Megalophobia is the fear of large objects. Some common triggers include tall skyscrapers, giant statues, vast mountains, big ships, and even animals like elephants or whales. But for a more comprehensive and vivid list, let’s visit the ‘Megalophobia‘ subreddit.
Created in 2014, it now has 764,000 members who constantly share pictures of things they find just too massive to be comfortable with.
Even if you never thought you suffered from this condition, the images are something to behold. (H/T)
01. Major Iron Giant Vibes From This Icelandic Pylon Concept
02. The Bridge, Near Da Nang, Vietnam
03. A Giant Flamingo Is Taking Over Tampa International Airport
04. Iceberg Alley, Newfoundland
05. Imagine Just Enjoying A Swim Underwater And This Big Boy Coming Up Behind You
The Giant pacific octopus. It is mainly found 2,000 meters deep in the ocean and is best adapted to cold and oxygen-rich water.
06. Astronaut Bruce Mccandless II Floats Untethered Away From The Safety Of The Space Shuttle
With nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.
07. Imagine Going Hiking In The Woods And Coming Across This Beast
08. Inside A Salt Mine In Soledar, Ukraine
09. The Size Of This Monstrous Machine
10. Ponte City Apartments, Johannesburg, South Africa
11. Infinite Lavender Field In Valensole, South Of France
12. I Went To St. Peter’s Basilica Today, And The Sheer Size Of It Made Me Feel A Little Uneasy To Be Honest
13. Coastal Redwoods Are A Thing To Admire
14. The Sphere In Vegas
15. The Rarely Seen Back Of The Hoover Dam Before It Was Filled With Water, 1936
16. Comet 67p/C-G Compared To The City Of Los Angeles
17. Few People Realize Just How Huge Michelangelo’s David Is…
18. Terrifying Water Wall
19. The Most Spectacular But Eerie Effect Was Produced By Towering Thunder Clouds That Were Photographed During A Sunset
20. Giant Hands Emerge From Venice
21. This One Is Very Unsettling
22. Crew Members Standing Inside The Cargo Tank Of An LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Tanker
23. Airship Hangar (People For Scale)
24. Not Something You Find On The Beach Every Day
25. This Enormous Crocodile Was Pulled From The Water In Zimbabwe Back In 2010 After Cows & Other Vital Livestock Kept Vanishing
26. These Atairs Up To The El Peñón de Guatapé, Colombia
27. A Free Diver Sitting In The Engine Of A Sunken Plane
28. Ben Nevis, Scotland
29. The Zubr-Class, The Biggest Hovercraft Compared To A Normal Sized Apc
30. The Titanic’s Propellers, 1911
31. The Monster Building, Hong Kong
32. This Thoroughly Creeps Me Out
33. The Size Of This Snowman
34. 4600 Ft Glass Walkway In China
35. This Feels Like A Necessity For This Subreddit. Chesapeake Bay Bridge
36. This Is A Japanese Spider Crab. Its Legs Can Grow Up To 120 Cm, And It’s The Sea Crab
37. 2nd Largest Hole In The World, Eastern Siberia
38. This Image Of The Empire State Building Taken In New Jersey Makes Me Feel Strange
39. Troll-A, Over 1500 Feet Tall, Being Taken Out To Sea Before Its Legs Are Sunk To The Ocean Floor
40. Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector In Japan
41. Constructed From 1978 To 1982 In Noisy-Le-Grand, A Suburb Located Ten Miles East Of Paris, Les Espaces D’abraxas Is A Notable Housing Estate Designed By The Late Catalan Architect Ricardo Bofill, Who Passed Away Last Year
42. The True Terrifying Scale Of The White Cliffs Of Dover, UK
43. Behold This Giant Bessemer Converter
44. Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain
45. Bagger 288 Excavator
46. How Much Would It Cost For You To Do This?
47. Humans For Scale… There Are At Least 3. If You Zoom
48. Portal 2 Gives Me Serious Megalophobia Vibes. Every Playthrough
49. The Spillway Of The Robert-Bourassa Power Station In Northern Quebec. It’s Nicknamed “Giant’s Staircase,” And I Found It On Google Earth
50. Sailing Under The Five-Mile Long Mackinaw Bridge – Connecting Michigan’s Upper And Lower Peninsula
51. Duga Is A Soviet Over-The-Horizon Radar Station For An Early Detection System For Launches Of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
52. Eyjafjallajökull Erupting In Iceland
53. Offshore Platform-City For Scale!
54. The Pageos Satellite Being Tested Before Launch
55. Trouble Ahead
56. Man Compared To A Nuclear Cooling Tower
57. Raffles City, Chongqing, China
58. Mecca Cityscape, Including The Royal Tower Hotel. The 3rd Tallest Building In The World
The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall by CTBUH
59. Sleipner A Offshore Platform
60. Did Someone Say Terrifyingly Big Doors?
61. Imagine This – Megalophobia, The Fear Of Large Objects
62. Look Up And Up And Up
63. Offshore Tripods Require Special Transport Unit Configurations
64. Just Some Legs… Eye Think
65. A Cannon Suppressor (Sometimes Called A Silencer) On A M109g
66. Marble Quarry In Greece – Megalophobia, The Fear Of Large Objects
67. This Sculpture By Anish Kapoor
68. Massive Chinese Highway System
69. Wernher Von Braun Standing Next To The F-1 Engines Which Took Man To The Moon. (1969)
70. Art Installations By Chiharu Shiota, I Hope These Count
71. German Hydraulic Steel Press, Human For Scale
72. A Star Destroyer Over Your City
73. The Cenotaph For Isaac Newton
74. From R/Spacep**n- Could Have Been Posted Before, But I Thought It Was Cool
75. I Went On A Walk, But There Was Something About The Trees In The Distance…
76. A Wind Turbine Base Before Concrete Is Poured Over The Rebar And Bolt Cage
77. NYC Oculus (With Proper Scale)
78. World’s Largest Doors. Can We Move On Now?
79. This Giant Sphere In Las Vegas, Nevada
80. Bagger 293 Mining Excavator Is Horrifying
81. No, Thank You – Megalophobia, The Fear Of Large Objects
82. My Daily Commute In Queens, NY
83. Elon Musk Just Posted This Photo… I’m Crying
84. The Bass Pro Shop Pyramid In Memphis, Tennessee, Is Excessive; It’s Bizarre Being Near It
85. Oil Rigs, Signal Hill, Los Angeles 1941
86. The Largest Cruise Ship In The World, Symphony Of The Seas
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