Execution Chamber, The Walls Penitentiary

(Huntsville, Texas)

Fly Lab, Caltech

(Pasadena, CA)

A human ear grows on the back of a nude mouse.

(Vacanti Lab, Boston, MA)

A drug courier is intercepted by U.S. Customs & Border Protection

(JFK Airport, New York)

A shot from the 'Stoning of Stephen.'

(Ouarzarzate, Morocco)

Scientists prepare the Endurance robot for its first mission.

(Lake Bonney, Antarctica)

A silverback gorilla watches a ranger.

(Virunga National Park, Congo)

Photo Coutesy of: National Geographic Television

Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

(Guantanamo Bay, Cuba)

Photo Coutesy of: Lincoln Else

A monk blesses the dig site before work begins.

(Yangon, Burma)

A caver descends.

(Sistema Cheve, Oaxaca, Mexico)

The elusive Spitfire.

(Duxford, England)

Astronaut Scott Kelly lands after a year in space.

(Baikonur, Kazakhstan)

Soldiers heading to Cambodia after President Nixon's announcement.

(Vietnam)

The Ohio National Guard advances on protesting students at Kent State.

(Kent, OH)

The researchers at the Jackson Laboratory search for precise genomic solutions to human diseases.

(Bangor, ME)

Forensic anthropologists conduct research at the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee.

(Knoxville, TN)