Performers dressed as Santa Claus from the Ministry of Fun Santa School in London, England (© Matt Dunham/AP Photo) - Bing Wallpaper on December 20, 2021

Bonfire to celebrate New Year's Eve in 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland (© Ragnar Th Sigurdsson/Alamy)

Westerheversand Lighthouse in Westerhever, Germany (© Sandra Bartocha/Minden Pictures)

Rue du Petit-Champlain at Lower Old Town (Basse-Ville), Quebec City (© Diego Grandi/Shutterstock)

Kjell Henriksen Observatory in Svalbard, Norway (© Vincent Fournier/Gallery Stock)

Snow buntings flock during a snowstorm in New York (© Marie Read/Minden Pictures)

Royal Pavilion Ice Rink in Brighton, England (© Chris Gorman/Getty Images)

Trees on the northern slope of Mount Khomyak in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine (© panaramka/Getty Images)

Holiday tree at Weissensee, a small lake near Ehrwald in Tyrol, Austria (© nagelestock/Alamy)

Two young male polar bears, Churchill, Manitoba (© Cheryl Ramalho/Getty Images)

Winter scene illuminated on the Palais de l'Isle in Annecy, Haute Savoie, France (© blickwinkel/Alamy)

Sunlight in the forest of Western Siberia, near the city of Raduzhny, Russia (© Leonid Ikan/Shutterstock)

Aurora borealis above the Brooks Range in Alaska (© Noppawat Tom Charoensinphon/Getty Images)

The December full moon seen through holiday lights (© Jesus Merida/Getty Images)

Toronto Christmas Market at the Distillery District (© robertharding/Alamy Stock Photo)

Star trail photography taken in Yellowknife (© Seong-won Jang/EyeEm/Getty Images)

The chapel and hermitage of Santa Justa in Cantabria, Spain (© Luis Miguel Martin/Getty Images)

American robin perched on a branch in Canada (© marcophotos/Getty Images)

Old Town and El Panecillo Hill in Quito, Ecuador (© Karol Kozlowski/plainpicture)

Wicker fields in Cañamares, Spain (© David Santiago Garcia/Alamy)

The shadow of Mount Everest over the western Himalayas in Nepal (© Kent Karvey/KH Films, Inc./Tandem Stills + Motion)

Arctic fox in Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway (© Andy Trowbridge/Minden Pictures)

Glowworms in Blue Mountains National Park, Australia (© Leelakajonkij/Getty Images)

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Vancouver Christmas Market, Jack Poole Plaza, Vancouver (© Michael Wheatley/Alamy Stock Photo)

An 1840 design for the Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage (© Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images)

Salzburg with Salzach river, Austria (© MacEaton/Alamy)

Mother cheetah and her cub in the Maasai Mara nature reserve, Kenya (© gudkovandrey/Adobe Stock)

Autumn leaves coated with frost (© sagarmanis/Getty Images)

Dall sheep rams at Polychrome Pass, Denali National Park, Alaska (© Patrick J. Endres/Getty Images)

Blue icebergs near Cuverville Island, Antarctica (© Mike Hill/Getty Images)