September 18 2012

China

Lotus leaf on the lake

(© Panorama Media/Getty Images)

France

Sunset at Montmartre and the Sacred Heart,Paris,France

(© Jarkko Penttinen/Getty Images)

 Germany

Old Town with the Castle and the Schleyer-tower,Nuremberg,Middle Franconia, Bavaria,Germany

(©Reinhard Schmid/Huber/4Corners)

New Zealand, Australia

 Underwater view of spawning salmon in Katmai National Park,Alaska,US

(© Paul Souders/Corbis)

 

 Australia, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom

 

A bus descends the serpentine turns of Tongtian Avenue on Tianmen Mountain near Zhangjiajie,Hunan Province,China

(© Tom Horton/Getty Images)