Paris People walk in the snow-covered Champs-Elysees in Paris after the snow fell over the French capital this week. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images) While snow has disrupted travel and closed schools across Europe this week, the white blanket has created some amazing scenes. Here are some of our favorite European landmarks covered in snow. MORE ON WEATHER.COM Weather 'Bucket List': Things to See Before You Die10 Shocking Snow Cities25 Dogs in Snow to Melt Your Heart ...

Take a high-speed camera into the Amazon rainforest, and you'll capture amazing things you can't see with the naked eye. That's exactly what the creators behind the "Smarter Every Day" YouTube channel discovered when they took a Phantom Miro camera into South America's massive jungle. One the moments that wowed the crew was captured in the video above, when they were able to film a butterfly leaping off a leaf at 2,000 frames per second. You can see more of...

An elephant attacks a camera trap installed by Aaranyak, a conservation group tracking tigers in India. (TCRI/Aaranyak ) Elephants really, really hate camera flashes. When conservation biologist Firoz Ahmed installs camera traps in Kaziranga National Park, in northeastern India's Assam state, he and his colleagues must return every day to check on the reinforced metal boxes. Often, the cameras have been torn down and trampled. Because the traps are installed in pairs to capture each side of a passing tiger,...

Two new videos capture frightening minutes after a Turkish plane was hit by lightning in mid-air. The Associated Press reports the Turkish Airlines plane had taken off from Istanbul late Thursday and was en route to Izmir when lightning struck, setting one of the engines on fire. (MORE: 15,000 Crocodiles Released from Farm) The video above shows the plane on fire, looking like a fireball streaking through the sky. It was shot by NTV television. The second video shows you...

(LOOK Die Bildagentur der Fotografen GmbH / Alamy) Check-in for Vegas Fun Sure, regular visitors have their favorites, but Vegas isn’t for loyalists. It’s for seekers of the hottest, the newest, the now. And lately, they want to be seen at the , where a massive chandelier conceals a three-story bar and casino cabanas overlook the Strip. So it’s no surprise that the attention-grabbing Cosmopolitan gets more check-ins on Foursquare than any other casino in Vegas. The social site, which...

You last saw Scotland's rolling countryside as the setting for the explosive final scenes of Skyfall, the latest James Bond flick. Now, the nation's new featuring a pair of shetland ponies in sweaters is swiftly becoming an internet sensation. Meet Fivla and Vitamin, the faces of VisitScotland's '' campaign. Fivla and Vitamin are internet sensations in their new tourism campaign. (cometoscotland.com) The shetland ponies are native to Scotland's with the same name. The sweaters aren't just any old fabric, either....

A scenice fall view of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Blue Ridge, Virginia. (iWitness weather user: Lilith) LYNCHBURG, Va. — Fewer visitors toured the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2012 and Superstorm Sandy and high gas prices may have played a role. The News and Advance of Lynchburg reports that visits dropped 1 percent from the previous year to the parkway's second-lowest level in nearly three decades. (More: ) That 1 percent decline translates to about 177,000 less travelers along the...

(Jupiterimages) The famous Taj-Mahal in India (Jupiterimages) This reflected rainbow looks almost enchanted. (Jupiterimages) Autumn trees reflected in lake (Art Wolfe) Mount Fuji reflected in Lake Motosu (photos.com) Lake Grasmere, Lake District, England (Jupiterimages) Ibis in lake (Digital Vision) Zebra drinking at waterhole, Etosha, Namibia (Hemera Technologies) Cloud reflecting off building, Ontario (Jupiterimages) Washington Monument and reflecting pool (Jupiterimages) Tiger lying in stream (Digital Vision) Palms at sunset, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (Jupiterimages) Sunset on a lake (comstock images) Desert rock...

(AP Photos) Replaced by a computer According to the Associated Press, millions of jobs around the world have been lost due to increasingly sophisticated technology. Read on to see which professions have been hardest hit by the advance of the machines. (AP Photos) Factory workers continue to be replaced by robots. (AP Photos) The librarian becomes increasingly rare as that job is taken by automated retrieval systems. (AP Photos) Sales and inventory are increasingly tracked through cloud computing. (AP Photos)...

In this photo released on Jan. 29, 2013, by Nazare Qualifica organization, surfer Garrett McNamara rides a wave off Praia do Norte beach in Nazare, Portugal, on Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) In a slice of the Atlantic Ocean he says is "known as a place of death, not of riding waves" according to the Time.com, pro surfer Garrett McNamara may have broken his own world record. Monday, January 28, in the waters off Nazare, Portugal, the Hawaiian surfer...

Renderings of the underwater hotel Deep Ocean Technology plans to build in Dubai. The Water Discus hotel in Dubai is intended to provide a luxury accommodation option for anyone who wants to settle down on the sea bed. First it was water villas in the Maldives, allowing guests a glimpse of reef life from above the surface. Now, hoteliers seem hellbent on luring us beneath the waves. Star Trek meets The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau in these computer-generated images...

Detroit, Mich. The wreck stretched an entire mile according to police. (Image: Associated Press) Blinding snow squalls passing through the Great Lakes Thursday created nightmarish chain reaction crashes near not one, but two major cities. The first massive crash happened Thursday morning on Interstate 75 south of Detroit, Michigan. The second played out on Interstate 70 about 10 miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana early Thursday afternoon. At least three people have been confirmed dead in the Michigan crash -- two...