As sublight said, the ocean. All that water, all that distance. Never fails to take my breath away.
Redwoods amaze me too.
Also, ants.
Sunsets are pretty nifty too.
The visual memory of herd of huge, grunting slab sided hogs weighing at least 400 lbs each penned in a mud wallow near the side of a rural road being tossed dead chickens from the back of a battered red pickup to eat, from a chicken house that had just been cleaned out, and seeing them rush and fight between themselves dashing eagerly through the muck of the mud and their own feces to devour each chicken as it arced through the air twirling in the sunlight before it splattered in the mud.
Helicopters.
Every time I see one coming in for a landing where I work, I have to stare up at it, the wind blowing me back like a physical wall. Knowing I’m a part of an institution that uses these incredible machines to help heal people is a neverending rush for me.
Oh, and humans. Even the most normal, the most mundane of them can occasionally take my breath away. People are amazing creatures.
The Corvette C5. Every time I see one while I’m driving I practically have a wreck from staring at it. I find them breathtaking.
Also, mechanical and hydraulic systems of any kind amaze me. Be they the suspension on an automobile or a simple push-button ball point pen, I’m fascinated.
Heavily pregnant women.
My god - they’ve got another human being living inside their body!
Does this not stike anyone else as weird?
I believe it was Mel Brooks that said (paraphrasing)
“Morning sickness is all in the mind. Once you realize that you have something living inside you… you PUKE!”
Stars.
Thousands and thousand and thousands of them.
Especially being able to see the Milky Way.
Fascinating.
And, if I get to see a shooting star, well that just makes my night.
The rainbow patterns that appear on a CD when you hold it up and turn it this way and that.
LPs were never so beautiful. 
You read my mind. Another thing that amazes me is when I see how fast everything moves when I’m driving 110-120’ish on the freeway. It is neat the way all the others cars look like they are standing still when you go by them. Ahhh what a site.
I also am amazed by the stars. Absolute poetry in the sky. Especially if your lucky enough to see a couple of falling stars.
Childbirth. I mean… man that’s amazing.
The thought of an infinite universe.
Me Too on stars. The fact that they look like tiny pinpoints of light contrasted with their actual size and the distance that entails. Woah.
The occasional close-up view of birds in flight. They’re flying! In the air!
Fran
My daughter. She’s only 2 years old and you can practically see the little wheels in her head turning, taking stuff in, processing it, and filing it away for future use. As trite as it sounds, I still go into her room at night after she’s gone to bed and stand by her bed and watch her sleep. She is my treasure.
A baseball diamond.
The look on a person’s face when I’ve helped them in a matter of minutes to find the answer to a question they’ve been puzzling over for hours, maybe days.
The look on my dog’s face when I’ve said something particularly witty to him and he looks like he is just about to reply, but then remembers that he can’t talk.
4 things.
The sun as it sets over Vancouver island (which is the view out my window).
The setting moon is twice as glorious… and much more rare, since I only see it every 4th weekend over the winter.
What we Vancouverites call the North shore mountains. The clouds part, and suddenly SMACK there they are right in your face. The first time I spotted them on my way to work I fell down. And I was walking.
The crazy characters who hang out on my local beach. I’m always amazed at how many shapes and sizes people come in, the intricate ways they decorate themselves, and their willingness to flaunt it in the buff.
A harvest moon.
The stars and the sky at night. The sky in daylight, for that matter.
Fluffy white clouds.
My dog and how much he loves me. ALL dogs and how fond they are of people, even people who throw their cigarette butts out the car window.
Big airliners are amazing. Loading 300+ people into a machine that weighs 800,000 lbs. and has millions of moving parts, and shooting them through the air at near the speed of sound, 6 miles above the surface of the Earth, is incredible. Whenever I see one taking off or landing, I have to stop and watch.
This may sound sappy, but the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. THAT never fails to amaze me. What a beautiful film. Another movie that just amazes me is “The Godfather”. They’re both just so…perfect! I watched “2001” for the first time a few nights ago, and of course I finished it not knowing what the hell was going on (like 95% of the people who see it), but I didn’t care because I was amazed about what a beautiful film it was. (I’m reading the book now).
Not to say that little things don’t amaze me, but they’ve already been said: birds, trees, ants, infinite space, the concept of infinity, pregnancy.
Black holes amaze me. So do numbers, even though I am horrible at math. Just the fact that some people can do complex math amazes me. Lightning amazes me. My little betta amazes me, as do my cats. The way a CD works amazes me.
I’m amazed a lot during the course of a single day.
Craftsmen homes built in the early part of this century. Handbuilt, sturdy, beautiful woodwork, rooms big enough for people to live in, high ceilings, porches, actual woodwork around the doors and windows (not just holes cut in the sheetrock), hardwood floors that are actually hardwood… I love living in St. Paul.
Foreign movies that are subtitled in English - Somehow, when
a person is speaking in the foreign language and rhyming his or her lines, the subtitles also rhyme. How is this possible? Think about it, someone writes a play in Italian, with rhyming lines, and then someone translates this in English and still maintains the rhyming and the meaning! This is amazes me like nothing else. I’m more impressed at the skills of the translator than of the original author.
Also, I agree with the airplane flying. How can a humongous piece of metal and plastic like the 747 somehow elevate itself and fly halfway aound the earth? Its almost absurd (and I am familiar with the concept of lift). Anyway, I fly quite often, but each time I only give myself a 50% chance of survival. I think that we’ve just been real licky for the past 70 or so years. All of a sudden, the odds are going to catch up with us and planes are going to start dropping out of the sky all over the place.
And finally, I also agree with the moon being amazing. I can’t help but stare at it when its in view. And since I have very good vision, the moon is always full for me. I can always see the lighted part as well as the dark part. And when its full, I look up and see the little mountains and craters and other intricacies.
Good call, Jet. I am the exact same way. Could sit at the airport and watch planes take off and land all day. In DC, there is a stretch of grass under the takeoff/landing pattern of National Airport where you can take a picnic and just chill. Soooooo relaxing . . .
With a topic of “Things that amaze you every time you see them other than your SO” and an answer of:
I just gotta ask, how many black holes have you seen? 
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
For me, it is the can crusher we have at work. It is mounted to the wall above the recycling bin and I can turn a 12 ounce can into a coaster with suprisingly little effort. It is just so neat.