Bright and atmospheric photographs taken finalists magazine Smithsonian, which is about to come to an end. In this compilation includes the best footage from the "Nature", "People", "Journey", "America", "Altered Images".

Finalist in the category "Nature". Bear hunts salmon. 

The human body is not fit to live over 120 years. Such restrictions it imposes the genetic code that determines how many times our cells can divide.

Agree, few of us would be so lucky, lucky to be in that space and see our home planet in all its glory. However, thanks to satellite imagery we can albeit briefly, but the feel of space explorers. Gathered here is a collection of unique pictures for 2013 made satellites.

Great Barrier Reef in Australia, April 22, 2013:

People settled in the caves since ancient times. The caves were ideally suited for shelter from natural disasters and wild animals. Now the unique natural landscape of the entire gaining more popularity among architects worldwide that design is very impressive spaces inside the caves. I suggest you take a look at the interesting collection of such architectural decisions.

Metro Station in Stockholm

Surely you would be hard to name a comfortable dwelling, which is a few meters wide. Most of these facilities are made in order to refute the myth that the meager dimensions can be applied to architecture. I suggest you look at the most famous narrow houses in the world.

On the one hand Keret House in Warsaw, built in 2012 - a residential house, and the other - an art project by Polish architect Jakub Szczesny. The first inhabitant of a two-story house was an Israeli writer Etgar Keret, after which it got its name. This is one of the main contenders for the title of the narrowest house in the world. Its minimum width of 90 inches and a maximum - 1.5 meters. It has one bedroom where you want to climb the stairs, and instead of a window equipped with a roof made of transparent plastic.

I bring to your attention a selection of great photos that have been made this year. I am sure that none of them will not leave you indifferent.

Sometimes it is hard to believe that such wonderful places exist on our planet, but nature can be more surreal than any fiction.It may seem that these landscapes - just artists' imagination, but they are very real and attracts crowds of tourists from all over the world.

In the rainy season in Bolivia Salar Bottom covered with a thin layer of water, it turns out that's such a surreal look.

I suggest you look at how the human stupidity and curiosity is killing people common sense and instinct for self-preservation.These photos are a direct confirmation.

And if you close the mouth?

Today we want to show you a selection of the world's largest gold-mining. Now the earth is only about 50 000 tons of gold and gold mining remains a very profitable business. This list contains only private mines.

Grasberg
Location: Papua, Indonesia
Production volume in 2001: 40,936,699 g
Size: 213,431 ha of
active miners: reeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Mining Type: pit and underground mining
(Freeport-McMoRan)

Today we offer you a look at the Top 10 most expensive buildings in the world. Naturally, we have included only the top ten of the art facility, since it does not even try to estimate the cost of facilities such as the Great Wall of China, the Kremlin and the Pyramids of Giza.

Window Washers - a very dangerous profession accessible to everybody. Since the one must have courage and not be afraid of heights.
Have a look at workers in different cities around the world.

 Interesting project Eugenia Dobrovinsky.