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A pair of Pacific banana slugs are seen at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Eatonville, Washington.

The United Arab Emirates has an impressive but largely lost tradition of mud construction. For the Louvre Abu Dhabi, architect Jean Nouvel’s design was inspired by moucharaby latticework screens, which protect interiors from direct sunlight and provide natural ventilation. This massive moucharaby creates what’s been called a rain of light over the museum.

Each year of the lunisolar calendar is represented by one of 12 animals, called the Chinese Zodiac, which are thought to determine the personalities of people born that year. They are typically incorporated into festivities—like these tiger-themed decorations in Singapore.

Crowds dance at Ferropolis, a former open pit coal mine near the city of Gräfenhainichen in Germany that was turned into an open air museum and concert venue. Towering over the crowds illuminated in crimson is Gemini, an old coal excavator that's no longer in use. This is just one example of an industrial site reimagined for public use.

For more than 40 years, this remote forest in Colombia was kept inaccessible to the outside world by a small group of armed guerrillas. In 2017, the forest was reopened after a peace deal was signed.

Pittsfield, the largest city and the county seat of Massachusetts’ Berkshire County, bookends the first completed section of the High Road trail.