Photograph by C.T. Feng. A nice twilight shot of the often photographed Oia, Santorini.

Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins, National Geographic photographer. Kayakers navigate the waters around Land’s End in Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist destination at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Photograph by Nicki Chen. The east of Lancelin town is bordered by endless snow-white sand dunes, which are heaven for sand boarders.

Photograph by Nick Kelly. One of the photo off the coast of Koh Tao in Thailand, near Koh Phangan. A fish just happened to steal the shot.

Photograph by Greg Girard, National Geographic photographer. Tourists explore Megiddo, an ancient city north of Jerusalem where archaeologists found ruins of a palace and stables—evoked by a metal horse sculpture.

Photograph by Anton Barmettler. Point Reyes, California, near the top of the cliff, under fog.

Photograph by Yu Andy. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural event in China.

Photograph by Dan Desroches, it was taken in Death Valley at a location named Badwater, a dry sea of salt below sea level.

Photograph by Dimitris Koutroumpas, This photo was taken in Luang Prabang, Laos.

Photograph by Steven Besserman, Storm clouds move in over a Utah cornfield at sunset.

Photograph by Tim Allen, Kite surfers riding the wind, Table View, Cape Town, South Africa

Photograph by Mark Reimer, lagoon full of icebergs floating out to sea.

A curious female polar bear approaches the Lindblad Expeditions ship National Geographic Explorer in Svalbard, Norway.

A fisherman in Rawa Pening, central Java, Indonesia

A half-mile block of 40-story buildings could fit inside this lit stretch of Hang Son Doong, which may be the world’s biggest subterranean passage.

This picture was taken in northern Sweden during a train trip to Abisko.

Mana village, Uttaranchal, India and Tibet border

This was shot in the Serengeti, Tanzania, April 2010.

Photograph by Yourane Ung. People visiting Northern Ireland necessarily go to the Giant’s Causeway.

Photograph by Jeremy Nielsen. In Tibetan, Namsto means “Heavenly Lake,” and the serene beauty should not be missed by anyone who travels to Tibet.

Photograph by Victor Troyanov. Western Breithorn, European Alps.

Photograph by Rayner Marx. Track owner hurls into a dark heaven at Wild Rat Motocross in Colorado

Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins, National Geographic photographer. Ancestral Puebloan granaries, Grand Canyon National Park

Photograph by Dan Desroches. the early morning in Cuba.

Photograph by Lior Patel. Thai fishermen prepare a net for night fishing.