Farther from a continental landfall than any other group of islands on earth, the twelve Marquesas jut out of the open Pacific just south of the equator, shrouded in a constant cloud cover.
Nogales is a border city in Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona, directly adjoining Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Its setting in the Santa Cruz River Valley gives the city a distinctive landscape of rolling hills, desert vegetation, and mountain ranges. As one of the principal border crossings between Arizona and Mexico, Nogales has long served as a center for trade, transportation, and cross-border commerce.
Porto Venere is a small coastal town on the Ligurian Sea in eastern Liguria, set on a rocky peninsula at the entrance to the Gulf of La Spezia. Its waterfront is lined with brightly colored houses, narrow lanes, and a small harbor, while steep cliffs rise behind the historic center. Offshore, the islands of Palmaria, Tino, and Tinetto form part of the same protected coastal landscape.