Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier spans almost 100 square miles, and stands 200 feet above Lake Argentino. Scientists believe the glacier, one of dozens of ice fields in Patagonia's Los Glaciares National Park, is 18,000 years old.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER ESSICK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Jackie Kennedy and her five-year-old daughter Caroline kneel at the coffin of President John F. Kennedy after he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. An estimated 250,000 people paid their respects as the president lay in state at the U.S. Capitol for 21 hours.
PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE F. MOBLEY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the April 1983 issue, called "The Uncertain State of Puerto Rico," examined the debate over Puerto Rico's independence—a debate that continues today. In this photo, teenagers in the San Juan neighborhood of La Perla listen to music, accompanied by their dogs.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE MAZE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
At the Forest River Hutterite Colony in North Dakota, children pray in German after their evening meal. The Hutterites are a sect of Anabaptists, originally from Germany, who live communally.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
As a part of Worthington, Minnesota's King Turkey Day, held every September, dozens of turkeys parade down the town's main street. This picture originally appeared in the February 1976 issue, but the festival just observed its 82nd year in September 2021.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM BRANDENBURG, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A hula master holds hands with students on a beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. This photo was shot for a December 2002 story on the efforts of native Hawaiians to preserve their Polynesian heritage more than a century after the U.S. toppled the peaceful kingdom.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In this picture from the December 1960 issue, tourists gaze upon Central Park from the top of New York City's RCA Building—now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Central Park is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world, welcoming upwards of 40 million people a year.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
As dawn breaks in Jerusalem, hundreds of Jews gather at the Western Wall. As one of Judaism's holiest sites, worshippers from all over the world make pilgrimages here to pray and leave notes to God that they place in the cracks in the wall.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES STANFIELD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A bartender serves up a pint of stout at a pub in Brodick, Arran Island, Scotland. The island of Arran, located off the west coast of Scotland, is home to fewer than 5,000 people, and was the subject of a story in the July 1965 issue.
PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Two men observe a prized long-tailed rooster on Shikoku Island, Japan. On the left is the rooster's breeder, and to the right is avian physiologist Frank X. Ogasawara, who received a grant to study the birds and wrote about his findings in the December 1970 issue.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EIJI MIYAZAWA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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