From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States. The breath-taking images were taken by Randy P. Martin, 30, of Portland, Oregon, who travelled hundreds of miles across America and documented the most diverse and beautiful settings along the way. For Randy, the past year has seen him undertake countless road trips, navigate his route with maps made from napkins - with the help of Google Earth, walk miles across fields of lava rock and wake at 3am to see sunrise at 14,000 feet
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AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
