It’s the post (gram?) seen around the world. (I guess you could say the same about every blog post, but you know what we mean.) Photographer/professional journeyer Murad Osman probably has A LOT more Instagram followers than he did at the beginning of the week. If you missed them, Osman’s travel photos feature his girlfriend, Nataly Zakharova, leading him by the hand from Venice to Singapore, Berlin to Moscow, and everywhere in between. The pictures, which combine wanderlust, buildings, exotic locales, and Zakharova’s sartorial flair, soon went viral and, needless to say, have already generated a load of parodies on Reddit.

The couple are seen advancing toward the Brandenburg Gate, gondoling through Venice, and navigating Red Square, among encountering many more sights and vistas. The architecture, just like IRL, recedes into the background, an avatar that suggests “place” and substantiates the cultural and geographical transition from city to city (or gram to gram). Click through to see more!

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Having survived the great Nor’Easter of 2013 (otherwise not known as “Nemo”), and now with the near foot-yield of snowfall virtually erased by rain, we’re already feeling a little nostalgic for the powdery stuff. (True, had we been just that much more north and east, we’d probably be singing a different tune.) These photos of Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, for instance, have us hoping for many more canonical blizzards, sled rides, and snowmen.

The route, which links the Tateyama and Omachi municipalities, is a tourist destination. Where the road passes through the Hida Mountains, monolithic walls of packed snow bound either side of the motorway. The 20-meter-high corridor was sculpted using snowblowers and backhoe. The path was completed in 1981 and continues to draw tourists, actually only tourists—the road only services charter buses of gawking visitors—to this day. Click through for more photos!

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