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Humpback whales merrily feeding in the rich glacial waters among giant icebergs at the mouth of the Icefjord, Ilulissat, Greenland

Colorful houses in the Longyearbyen settlement on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Briksdalsbreen (Briksdal glacier), one of the most accessible and best known arms of the Jostedalsbreen glacier, Stryn, Vestland county, Norway.

Hirtshals, a seaport town on the coast of Skagerrak at the top of the Jutland peninsula, Denmark.

The Great Sphinx of Giza. Monumental limestone statue of a reclining sphinx with a lion's body and a human head (believed to represent the face of the Pharaoh Khephren). One of the pyramids in the background. Giza, Egypt

Breathtaking landscape on the mountain road to Jebel Shams, Sultanate of Oman

Oryx family (adult couple + two calves) roam and run over the dunes of the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. This nature reserve will extend into Saudi Arabia and Oman but for now it is a 225 Km2 area within the borders of the Dubai Emirate and it has a fascinating desert fauna populations, including Oryxes, gazelles, wild dogs, caracals and wild cats.

Lake Moraine, Valley of the Ten Peaks, near Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canadian Rockies

View of Peyto Lake right before sunset, Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta

View of the fortified walls of the Vila Vella of Tossa de Mar from the beach. The only example of a medieval town still standing on the Catalan coast. It still has the entire original perimeter with battlemented stone walls, four turrets and three cylindrical towers with parapets. The interior of the Old Town is a charming place with narrow, cobblestoned streets, the Governor's House, a medieval hospital, and remnants of a Romanesque church and a Gothic church. Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain

Midnight sun over the Blue Lagoon (Bláa lónið) geothermal spa, near Grindavik, Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland

Bara people in the southern part of the central plateau of Madagascar.

View of the Coast Mountains of continental British Columbia (the Canadian portion of the Cascade Mountains/Pacific Cordillera) across the Georgia Strait from Vancouver Island, north of Nanaimo. Canada

Arabian gazelle (Gazella gazelle cora - Al gazal al jabali in Arabic) distinguished from the sand gazelle by its darker brown color) roams the dunes of the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. This nature reserve will extend into Saudi Arabia and Oman and it has a fascinating desert fauna populations, including Oryxes, gazelles, wild dogs, caracals and wild cats

Ruins of the Synagogue of El Transito (Sinagoga del Transito), a historic building in Toledo, Spain, famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Wild male Iberian ibex (aka., Spanish ibex, Spanish wild goat, Iberian wild goat) (Capra pyrenaica) - a strong mountainous wild goat with large and flexible hooves and short legs - Montserrat - Catalonia - Spain - November 2015

Chinatown in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.

Randolph Hall, the main academic building on the College of Charleston campus. Charleston, SC. Built 1828-29 and one of the oldest college buildings still in use in the U.S. Classical, colonial antebellum style

Oberwesel on the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Sankt Goar-Oberwesel

Hamilton Pool Preserve, a natural pool in Texas that was created when the top of an underground river eroded. Set in a protected natural habitat featuring a jade green pool into which a 15 m waterfall flows, surrounded by large slabs of limestone. Large stalactites grow from the ceiling. Located about 23 miles west of Austin, Texas