A 40-page story in the July 1921 issue gave an in-depth look at Japan's culture and geography. In this picture, two women wash their hands before worshipping in the Buddhist temple of Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KIYOSHI SAKAMOTO, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A volunteer at Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania, lights one of the 3,500 candles that honor the Union soldiers who died during the Civil War battle in 1863. The ceremony occurs annually on Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MELFORD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Badlands National Park in South Dakota is made up of jagged and striped rock formations. Before it was seized by the U.S. government in the 1920s, the land was inhabited and seen as sacred by the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A couple celebrates their wedding at a Fourth of July parade in Atlanta, Georgia. The July 1988 issue, in which this picture originally appeared, featured an in-depth look at Atlanta as the "undisputed capital of the New South."
PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM RICHARDSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Vacationers barrel through water slides at a water park in Ein Gev, Israel. This was one of the more light-hearted pictures in a July 1985 story about ongoing conflict and violence in the country.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Two scientists stand next to lava and sparks spewing from Mount Etna, Italy. Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, with documented eruptions dating back to 1500 B.C.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CARSTEN PETER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the March 2018 issue looked at the devastating effects of lakes drying up due to climate change. Here, a cargo boat rests on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, upon which more than 10 million people rely for food, work, water, and transportation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BROWN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Before the desert sand swallowed them up, the walls around this farm in Mauritania measured four feet high. Overgrazing and deforestation, when added to the Sahel's drought, have led the desert to expand quickly, pushing people to more hospitable climes.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE MCCURRY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In Winnemucca, Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management rounds up wild horses using a variety of tools. More than half of all wild horses in America live in Nevada, and the BLM works to keep a balance between the wild herds and the surrounding ecosystem.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MELISSA FARLOW, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Puri, India, is home to the largest celebration of Jagannath Puri Rath Yatra, in which three gods are taken out of their temple and paraded in front of millions of people. The temple is so important to Puri that it accounts for roughly 80 percent of visitors to the small city.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RANDY OLSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
River rafters go tubing down the Ichetucknee River in Florida. This picture appeared in the July 1977 issue's cover story on preserving America's wild rivers.
A rare mothership cloud formation moves across Childress, Texas. The April 2004 issue featured a story that followed storm chasers throughout Tornado Alley in the middle of the U.S.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CARSTEN PETER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
The December 1995 issue's cover story profiled world-famous primatologist Jane Goodall. In this photo, she writes letters under a mosquito net in her home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In the Great Lameshur Bay, Virgin Islands, Dr. Richard Chesher uses a camera housed in a device called an OceanEye, devised by photographer Bates Littlehales—who took this photo. This picture appeared in an August 1971 story about Tektite II, an underwater laboratory.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
The sun lights up cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Ancestral Puebloans built the structures in the 12th century, and they wouldn't be rediscovered for more than 700 years.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MELISSA FARLOW, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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