Japanese Zen garden lake Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kyoto, Honshu, Japan, Asia

Face painting ritual, Sinchi Warmi, Amazonia, Napo Province, Ecuador

Painter working on Painted Rocks site, work of the Belgian artist Jean Verame, around Tafraout, Anti-Atlas, Morocco

Glacial iceberg detail from ice calved off the Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska, United States of America

Stag rock, Bamburgh, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Totem poles in the cemetery of the First Nations Kwakwaka'wakw people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, North America

Kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

Kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

Natural history staff from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Endeavour doing various things in and around the Antarctic Peninsula

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore with guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Endeavour on Torgeson Island near the Antarctic Peninsula

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and his wife Kathy kayaking with a leopard seal near Danco Island, Antarctica

A Mayan woman use natural dyes to color fabrics. Ixoq Ajkeem comunity, San Juan La Laguna, Solol√°, Guatemala. Santiago Atitlan, lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru, Ilha rata, Fernando de Noronha national marine sanctuary, Pernambuco, Brazil (S. Atlantic)

White Mexican church and street art at 5th Avenue, Playa del Carmen, Caribe, Quintana Roo state, Mayan Riviera, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Portal Maya sculpture Mayan Gateway situated in Parque Fundadores by sculptor Jose Arturo Tavares in Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Globe sculpture, global warming

Sand sculpture at the Sand Sculpture Festival, Berlin, Germany, Europe