Manhattan

The Late Show studio in Lower Manhattan

Tbilisi Kitten

A kitten in a ruined building in Tbilisi

Midan Tahrir

This is Midan Tahrir in downtown Cairo. The red building is the Egyptian Museum.

Galata Bridge

This bridge over the Golden Horn connects the heart of Istanbul proper with the former commercial district of Galata.

Dnieper at Zaporizhzhya

The Dnieper River at Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine, with part of the Dniproges Dam on the left

Tel Aviv Cats

Cats looking for food in Tel Aviv.

Seaside Mansion

Some rich person's seaside mansion near the Qala'at al-Bahrayn fortress outside Manama.

Krasnaya Sloboda

This is Krasnaya Sloboda, a Jewish village in northern Azerbaijan.

Branch Mouth

This is Branch Mouth near San Ignacio, where the Mopan and Macal join to form the Belize River.

Goats

These goats live at Abdaly Farms in northern Kuwait.

Lake Nasser

Erie, Pennsylvania

This is what I'm assuming is the industrial area of Erie, Pennsylvania as seen from Presque Isle State Park.

Kom Ombo

The temple of Sobek and Horus in Kom Ombo, Egypt

Near Sumela

The Pontic Mountains of northeastern Turkey, near Sumela

Tiberias Mosque

This is an old mosque in the Israeli city of Tiberias, by the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Khersones

These are the ruins of the Greek port of Khersones just outside Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. The cathedral in the background commemorates the baptism of Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev.

Skalholt

This church is at Skalholt, which I believe was the site of the first bishopric in Iceland, and definitely the leading ecclesiastical center for the south beginning in the 11th century. According to tradition, Iceland's last Catholic bishop was executed here in 1550 along with two of his sons when local Protestants were trying to figure out how they could be prevented from escaping until they could be sent to Denmark, and someone suggested that, "The earth will keep them best."

Absheron Peninsula

Today, this is the landscape of Azerbaijan's Absheron Peninsula, the legacy of the Soviet Union's oil industry.

Acre

The historic town of Acre, in northern Israel

Ras Rumman

Here a street in Ras Rumman, a Shi'ite neighborhood in Manama, is decorated for Ashura.