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What’s the “best” travel photograph? It all depends on perspective.

This is why we put together Matador photo galleries – photographic essays on travel subjects or places that incorporate multiple points of view, or the work of various photographers. These are some of the biggest works we’ve created, with some galleries viewed by more than half a million people and getting hundreds of comments

With the participatory nature of new media, oftentimes the most revealing work about a place or an element of travel is more effectively expressed by a group of people than a single individual.

Have an idea for a photo gallery? Please let us know!

A selection of standouts from the 2013 Nat Geo Traveler Photo Contest.
Some of the most creative bicycle designs you'll ever see.
23 of the weirdest, coolest, and most flannel-friendly houses built into nature.
Here’s a free world tour courtesy of Google Street View.
It was once believed that Los Gigantes marked the edge of the world.
The striking diversity of waves, waterfalls, lakes, and springs around the world.
15 places to connect with the non-physical world.
Follow us on Instagram and share your travel photos by tagging them #matadorn.
The bamboo-clad abstraction of a farmhouse is a modern addition to the rural landscape.
A celebration of the high places of the world, in photographs.
Taking stock of the exemplary photography published at Matador in 2012.
It's a gift to allow ourselves to be swept up in reflective contemplation.
The afternoons see the canyon fill with soft, golden light.
Lighthouses are monuments to our long-lived relationship to the oceans.
The planet's largest fish is known to be gentle with divers.
What doors does art open that a medium like photography can't access?
The Cold War-era bridge to Fehmarn could be blown up in case of invasion.
Some buildings and features are so well known they have become icons of place.
The dense Aokigahara forest was a popular suicide destination...
Some are eyesores, drawing vandalism. Others are shut up tight. But I’m drawn in.
Giant Crystal Cave in Mexico contains some of the largest crystals ever discovered.
Bungee jumping has seen rapid progression and pushing of boundaries.
Record-breakers, news-makers, and otherwise unusual libraries.