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Icehotel in Lapland, Sweden
Photograph by Ragnar Th Sigurdsson, Alamy
The northern lights flash above a guest outside the Icehotel, the largest frozen hotel in the world. First built more than 20 years ago, the Icehotel is constructed from 30,000 tons of “snis,” a mixture of snow and ice, in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, a small village outside Kiruna. Visitors don't have to brave the ice-block beds and stay the night—there's a restaurant and bar for shorter visits.
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Dahi Handi, Mumbai
Photograph by Sudeep Mehta, My Shot
Young people press together to build a human pyramid during Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of the Hindu god Krishna, in Mumbai. The object of the game, called Dahi Handi, is to catch and break an earthen pot hanging above the pyramid.
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Rock Islands of Palau
Photograph by Ian Shive, Tandem
A boat speeds through the otherwise quiet waters of Palau's Rock Islands. Located in the western Pacific, this Micronesian archipelago is made up of more than 250 islands.
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Observation Deck, Tokyo
Photograph by Trisha Ratledge, My Shot
"Thirteen can be a brutal age, with some days feeling like pressure is coming from every direction: academics, peers, athletics," writes My Shot photographer Trisha Ratledge. "On a quiet summer afternoon, finally relaxed, Emma twirled without a care 250 meters above Tokyo. Her laugh echoed across the floor. A beautiful day."
The shot was taken on the observation deck of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 52 floors above Tokyo.
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Flamingos at Lake Bogoria, Kenya
Photograph by Martin Harvey, Alamy
Some in flight, others still grounded, flamingos gather at Lake Bogoria, one of the "soda lakes" scattered along the length of Africa's Great Rift Valley. The lakes, named for the bicarbonate of soda leached from the volcanic soil, is home to as many as four million lesser flamingos.
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Macarons, Paris
Photograph by RGA/REA, Redux
Lines of macarons await buyers at Acide patisserie in Batignolles, a neighborhood in Paris. The traditional meringue cookies get their hues from food coloring and are filled with ganache, buttercream, or jam.
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Market in Sa Phin, Vietnam
Photograph by Justin Mott
Bright hanging fabric attracts buyers at a market in Sa Phin, a small town in Vietnam's Ha Giang province, just over a mile from the Chinese border. Hanoi is Vietnam's capital; Ho Chi Minh City is its largest city.
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Great Wall of China
Photograph by Dorothea Schmid, laif/Redux
The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China snakes through fall foliage near Beijing. A recent mapping project found that the entire Great Wall structure—which is actually a network of fortifications built over some 2,000 years—spans about 5,500 miles from the Korean border west into the Gobi desert. Of that total, 3,889 miles were actual wall; the rest were trenches and natural defensive barriers.
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Valdivia, Chile
Photograph by Charles Brooks, My Shot
Light from streetlights breaks through morning fog in Valdivia, Chile. The capital of the newly created Los Ríos Region was nearly destroyed by a major earthquake in 1960. Forestry helped the city rebound economically.
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New York Skyline
Photograph by Susan Seubert
The Top of the Rock, an observation deck atop the Rockefeller Center in New York, offers a front-row view of Manhattan's skyline. The borough is home to a staggering 1.6 million people—12 per 5,000 square feet.
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Pleneau Bay Glacier, Antarctica
Photograph by Eric Meola
Light playing off a glacier creates otherworldly hues in Pleneau Bay in Antarctica's Lemaire Channel. Photographer Eric Meola got this shot as he was in a Zodiac off the cruise ship Ocean Nova in December 2011. "As we floated up to an enormous iceberg, we went a bit too close and made gentle contact," he says, "just long enough for me to peer at the underside, which was being carved out and sculpted by the sea and waves."
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Davao, Philippines
Photograph by Francisco Guerrero
A Matigsalug woman and her child have a commanding view of the rolling hills of Baganihan in the province of Davao. The area in the southern Philippines is protected from logging and mining.
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Malecón Swim, Havana
Photograph by Robert Caplin
A boy exults in a sunset romp by Havana's seaside promenade, the Malecón. Like the classic American cars popular in Cuba, the seawall—built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—is a relic of a bygone age.
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Aymara Celebration, Bolivia
Photograph by Heiko Meyer, laif/Redux
With bolivianos tucked into their traditional wool derbies, Aymara men and women celebrate in Sajama, a province in west-central Bolivia. Aymara wear layers of sweaters, shawls, and blankets to keep out the cold in the Andean highlands.
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Lombard Street, San Francisco
Photograph by Sean Arbabi
The long exposure created by a slow shutter speed creates lines of light from nighttime traffic on San Francisco's Lombard Street, often cited as the world's crookedest public thoroughfare. In this one-block section, there are eight hairpin turns. The speed limit is five miles an hour.
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Freedom Square Fountain, Budapest
Photograph by Gabriella Biro, My Shot
An interactive fountain delights a young girl in Freedom Square, the former site of a barracks in Budapest, Hungary. The Hungarian capital is sliced by the Danube River, which separates hilly Buda from level Pest.
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Portland, Oregon, Coffee Shop
Photograph by Cheng Tsung Lee, My Shot
A barista prepares coffee using a siphon, or vacuum, brewing process in a Pearl District coffee shop north of downtown Portland. Like its fellow Pacific Northwest city, Seattle, Portland is known for its coffee culture, and the Pearl District represents with its fair share of coffeehouses.
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Holi Festival, Dhaka
Photograph by Rahul Talukder, My Shot
Colored powder flies during Holi, the festival of colors, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hindus observe the celebration in the spring, in part by taking to the streets and exuberantly flinging the vivid powder at each other.
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Midsummer Celebration, Austria
Photograph by Robbie Shone, My Shot
A group of mountaineers celebrates Sonnwendfeuer, or midsummer, atop Nordkette mountain near Innsbruck, Austria. Across the Alps, bonfires and torches light up the night in celebration.
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Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran
Photograph by Hamzeh Mohammad Hoseini, My Shot
Colored glass brightens a serene scene as a woman prays at Nasir al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran. Completed in 1888, the mosque is one of several in Shiraz, the economic center of southern Iran.
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