What am I seeing?
Some images just seem to need more explanation than others.
In our weekly series, we share images from the news that piqued our curiosity and raised questions.
This looks pretty anatomically correct...
Human backpacks
Models present creations by Rick Owens during the 2016 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, October 1, 2015.
An avant-garde desinger, Owens is a master of the catwalk stunt and having models wearing human backpacks stole the limelight at Fashion Week... no easy feat.
Human backpacks
An extra photo just because.
What am I seeing?
Not the most comfortable thing walking around with a pot on your head.
Potted leapord
People stand around a leopard with its head stuck in a vessel in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan state, India, September 30, 2015.
The leopard's head got stuck when it attempted to drink water from the pot, according to news reports. Forest officials tranquilized the animal and sawed off the vessel later in the day... very carefully we presume.
What am I seeing?
A walk in the sky... cool, but wow... up in the clouds?
Highline Extreme event
Competitors stand on lines during the Highline Extreme event in Moleson showing off their sky-high balancing ability in Switzerland, September 25, 2015. The participants only have a single safety line tethering them to the rope they're walking on.
Europe's best slackliners competed on six different lines ranging from 45 meters (148 ft) to 495 meters (1,624 ft).
Highline Extreme event
Guillaume Rolland of France stands on the line during the Highline Extreme event in Moleson, Switzerland, September 25, 2015.
What am I seeing?
They just look odd.
Gandhi record
Indian students attend a world record attempt for the largest gathering of people dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, on the occasion of Gandhi's 146th birth anniversary, at a stadium in Bangalore on October 2, 2015. For the record attempt, 4,605 students dressed up as the man famed as the torchbearer of India's fight against British rule.
In the previous photo, Shri Gopal, a Gandhian or follower of Gandhi's philosophy, sits dressed as India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, as he is joined by school children also dressed as Gandhi in an attempt to create a Guinness record.
What am I seeing?
Mysterious large wooden structures in the woods.
Wooden megaphone
Head of the department of the interior architecture at Estonian Academy of Arts Hannes Praks poses for a picture in the wooden megaphone in the forest near Pahni village, Estonia, September 28, 2015.
Three large-scale wooden megaphones have been set up by architecture students for visitors to climb inside. Professors at the Estonian Academy of Arts' architecture department sent students into the forest to find inspiration to create a forest library. But student Birgit Oigus, realizing that preserving books outdoors in the Estonian autumn and winter would be nigh-on impossible, decided to think outside the box.
You have to appreciate a student who ignores the assignment entirely.
What am I seeing?
Really have no idea what this is... looks like something from science class that you see under a microscope.
Shock wave
The shock wave of a T-38C supersonic jet flying over the Mojave Desert in California is seen in this photo.
Researchers used NASA-developed image processing software to remove the desert background, then combined and averaged multiple frames to produce a clear picture of the shock waves. Schlieren imaging reveals shock waves due to air density gradient and the accompanying change in refractive index, according to NASA.
What am I seeing?
Just your usual knife down the throat, but these folks are better dressed than most performing this stunt.
What am I seeing?
Wearing a toilet seat on his head, David Hu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, walks away with his team's Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds) at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The annual prizes, meant to entertain and encourage global research and innovation, are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes.
In the previous photo, Yoshiro Nakamatsu (L), a 2005 Ig Nobel award recipient for Nutrition, removes a sword from the mouth of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer, the 2007 Ig Nobel recipient for Medicine for his paper "Sword Swallowing and its side effects", at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some pretty interesting, unique research.