Small rakan statues line the stone pathway to the Daisho-in Temple, Miyajima, Japan (© Malcolm Fairman/Alamy)

Le tourbillon de Myllykoski en hiver dans le parc national d’Oulanka, Kuusamo, Finland (© Lassi Rautiainen/Minden Pictures)

The whirlpool in Myllykoski scenic area at winter in Oulanka National Park, Kuusamo, Finland (© Lassi Rautiainen/Minden Pictures)

'Field of Light at Sensorio,' by Bruce Munro, Paso Robles, Calif. (© George Rose/Getty Images)

Sperm whale mother and albino baby swimming off the coast of Portugal (© Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures)

City lights from the snowy peak of Grouse Mountain at twilight, Vancouver (© Pierre Leclerc Photography/Getty Images)

Trakai Island Castle Museum in Trakai, Lithuania (© Andrius Aleksandravicius/Alamy)

Moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (© Branko Šimunek/Alamy)

Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China (© Bogdan Dyiakonovych/Shutterstock)

Ice hockey sticks in snow, Banff, Alta. (© Ascent/PKS Media Inc./Getty Images)

Flags outside the U.N.'s Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (© Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Eibsee lake at the base of Zugspitze mountain, Bavaria, Germany (© Marc Hohenleitner/Huber/eStock Photo)

Boeufs musqués mâles près de Prudhoe Bay en Alaska (© Oliver Smart/Alamy Stock Photo)

Male muskoxen near Prudhoe Bay in Alaska (© Oliver Smart/Alamy)

Aerial view of Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal (© Maksim Semin/Shutterstock)

Sunset in Val Gardena in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, Italy (© Marco Capellari/Getty Images)

A Brandt's cormorant hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific mackerel beneath an oil rig off the coast of Los Angeles (© Alex Mustard/Minden Pictures)

Majestic view of a frozen waterfall at Maligne Canyon, Jasper, Alta. (© Cavan Images/Offset)

Backcountry adventurer Alex Peterson speed riding on the south side of Mount Hood, Oregon (© Richard Hallman/DEEPOL by plainpicture)

Gypsum sand dunes, White Sands National Park, New Mexico (© Grant Kaye/Cavan Images)

Eurasian red squirrel in the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands, Scotland (© Images from BarbAnna/Getty Images)

Northern lights near Whitehorse in Yukon (© Design Pics/Danita Delimont)

Zebras and wildebeests in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania (© Raffi Maghdessian/Cavan Images)

Sunlit ridges against volcanic scree on Eyjafjallajökull, a volcano in Iceland (© Erlend Haarberg/Minden Pictures)

The Chinese New Year celebration in Xi'an, China (© Aleksandar Plavevski/Shutterstock)

从国际空间站看纽约市 (© NASA Photo/Alamy)

View of New York City from the International Space Station (© NASA Photo/Alamy)

Aerial view of the glaciers and mountains of Kluane National Park and Reserve, near Haines Junction, Yukon (© Robert Postma/Plainpicture)

汽车穿过贝加尔湖冰面的鸟瞰图，俄罗斯 (© Amazing Aerial Agency/Offset)

Aerial view of car crossing over the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, Russia (© Amazing Aerial Agency/Offset)

A reddish egret hunts in Fort De Soto Park, Florida (© Brian Lasenby/Getty Images)