Chattooga River in the Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina, United States (© mtilghma/Getty Images)

Brown bear in Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States (© Danny Green/Nature Picture Library)

Artemis I moon rocket at Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States (© EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/Getty Images)

Adélie penguins, Antarctica (© Otto Plantema/Minden Pictures)

Danxia landform, Zhangye National Geopark, Gansu, China (© Weiquan Lin/Getty Images)

Moss-covered rocks in Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England (© Fulcanelli_AOS/Getty Images)

Octopus in defensive posture, Mayotte, Indian Ocean (© Gabriel Barathieu/Minden Pictures)

View of the Sanguinaires Islands from Corsica, France (© Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Getty Images)

Double-crested cormorants over Monterey Bay, California, United States (© Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures)

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia, United States (© dszc/Getty Images)

Mumbles Pier, Swansea, Wales (© Helen Hotson/Shutterstock)

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia (© Jan Wlodarczyk/Alamy)

Ammonite fossils from the Jurassic Period (© J Nemchinova/Getty Images)

View of the Wroclaw Market Square from the Witches' Bridge in Wroclaw, Poland (© Piotr Mitelski/Shutterstock)

Mount Sneffels in the San Juan Mountains near Ridgway, Colorado, United States (© lightphoto/Getty Images)

Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis, Eryri National Park (Snowdonia), Wales (© joe daniel price/Getty Images)

Grand Canal in Venice, Italy (© Juan Romero/Cavan Images)