2022-12-31: Rock formations in the White Desert, Egypt (© Anton Petrus/Getty Images)
2022-12-30: A pair of silver-studded blue butterflies (© Misja Smits/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-29: Maloja, Switzerland (© Roberto Moiola/Getty)
2022-12-28: Blue Lagoon, Grindavík, Iceland (© Westend61/Getty Images)
2022-12-27: Beverley Westwood Common, East Yorkshire, England (© Les Gibbon/Alamy)
2022-12-26: Miniature holiday scene in Strasbourg, France (© Kavalenkava Volha/Alamy)
2022-12-25: Amalga Harbor, Alaska (© Mark Kelley/Tandem Stills + Motion)
2022-12-24: Gentoo penguins in Antarctica (© Nature Picture Library/Alamy)
2022-12-23: Christmas tree of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France (© Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)
2022-12-22: Sun halo over Lake Antermoia in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy (© Walter Donega/Getty Images)
2022-12-21: Christmas market at Belvedere in Vienna, Austria (© Diyana Dimitrova/Alamy)
2022-12-20: A northern cardinal perched in a common winterberry bush in Marion County, Illinois (© Richard and Susan Day/Danita Delimont)
2022-12-19: South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida (© Claudia Uripos/eStock Photo)
2022-12-18: Mountain goats at Glacier National Park in Montana (© Sumio Harada/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-17: Holiday lights in the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia (© Natalia Kuzmina/Alamy)
2022-12-16: Borovets, Bulgaria (© Grigor Ivanov/Cavan Images)
2022-12-15: Great horned owls and a gilded flicker on a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona (© John Cancalosi/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-14: Hallstatt, Austria (© Jon Arnold Images Ltd/Alamy)
2022-12-13: Poinsettia plants (© Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images)
2022-12-12: Tangle Creek Falls in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada (© Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-11: Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia (© Theo Allofs/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-10: Muskox mother and calf in Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway (© Robert Haasmann/Minden Pictures)
2022-12-09: The Cathedral of Florence, Italy (© Alexander Baert/Amazing Aerial Agency)
2022-12-08: Mokoli'I Island in Kaneohe Bay, seen from Kualoa Regional Park, Oahu, Hawaii (© Riddhish Chakraborty/Getty Images)
2022-12-07: A great egret in Everglades National Park, Florida (© Troy Harrison/Getty Images)
2022-12-06: Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland (© Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
2022-12-05: Elephants near Mount Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park, Kenya (© Diana Robinson Photography/Getty Images)
2022-12-04: Miami Beach, Florida (© Matteo Colombo/Getty Images)
2022-12-03: Tlikakila River Delta in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska (© Dawn Wilson Photography/Getty Images)
2022-12-02: Paradise Harbour, Antarctica (© SinghaphanAllB/Getty Images)
2022-12-01: The Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia (© trabantos/Shutterstock)