Last year Kien Lam quit his job in San Francisco, grabbed his camera and set off on an incredible journey through 17 countries over 343 days, resulting in 6237 photographs.  Lam put together this amazing time-lapse video of many of the places he saw during his travels.
 

 For more information about Michael König, please visit his website at:  http://www.koenigm.com/  

Video story (courtesy of Michael König):
 

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 

28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 
2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. 
All credit goes to them.