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
An American man continues on his mission to document his journey around the globe by completing a world map tattoo on his back .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face .
This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .
A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .