Slide 15 of 31: Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula is a wild stretch of glaciers, geyser fields and volcanoes (many of them actively spitting and spouting) on the country’s eastern coast. The former Soviet military area is also home to tens of thousands of Kamchatka brown bears. Many live in the protected Kronotsky Reserve, where they fish for salmon from the shores of Lake Kurile, overlooked by the Ilyinsky volcano.