Angels With Filthy Souls,” the fictional gangster movie seen in Home Alone. circa 1990.

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Original cast of “Back to the Future” film franchise

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The famous Michael Myers mask from the Halloween movies was just a Captain Kirk (William Shatner) mask that they cut the eye holes bigger, brushed out the hair, and painted white.

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Welsh spiritualist Colin Evans feigns levitation by jumping up and down in total darkness and filming himself with an infrared camera. London, 1939.

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1300 years old tree, cut down in 1891. Note the historical events correlated with the tree's circles.

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Goonies never say die!

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Penguins on an iceberg that’s been flipped upside down, known as a blue iceberg. Icebergs release a devastating force during the rare occasion of them flipping over - as much as an atomic bomb.

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Cast members from “A Christmas Story” then and now

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Queen Elizabeth II meeting Marilyn Monroe in 1956 at the premiere of The Battle of the River Plate, both women were 30 at the time.

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The physical change of the Roman emperor Nero as seen on the coins issued during his reign . He was notorious for his cruelty. He came to power @ age 16 and died @ age 30. He ruled at a time of upheaval, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica's rebellion in Britain.

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A 17th century feathered cape created by the Tupinamba people of Brazil, now housed at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Only 11 Tupinamba feather capes from the 16th and 17th centuries exist today, and most, unlike this one, have suffered significant physical damage over time.

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Two boys sit inside Willamette, an iron meteorite weighing 14500 kg (15.6 short tons). It is the largest meteorite to be discovered in North America and the sixth largest in the world. The meteorite is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Photo taken in 1911.

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1300 years old tree, cut down in 1891. Note the historical events correlated with the tree's circles.

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Elton John returned to Dodger Stadium after 47 years this weekend for his final North American concert.

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Jayne Mansfield posing with Miss Hollywood (1957). Mansfield was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, she was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts.

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This 3,000 year old early Iron Age prosthesis was found in a tomb cut into the older burial chapel at the graveyard hill of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, west of Luxor, Egypt. Researchers think the toe is one of the world's oldest prosthetic devices. Image credit: Matjaz Kacicnik, University of Basel

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Micro burst / monsoon over Tucson, Arizona

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The detonation of a nuclear bomb, captured by Harold Edgerton’s Rapatronic camera, in 1952. This particular Rapatronic camera had a shutter speed of one hundred millionth of a second.

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Two boys sit inside Willamette, an iron meteorite weighing 14500 kg (15.6 short tons). It is the largest meteorite to be discovered in North America and the sixth largest in the world. The meteorite is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Photo taken in 1911.

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Monsoon storm over Tucson, Arizona (taken from airplane)

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Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Salk chose not to patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution.

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Provo Canyon

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Rare photo of the child voice actors who voiced some of the Peanuts Cartoons in the 1960’s. Left to right: Sally Dryer (Lucy), Christopher DeFaria (Peppermint Patty), Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown), Stephen Shea (Linus).

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English actress Ellen Terry. This photo looks amazingly modern but was taken 158 years ago (in 1864). Ellen Terry went on to have a distinguished acting career and died in 1928. (Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron)

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Partial cast of E.T., then and now.

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May 1922: 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

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Mt. St. Helens photographed from the same spot, 1 day before, and 4 months after erupting. The volcano used to be a symmetrical cone about 9,600 ft. above sea level. The eruption on May 18, 1980, removed the upper 1,300 feet of the summit, left a horseshoe-shaped crater and a barren wasteland.

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The Mercury train, Chicago 1936.

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The first photograph of Earthrise, taken by astronaut William Anders during Apollo 8. December 24, 1968

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During the 1950s Las Vegas added atomic bomb detonations as the many attractions Vegas had to offer and promoted itself as Atomic City; they even issued a calendar for tourists with times and the best places to view them. Over 12 years there was an average of one bomb detonated every three weeks.

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Korneyev's photo of the Elephant's Foot (1996), a large mass of corium and other materials formed underneath the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant during the disaster of 1986. Discovered in December of that year - still extremely radioactive, though the danger has decreased over time from decaying components.

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One of two known surviving tea chests from the December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party when 340 tea chests were dumped into Boston Harbor by rebelling colonists.

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B-25s flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy on March 17, 1944 as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.

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The first American aircraft carrier. Converted from a coal cargo ship. USS Langley. 1928.

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A man stands on a colossal figure of Ramesses II at the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt, 1865.

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Image of the Nile River, taken from the International Space Station

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Before its closure in 1998, Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport was known as one of the most difficult to fly into. The airport was located right in the city and planes required a 45 degree turn to line up with the runway, literally flying in between high rise buildings to land.

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The Book of Abraham started with a traveling mummy salesman. Not kidding.

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Early depictions of Jesus showed him using a magic wand.

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), naturalized American physicist, sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his “magnifying transmitter” in 1899.

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BoM racism manifest in a Utah County bakery.

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Strange cloud formation over Vineyard, Utah

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Water droplets on glass roof of Tesla

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Hardtack Umbrella underwater nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean near Bikini Atoll. The blast yield of the nuclear device was measured to be 8 kilotons of TNT. The spray dome resulting from the Umbrella blast reached about 5,000 ft (1,500 m) in height, and created a crater 3,000 ft (910 m) in diameter

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This formula is the “Standard Model Lagrangian”. It's an equation that encapsulates everything we currently know about particle physics - a gauge quantum field theory commonly viewed as describing the fundamental set of particles: the leptons, quarks, gauge bosons, and the Higgs boson.

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How Coca-Cola bottles have changed over the past 120 years

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Robert Pershing Wadlow (02/18/1918 – 07/15/1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was a man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow's height was 8 ft 11.1 in while his weight reached 439 lbs. at his death at age 22.

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Bono (U2) and Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), 1993

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First tattoo. On ribs, over heart. Orem, Utah (USA)

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