Snow blankets parts of boats docked on the Rhine near Lahn, Germany. Besides gorgeous scenery, the Rhine presents an arresting overview of a busy working river connected by canals and tributaries to most of Europe.

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Snow blankets parts of boats docked on the Rhine
near Lahn, Germany. Besides gorgeous scenery, the
Rhine presents an arresting overview of a busy
working river connected by canals and tributaries
to most of Europe.
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Gondolas ply the waters of Venice's Grand Canal,
one of Italy's most popular tourist attractions.
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People walk past a bakery in the Montmartre
district on an October day in Paris.
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Tour guide Mario Rojas looks over an edge of "the
abyss," 9,094 feet high, in Canaima National Park
in Venezuela's Gran Sabana region. The mesas
inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, "The
Lost World," in which dinosaurs live on an
isolated plateau in the Amazon.
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Snow-covered trees provide a stark contrast to
the fall foliage below in this scene from October
at Cannon Mountain in Franconia, N.H.
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People relax in the Blue Lagoon spa in Grindavik,
Iceland. The Blue Lagoon was created in the
mid-1970s, when some communities on Iceland's
Reykjanes peninsula, in the southwestern part of
the island, sought to harness heat generated by a
geothermal area.
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Rafters take a break from the rapids at Redwall
Cavern in Marble Canyon near Grand Canyon
National Park, Ariz. The popular spot along the
Colorado Rover is about 33 miles from Lee's
Ferry.
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The wonders of Angkor Wat, the Khmer empire-built
temple, lie at the end of a rainbow in northwest
Cambodia. The world heritage site, built in the
12th century, is among more than 100 Buddhist and
Hindu temples in the area that draw
ever-increasing numbers of tourists, helping to
rebuild the impoverished nation's economy.
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Sand dunes stretch into the distance on the
northern edge of the Sahara desert at al-Ramla in
western Libya. Since the government of Moammar
Gadhafi began its campaign to open its doors to
the outside world, tourists are increasingly
visiting Libya.
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New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, is seen at
dusk.
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An iceberg gets a pinkish halo in the sunset in
Ilulissat fjord, on Greenland's western coast.
Located 155 miles north of the Arctic Circle,
Ilulissat is home to 5,000 people, most of whom
live off of shrimp and halibut fishing as well as
the all-important tourism industry. Some 15,000
tourists visit the town each year, or about half
of all those who visit Greenland.
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A tourist looks out on the fog-shrouded valley
below the Baeknyeong-Sa temple in Gangjin
province in southwestern South Korea. South Korea
is making a big effort to attract tourism.
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The sun sets as visitors to the observation deck
of the Empire State Building look south over the
Manhattan skyline in New York City.
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Kashmiri vegetable sellers gather at a floating
market on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer
capital of Jammu and Kashmir state. Srinagar was
once a popular destination for international and
domestic tourists, attracting 720,000 tourists a
year to the "Switzerland of the East." These
days, a 13-year revolt against Indian rule by
Muslim militants has turned Kashmir into one of
the world's most heavily militarized zones.
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Bicyclists travel through a narrow street in the
old town of Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.
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Two people travel across the Uyuni salt flat
about 300 miles south of La Paz, Bolivia.
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A diver swims with stingrays off Cayman Brac in
the Cayman Islands.
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A guide shows an ancient castle in Nalut in
western Libya. Built into a rocky peak, the
800-year-old castle features seven stories of
caves where people stored food to protect it from
raiding enemies.
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Peruvian people work at the Maras saltern. The
saltern is considered an Incaic "hidden
treasure," offering historical and natural beauty
similar to the world-recognized Machu Picchu
complex.
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A couple stands in the "Door of No Return" on
Goree Island off Senegal. The door in the
courtyard of a centuries-old slave house is the
passage that captured Africans walked through
before boarding ships that carried them into
slavery.
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The sun sets over Mawenzi Peak on Mount
Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's mystique
beckons climbers of all skill levels because,
though it's not a technical climb, it's the
highest mountain in Africa at 19,340 feet.
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Tenacious tourists brave a sandstorm at the Taj
Mahal in Agra, India, during a June visit.
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