This fishing port in southwestern England's county of Cornwall rests along the sheltered Mount's Bay and is blessed with a mild climate year-round, as evidenced by the subtropical plants in Morrab gardens. Near Penzance is the town of St.Ives, a quaint place with a reputation as an artist's colony.

Columbus, city and seat of Muscogee County, western Georgia, a port at the head of the Chattahoochee River, opposite Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus is a regional transportation, trade, cultural, and manufacturing hub. Its many textile, food-processing, and metalworking industries are powered by hydroelectric plants on the Chattahoochee River.

The Icefields Parkway is a scenic mountain highway connecting Lake Louise and Jasper through the Canadian Rockies of Alberta. The route follows valleys between rugged peaks, passing glaciers, turquoise lakes, alpine meadows, forests, and major river headwaters. It crosses the Continental Divide and runs through both Banff and Jasper national parks, forming part of a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.

Malolotja Nature Reserve, often referred to as Malolotja National Park, lies in the northwestern highlands of Eswatini, close to the South African border. Covering more than 18,000 hectares, it protects one of the country’s largest areas of mountain wilderness, with rolling grasslands, deep valleys, wetlands, woodland, and mistbelt forest.

Petrified Forest National Park stretches across the colorful high desert of northeastern Arizona, where grasslands, mesas, badlands, and ancient fossil deposits form an unusual landscape. The park is best known for its extensive petrified wood, much of it preserved from trees that lived in a river environment more than 200 million years ago.