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If winter’s gray has got you down, add a splash of color to your horizons with these fifteen brilliant landscapes from around the world.

CNN has gone to the far reaches of this beautiful planet seeking out the strangest and most striking colors geology and human handiwork has to offer.

Future travel plans? Whether a yes or no, the possibilities are enchanting.

Caño Cristales River, Colombia

Called “The Liquid Rainbow” and “The River of Five Colors,” Colombia’s Caño Cristales River puts on a splashy show each year between July and November. An eruption of colorful algae brings a predominantly blood red color to the river when the water levels are right. Guides offer tours of the area, which is part of the national park Sierra de La Macarena in the department of Meta.

Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China

The mirrorlike pools of Yuanyang County’s flooded rice terraces in China’s Yunnan province allow for an array of intense visual effects. Ancestors of the Hani people crafted the terraces by hand more than 1,000 years ago to irrigate the red rice crop. The terraces change with the seasons; in the winter and spring, flooded paddies create reflective pools, which give way to rippling ribbons of bold green in the summer growing season.

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A delight for the vicarious traveler.

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