Submitted by Romana Metzger / UGC

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Wow! We love all the stunning photos from our readers this week, from beaches in the Dominican Republic and Hilton Head, S.C., to a scenic hotel alongside the Dead Sea to gorgeous flowers in the Netherlands.  

Scroll through this impressive set of images and vote for your favorite at the bottom. 

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Sunrise. Hilton Head, S.C.

Submitted by Kelli Russell / UGC

The Kempinski hotel where I stayed at the Dead Sea had amazing sunsets and great color schemes.

Submitted by Alison Arouth / UGC

The Limestone Cliffs in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

Submitted by MINDY SCHONBERG / UGC

Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands

Submitted by Anna Tymczak Rzemieniuk / UGC

Star trails by the LaDue Reservoir in Ohio

Submitted by Mitchell Morgan / UGC

View of Machu Picchu

Submitted by Patti AustinMurray / UGC

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Submitted by Nadine Hamad / UGC

Keukenhof Gardens, Holland - May, 2012

Submitted by Sara Mesterhazy / UGC

Lake Tahoe sunset

Submitted by Mike Cloutier / UGC

Snowy egret: Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Fla.

Submitted by Tania Nguyen / UGC

Himalayas

Submitted by Brenda Lucy / UGC

Morning snow melt

Submitted by Alan Christensen / UGC

Silver Mine, Silver Creek, Utah

Submitted by Saskia Markowski / UGC

Flamingos on Renaissance Private Island, Aruba

Submitted by Melba Hensel / UGC

Iguazu Falls, Argentina-Brazil

Submitted by Dallas Smith / UGC

Cabo San Lucas

Submitted by Marco Alba / UGC

Horse at Monte Grande, Argentina

Submitted by Heather Laabs / UGC

On top of the Notre Dame, Paris

Submitted by Cheryl Shullick / UGC

Burano canal, Venice, Italy

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Submitted by Anna Tymczak Rzemieniuk / UGC

Horseshoe Bend, Ariz.

Our readers get around. This week's photo gallery features stunning settings from rivers, lakes and waterfalls to photogenic safari animals to amazing architecture.

Scroll through this impressive set of images and vote for your favorite at the bottom.

Submitted by Jimmy Pham / UGC

Impala, Chobe, Botswana

Submitted by Matthew Lynch / UGC

Lake Menindee Sunset, Menindee, Outback Australia

Submitted by Nancy Bragg / UGC

Lion cub in Masai Mara National Park, Kenya

Submitted by Dave Dudley / UGC

Vernal Falls In Yosemite, Calif.

Submitted by Tony Boyd / UGC

Underwater friend, Maui, Hawaii

Submitted by Jon Sandstrom / UGC

Cliffs near San Gregorio, Calif.

Submitted by Colton Lindelof / UGC

Baby monkey, Monkey Forest, Bali, Indonesia

Submitted by Alyssa Bowie / UGC

Chimney Pond and the Knife's Edge of Mount Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine.

Submitted by Lynn Holladay / UGC

Hot air balloon, high above the Serengeti

Submitted by Katie Earley / UGC

Peyto Lake, Banff National Park

Submitted by Teddy Fox / UGC

Leopard, Hoedspruit, South Africa

Submitted by Gina Kmito / UGC

Sandwich, New Hampshire

Submitted by Sheila Weckman / UGC

Elk, Rocky Mountain National Park

Submitted by Ken Murray / UGC

Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Mont.

Submitted by Jennifer Deter / UGC

Torres Del Paine, Patagonia, Chile

Submitted by Susan Stone / UGC

Peaceful Mediterranean shore

Submitted by Karthik Suresh / UGC

Qutb Minar, New Delhi, India

Submitted by John Franz / UGC

Pine Flat Reservoir after spring storm

Submitted by Anupam Tantri / UGC

Marine Iguana, Galapagos Islands

Submitted by Kelsey Hendricks / UGC

Meroe pyramids, Sudan

Submitted by Ann Mellema / UGC

Green Anole, Naples Botanical Garden, Fla.

Submitted by Juliana Miller / UGC

Black sand beach, Vik, Iceland

Submitted by Robert Lougee / UGC

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

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Submitted by Jon Sandstrom / UGC

Cliffs near San Gregorio, Calif., a community in the San Francisco Bay area.

Two days after Christmas last year, Jon Sandstrom was up early, heading south with his kids to hunt for agates (a type of gemstone) near Pescadero, Calif. He captured this beautiful scene en route.

"I took the shot in the morning just as the sun was coming up over the coastal mountains," he told TODAY.com.

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More photos:

• Paddle boarding Lake McDonald
• Impala spotted in Botswana
• Crater Lake in winter

Submitted by James Pham / UGC

Impala, Chobe, Botswana

James Pham spotted this beautiful impala while on a safari in Botswana's Chobe National Park.

Pham told TODAY.com that he took the picture at 6 a.m. on an early-morning game drive. "It was the birthing time of year, so tons of impala and springbok babies were around, testing out their spindly new legs, bounding and leaping," he said.

Still, it wasn't easy to capture them on camera. "Taking photos of animals is frustratingly challenging because they never seem to do what you want or expect them to do," he said. "This shot turned out perfect because the impala looked at me dead on."

Pham writes about his travels and posts photos on his website fly, Icarus, fly.

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More photos:

• Crater Lake in winter
• Famous Victoria Falls
• Snorkeling in the Bahamas

Submitted by Katie Cornett / UGC

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Katie Cornett was on a seven-day solo trip from Santa Monica, Calif. up coastal Highway 1 and into Oregon when she took this photo of Crater Lake in November 2011.

"The winter sky and the water were the most incredible shade of blue, especially in contrast to the fresh white snow," Cornett told TODAY.com. "I would have liked to stay all day, but at 27 degrees Fahrenheit at the viewpoint, I snapped a few pictures and scurried back to my car through the snow.

"There is something about a body of water in the winter, surrounded by snow, that is quite peaceful and eerily calm," Cornett added.

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More photos:

• Famous Victoria Falls
• Snorkeling in the Bahamas
• Sun sets the Golden Gate Bridge aglow

Submitted by Jim Perkins / UGC

Bryce Canyon, Utah

Our readers get around. This week's photo gallery features the famous Victoria Falls, snorkeling in the Bahamas and a colorful crab on the Galapagos Islands, among other stunning settings.

Scroll through this impressive set of images and vote for your favorite at the bottom.

Submitted by William Wright / UGC

Samburu, Kenya

Submitted by Leslie Wilcox / UGC

Anse Cafard Memorial, Martinique

Submitted by Martin Weil / UGC

Elephants, Savute Channel, Botswana

Submitted by Megan Allene Smith / UGC

Jökulsárlón, Iceland

Submitted by Alison Robertson / UGC

Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa

Tod Peterson / UGC

"Sally Lightfoot" crab, Galapagos Islands

Submitted by Sarah Lynch / UGC

Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia

Adam Jewell / UGC

Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah

Submitted by Jana Ireijo / UGC

Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City

Submitted by Bernadine Herrera / UGC

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

Submitted by Rose Dowdell Brownm / UGC

2012 Venice Carnevale

Submitted by Jill Davidson / UGC

Oregon coast

Submitted by Katie Cornett / UGC

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Submitted by Brett Coonrod / UGC

Eagle Beach, Aruba

Submitted by Jean Chisser / UGC

Exuma Islands, Bahamas

Submitted by Lisa Cavazos / UGC

Beach huts at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, UK

Submitted by Ryan Bricker / UGC

Morning sunrise in Masai Mara, Kenya.

Submitted by Holly Borstad / UGC

Saarbrucken, Germany

Submitted by Jared Bombaci / UGC

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

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Submitted by Jared Bombaci / UGC

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Jared Bombaci took this photo of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe last October.

"It was a very bright day, which made the colors in the rocks look almost fake, although intermittent cloud cover made getting the right exposure tough," Bombaci told TODAY.com.

He spent the day wading around tidal pools on the Zambia border of the falls. Bombaci travels extensively in Africa for work and spends much of his free time taking photos.

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More photos:

• Snorkeling in the Bahamas
• Sun sets the Golden Gate Bridge aglow
• Beach at Whytecliff park

Submitted by Jean Chisser / UGC

Snorkeling off the Exuma Islands in the Bahamas.

Jean Chisser and her husband spent part of March snorkeling off the Exuma islands in the Bahamas. On the second day of their trip, the couple happened upon Pirate Trap beach, where they found a great snorkeling spot as well as a beautiful beach.

"The day was one of those 'perfect' days (like most in the Exumas) with blue skies and white puffy clouds," Chisser told TODAY.com. "The sun was still pretty high in the sky and helped make the beautiful aqua water shine."

Chisser used a fish-eye lens to curve the image of her husband, Skip, snorkeling. 

Chisser is a semi-professional photographer, and more of her photos are featured on her website.

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• Sun sets the Golden Gate Bridge aglow
• Beach at Whytecliff park
• Great Blue Heron sighting

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The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge appears above the evening fog as the suns sets on the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, Calif.

When the Golden Gate Bridge opened on May 28, 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle called it a $35 million dollar steel harp. Its 4,200-foot-long suspension span was the longest in the world, not surpassed until 1964.

Nowadays it's a beloved icon for tourists and locals alike, with an average of 110,000 vehicles passing over it each day. We've rounded up some of the bridge's best moments in this slideshow.

Story: Golden Gate Bridge links lovers for a lifetime

Numerous events and tributes are marking the bridge's 75th anniversary. When the bridge was completed, Chief Engineer Joseph P. Strauss wrote two poems, one of which starts:

At last the mighty task is done;
Resplendent in the western sun
The Bridge looms mountain high;
Its titan piers grip ocean floor,
Its great steel arms link shore with shore,
Its towers pierce the sky.

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Slideshow: The Golden Gate Bridge

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San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge turns 75 this May.

Launch slideshow

More photos:

• Beach at Whytecliff park
• Great Blue Heron sighting
• Desert flower blooms

Submitted by Biba Bro / UGC

Springtime in Tuscon, Ariz.

Biba Bro captured this springtime scene recently in Tucson, Ariz.

She spent the day "just walking around, looking for cacti flowers that are blooming during this time of the year," Bro told TODAY.com.

You can learn more about desert wildflowers at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson.

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More photos:

• Beach at Whytecliff park
• Great Blue Heron sighting
• Storm batters the Maine coast
• It's a Snap: Travel photos from around the world
  

Gretchen Griswold / UGC

Snow-covered black spruce north of the Yukon, Alaska.

Gretchen Griswold, of San Diego, Calif., recently decided to fulfill her dream of seeing the aurora borealis, the glow of stars and color that is otherwise known as the northern lights. She traveled to Alaska in March with her sister-in-law and encountered this snow-covered landscape north of the Yukon.

PhotoBlog: Northern lights make for must-see TV

"We hired a guide to take us up to the Arctic Circle and the drive took us through ghostly landscapes of frozen trees and tundra," Griswold told TODAY.com. "As we drove, I was awed by the vista presented by these trees and asked the guide to pull off the road so we could walk (or really, stomp through knee-deep snow) a little so we could get a better vantage point." 

Griswold said it was -23 degrees, with an estimated -20 degree wind chill, when she took the photo. "It was a quick drill to capture the scene," she said. 

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More photos:

• Sky lights go wild, north and south
• The beach at Whytecliff park
• Great Blue Heron sighting
• Storm batters the Maine coast

Submitted by Ray Snook / UGC

Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ray Snook captured this idyllic scene at Whytecliff Park in West Vancouver, British Columbia, in February.

Snook had visited the park the day before, but it was pouring rain during high tide.

"Conditions improved the next afternoon with low tide, clear skies and just enough white clouds to fill the frame," Snook told TODAY.com. "I took pictures along the beach, and from the cliffs above the beach of snow-covered mountains."

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More photos:

• Great Blue Heron sighting
• Storm batters the Maine coast
• A snow-draped castle