New Year Celebration, Thailand

Photograph by Mohd Ming

Park, United Kingdom

Photograph by Yi Hsien Lee

The River Tami near Pančevo, Vojvodina, Serbia

Photograph by Mihalj Peseki

Ipanema, Brazil

Photograph by Giovani Cordioli

Muckross Lake, Ireland

Photograph by Anthony Byrne

Astana, Kazakhstan

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig

Wildflowers, California

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart

In this picture from the early 1940s, travelers in California’s San Joaquin Valley gather owl’s clover and blue lupine in a field along Route 99. The photo originally accompanied a 1942 feature story on California’s abundant wildflowers.