This octopus candle holder that my sister hand made in a pottery studio.

Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858 - 1938) - from his series Regina Caeli [Queen of Heavens]; Mary with a Spindle

Water Serpents II by Gustav Klimt (1907)

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

Monastery Garden in Snow, c.1829 - oil on canvas ― Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880)

Baby red-spotted garter snake on blackberries. Lindy Pollard.

Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

wild horses living on the cliffs of the welsh gower

Abandoned cottage, Norway (via niume.com)

Maryland's Mallows Bay, is a designated national marine sanctuary, has an intriguing history. This 18-square-mile park is filled with the remains of over 100 wooden, flat-bottom ships from World War I, making it the largest ship graveyard in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it is a wildlife oasis.

[Image description: Three images of shipwrecks in murky green water. In the top image, three ships are nestled together, all covered in plants. In the middle image, the outline of a ship and some structures on it are visible as dark lines through the water. In the last image, there are many ships together, their outlines more visible in some areas than others.]

Initial ‘S’ - Chansonnier de Zeghere van Male. Cambrai, Bibl. mun., ms. 0128, B f. 132 - vue 2

This honestly looks like something out of a story book