Women participate in a yoga class on the beach of Bay Head, New Jersey. A story in the August 2004 issue traveled the 127 miles of beaches that make up the Jersey Shore, documenting all kinds of colorful characters along the way.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AMY TOENSING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the February 2017 issue documented the lives of widows across the world. Here, lifelong friends walk arm in arm, both of them having lost their husbands in the Bosnian war in the mid-1990s.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AMY TOENSING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Spain's Costa Brava teems with millions of tourists every summer. This picture originally appeared in a January 1984 story about Catalonia, a region in northeast Spain.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE MAZE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Women dressed in traditional garb dance near Khor Virap Monastery. The performance was part of a celebration recognizing 1,700 years since the baptism of King Tiridates III, which made Armenia the world's first Christian nation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDRA AVAKIAN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Teammates on a synchronized swimming team practice in a pool in Laguna Hills, California. They're both in their sixties—this photo ran in a November 1997 story about aging.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A kid locks eyes with a brown bear in Yellowstone National Park. This picture originally appeared in a July 1966 story called, "Today and Tomorrow in Our National Parks."
PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the March 1997 issue explored "the magic of paper." In this picture, paper streamers explode over revelers at the Feast of San Paolo in Palazzolo Acreide, Italy.
PHOTOGRAPH BY SISSE BRIMBERG, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Peruvian scientists found fossils of giant penguins on this desert beach in Paracas, Peru. The discoveries, documented in the February 2008 issue, suggest that the birds would have been five feet tall and tolerant of a hot climate.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIA A. CLARKE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION