Because when you’re stuck at a desk all day, it’s easy to forget how breathtaking the world really is.
Visitors walking over the mineral-rich pools of Yellowstone National Park // May 2016
Snow dusts the landscape in Maroon Lake, Colorado // Date unknown
900-year-old trees glow under the night sky in Sossusvlei, Namibia // September 2016
An interspecies friendship forms in Padang, Indonesia // March 15, 2017
The cliffside village of Positano on Italy’s Amalfi Coast // 2009
A self-portrait in the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia // January 31, 2014
Stage 17 of the Tour de France, on the road between Le La Mure and Serre-Chevalier // July 19, 2017
Sunset in Adelaide, Australia // May 11, 2017
A lone competitor in Death Valley’s Badwater 135 Ultramarathon // July 12, 2017
Shipwreck Beach, located on Zakynthos Island, Greece // August 5, 2016
The Missouri River, photographed in Russell County, Montana // April 23, 2017
The North Coyote Buttes, formed by Navajo sandstone and Chinle shale, in Arizona // February 1, 2013
Cly Castle, overlooking the Aosta Valley in Saint-Denis, Italy // 2016
Tourists on bicycles in Barcelona, Spain // August 8, 2017
Visitors stroll across a glass skywalk nearly 1000 feet up, located on Panlong Cliff in China // August 1, 2016
Sinabung Volcano erupts under the Milky Way in Karo, Indonesia // August 2, 2017
Sunrise over Jokulsarlon Ice Beach in Iceland // March 9, 2017
Mammatus clouds herald severe storms over Clovis, New Mexico // May 9, 2017
Victoria Falls in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia // March 18, 2017
Lightning strikes Tucson, Arizona // February 26, 2008
Hitching a ride in Padang, Indonesia // March 4, 2017
Annapurna Mountain, as seen from Pokhara, Nepal // December 4, 2013
Hot spring hangout in Jigokudani Monkey Park, Nagano, Japan // December 16, 2016
A herd of llamas on the shores of Coipasa Lake, Bolivia // February 9, 2017
Underwater cave near Cinque Terre, Italy // May 19, 2017
Black sand beach in Vik, Iceland // August 1, 2011
Lone elephant at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe // March 18, 2016
Sahara Desert ruins in Mauritania // March 18, 2016
Aerial view of a volcanic crater in El Sod, Ethiopia // March 4, 2017