Annual Schwäbisch Hall Weihnachtsmarkt in the market square, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (© sack/Getty Images Plus)

Dawn sunlight and waves at Portland Bill lighthouse, Dorset, England (© Lee Pengelly/Getty Images Plus)

Whitsunday Island, Whitehaven beach, Queensland (© Maurizio Rellini/Sime/eStock Photo)

A sailor pays respect at India Gate War Memorial, Delhi. (© Adnan Abid/Reuters)

Christmas tree farm in Ontario, Canada (© FatCamera/Getty Images Plus)

南邦国家公园的尖峰石阵，西澳大利亚州 (© Frank Krahmer/Getty Images Plus)

Arrivée de l’hiver au Japon (© SpontaneousPictures/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

A scooter adorned with multiple mirrors, lights, and air horns (© stocknshares/Getty Images)

Close-up of a microchip (© Bobkov Evgeniy/Shutterstock)

Goldener Saal des Stockholmer Rathauses, bekannt als Ort des Balls nach dem jährlichen Nobelpreisbankett, Stockholm, Schweden (© Mikhail Markovskiy/Shutterstock)

Tengboche Monastery in the Himalayan Mountains, Nepal (© Kyle Hammons/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Icelandic sheep for the first night of the Yule Lads (© John Porter LRPS/Alamy)

Bernina Express on the Landwasser Viaduct, Graubünden, Switzerland (© Marco Bottigelli/Getty Images)

Spruce grouse in a spruce tree in Denali National Park, Alaska (© Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott/Minden Pictures)

Luzulo-Fagetum beech forest covered with frost and snow, Ardennes, Belgium (© Philippe Moes/Alamy)

Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa (© 4FR/Getty Images)

Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy (© Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images)

Sunset over The Carousel Pavilion with Christmas tree, Geelong (© TonyNg/Shutterstock)

｢霜がおりたブルーベリーの葉｣カナダ,ニューブランズウィック州 (© Freeman Patterson/Masterfile)

Snowflake (© TothGaborGyula/Getty Images Plus)

The Seventeen-Arch Bridge over Kunming Lake in Beijing Summer Palace, China (© Jia Wang/Getty Images)

｢夕暮れの東京タワー｣ (© rudi1976/Alamy)

A herd of reindeer in Norway (© Lena Granefelt/plainpicture)

Australian Christmas sandman on a white sand beach (© fogaas/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

St.-Thomas-Kirche über dem Dorf Praprotno nahe Škofja Loka, Slowenien. Zum Tag der Unabhängigkeit und Einigkeit in Slowenien (© Guy Edwardes/Minden Pictures)

Skating on a frozen canal near the windmills at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands (© Lourens Smak/Alamy)

Trumpeter swans at Kelly Warm Springs, near Kelly, Wyoming (© DEEPOL by plainpicture)

German ski jumper Markus Eisenbichler competing in the Four Hills Tournament, Innsbruck, Austria, on January 3, 2018 (© Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Saguaro cacti in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona (© Jack Dykinga/Minden Pictures)

Silvesterfeuerwerk in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland (© Lilly/Alamy)

Sunrise at Mt. Fuji, Japan (© Juan Paulo Gutierrez/Getty Images)