2023-12-31: Daiichi Tadami River Bridge, Fukushima prefecture, Japan (© DoctorEgg/Getty Images)
2023-12-30: Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands (© George Pachantouris/Getty Images)
2023-12-29: Humpback whale, Disko Bay, Greenland (© Paul Souders/DanitaDelimont.com)
2023-12-28: Kirkjufell, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland (© Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost/Getty Images)
2023-12-27: Winter sunrise in Dedham, Colchester, England (© George W Johnson/Getty Images)
2023-12-26: Caribou running in snow, Alaska (© Michael Quinton/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-25: Town Hall Square, Tartu, Estonia (© Westend61/Getty Images)
2023-12-24: Chinstrap penguins, South Sandwich Islands, South Atlantic Ocean (© Jan Vermeer/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-23: Ljubljana, Slovenia (© kasto80/Getty images)
2023-12-22: Avenue of birch trees near Uffing am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany (© Reinhard Schmid/Huber/eStock Photo)
2023-12-21: Village in Val Gardena at Christmas, Dolomites, Italy (© Ingus Kruklitis/Getty Images)
2023-12-20: Christmas tree in Castle Square, Old Town, Warsaw, Poland (© Panther Media GmbH/Alamy)
2023-12-19: Capitol Reef National Park, Utah (© Jeff Clay/Tandem Stills + Motion)
2023-12-18: Bohemian waxwings perched on a branch, Canada (© Jim Cumming/Shutterstock)
2023-12-17: Guild houses of Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium (© Richard Taylor/Sime/eStock Photo)
2023-12-16: SantaPark in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland (© lukutin77/Getty Images)
2023-12-15: Boreal owl, Saskatchewan, Canada (© Nick Saunders/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-14: Traditional rorbu houses, Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, Norway (© Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld/Getty Images)
2023-12-13: Poinsettias (© Yarygin/Getty Images)
2023-12-12: Winter at Huangshan, China (© Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock)
2023-12-11: Last rays of sun on a group of dunes, Sahara, Algeria (© AWL Images/DanitaDelimont.com)
2023-12-10: Guanacos in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina (© Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-09: La Rocque Harbour, St. Clement, Island of Jersey (© Reinhard Schmid/Huber/eStock Photo)
2023-12-08: USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii (© Douglas Peebles Photography/Alamy)
2023-12-07: The Globe of Science and Innovation building, Meyrin, Switzerland (© Deyan Baric/Alamy)
2023-12-06: Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles, Bavarian Alps, Germany (© Harald Nachtmann/Getty Images)
2023-12-05: A mother cheetah and her cubs in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (© Scott Davis/Tandem Stills + Motion)
2023-12-04: Sandstone rock formations, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona (© Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-03: North Gate of Angkor Thom, Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia (© Amazing Travel Lifestyle/Shutterstock)
2023-12-02: Iceberg in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (© Michel Roggo/Minden Pictures)
2023-12-01: The Storr, a rock outcrop on the Isle of Skye, Scotland (© Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)