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PIAZZA NAVONA / PANTHEON — ROME

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Piazza Navona and the Pantheon are two of the oldest footprints in Rome, Italy, seen here together in the historic center of the city. Piazza Navona’s elongated oval traces the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, an 86 CE athletics arena whose seating tiers were later built over by medieval houses, locking its curve permanently into the city plan. Unlike the gladiatorial spectacles of the nearby Colosseum, this stadium hosted Greek-style athletics — such as foot races, wrestling, and long jump — making it one of the few permanent venues of its kind in the Roman world. The Pantheon, visible in the second frame, was completed under Hadrian around 126 CE and remains the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Between the two structures, a tangle of narrow medieval streets fills the space left by two enduring landmarks.

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Chichén Itzá, one of the great Maya cities, thrived in Mexico’s Yucatán region from roughly AD 600 to 1200. Visible in the first frame is its Great Ball Court — at 168 by 70 meters (551 by 230 feet), it is the largest and best-preserved in Mesoamerica. With its 8-meter (26-foot) walls carved with panels depicting the ballgame’s ritual stakes, including one player shown decapitated. Historians still debate whether it was the winning or losing side who paid that price. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the ruins draw nearly 10 million visitors a year.

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Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir in central Missouri that was created by the damming the Osage River. It has a surface area of more than 54,000 acres (220 square km) and at least 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline. The Village of the Four Seasons, shown here at center, is home to about 2,200 residents and a popular tourist destination.

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Spread across 80 acres of Arizona desert, the Pima Air & Space Museum holds more than 400 retired aircraft, including a Boeing VC-137B that carried Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy as Air Force One before its retirement in 1998. Swipe to see a detailed Overview of the plane.

Air Force One rarely changes, which makes recent news notable: a $400M Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar entered service as the newest one this month, only to be pulled from service weeks later for upgrades. It marks just the third generational change to the fleet since the jet era began, the latest turn in the story of the select aircraft that carry the sitting US president.

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The Grand Prismatic Spring — located in Teton County, Wyoming, inside Yellowstone National Park — is the largest hot spring in the United States and the third largest in the world. The spring is approximately 370 feet (110 m) in diameter, 160 feet (50 m) deep, and discharges an estimated 560 gallons (2,100 L) of water per minute. Its vivid colors are caused by layers of microorganisms that live around the edges of its mineral-rich water.

A video circulating this week showed two visitors straying off the boardwalk to reach the spring’s edge, risking serious burns from water that can exceed 160°F (70°C) beneath a thin, deceptive crust — a danger that has proven fatal for other Yellowstone visitors who strayed from the designated walkways.

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