Ipole Iloro is a small town in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. Set within Ekiti’s hilly interior, the community is surrounded by forest, rocky slopes and agricultural land.

The Orkney Islands sit just off the northern coast of Scotland. This group of around seventy islands offers wide horizons, quiet roads, and coastlines shaped by wind and waves where visitors often arrive expecting rugged scenery and leave talking about the sense of space from the long beaches to the steep cliffs and sea stacks rising straight from the water. One striking example is the Old Man of Hoy, a tall sea stack that draws photographers and climbers alike.

Sullivan Bay, located on the eastern shore of Santiago Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, offers a landscape that feels almost otherworldly at first glance. Instead of lush greenery, visitors are greeted by wide stretches of hardened lava. These black, rippled fields tell a story written in fire, where molten rock once flowed freely before cooling into intricate patterns that can still be traced today.

Kimmirut is a small Inuit community on the southern coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, located beside the waters of Hudson Strait. Formerly known as Lake Harbour, the settlement sits among rocky hills, freshwater lakes, coastal inlets, and tundra. Its sheltered location gives it a close relationship with the surrounding sea, while the wider landscape contains exposed rock and low Arctic vegetation shaped by a cold, windy climate.

Enniskerry is a small village in County Wicklow, Ireland, set in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin. Its compact center is arranged around a triangular village green, with stone buildings, traditional shopfronts, cafés, and pubs surrounding the open space. The village is closely associated with the Powerscourt estate, whose entrance lies just beyond the center.