From Photos of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, one of 42 photos. A view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1904. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the United States Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition. (Smithsonian Institution)
From Photos of the Week: Baobab Alley, Armed Mob, River Rescue, one of 35 photos. Emily Hicks (not pictured) of Charleston, South Carolina, holds her dog Murphy along the waterfront ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Charleston on September 4, 2019. (Randall Hill / Reuters)
From Photos: The Wreckage Left by Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas, one of 29 photos. An aerial view of damage caused by Hurricane Dorian is seen in Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island on September 4, 2019, in Great Abaco, Bahamas. (Scott Olson / Getty)
From A Photo Trip to Washington State, Dedicated to My Parents, one of 34 photos. The rolling hills of the Palouse, viewed from Steptoe Butte State Park in Washington state. (Justin Reznick Photography / Getty)
From Photos of the Week: Alpine Opera, Japanese Dunes, Weed Museum, one of 35 photos. A young Rohingya is seen during a rainstorm at the Nayapara refugee camp on August 21, 2019, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees said on August 21 that they did not want to return to Myanmar without their rights and citizenship, with repatriation set to start on August 22. August 25 marked the second anniversary of the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh after Myanmar’s military crackdown on the ethnic Muslim minority forced over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh from violence and torture. The United Nations has stated that it was a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. (Allison Joyce / Getty)
From The Photography of Margaret Bourke-White, one of 21 photos. Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for LIFE magazine, makes a precarious photo from one of the eagles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1934. (Oscar Graubner / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty)
From Surfing Teahupo'o, As Seen From Above and Below, one of 21 photos. Taumata Puhetini from Tahiti rides in the tube of a cresting wave, as seen from an underwater perspective, at Teahupo'o reef in Tahiti on August 15, 2019, during practice for for the Tahiti pro Trials. (Brian Bielmann / AFP / Getty)
From Photos: The Burning Amazon Rainforest, one of 25 photos. A laborer stares at a fire that spread to the farm he work on next to a highway in Nova Santa Helena municipality in northern Mato Grosso State, in the Amazon basin in Brazil, on August 23, 2019. (Joao Laet / AFP / Getty)
From Photos of the Week: Sky Glider, Ice Swimmer, Cave Basketball, one of 35 photos. A view of a mirror-finish Dodo sculpture, part of an art installation at Gobi Heaven in Inner Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, photographed on August 10, 2019, in Hanggin Rear Banner, China. (Zhe Ji / Getty)
From Photos: The Statue of Liberty, Mother of Exiles, one of 25 photos. The moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City on June 11, 2017, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn / Getty)
From A Look Back at Woodstock: Photos From 50 Years Ago, one of 35 photos. A wide-angle view of the of huge crowd facing the distant stage during the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in August of 1969. (John Dominis / The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty)
From Photos of the Week: Pikachu Outbreak, Dinosaur Crossing, Ducky Derby, one of 35 photos. A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region, in Achinsk, Russia, on August 5, 2019. Russian officials say powerful explosions at a military depot in Siberia left 12 people injured and one missing and forced over 16,500 people to leave their homes. (Dmitry Dub / AP)
From Therapy Dogs at Work, one of 21 photos. Young patient Isabelle Stadella hugs therapy dog Joca during a session at Hospital Infantil Sabará in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 18, 2013. (Nacho Doce / Reuters)
From Scenes From the 2019 Pan American Games, one of 29 photos. Colombia’s Isabella Gomez celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Women’s Surfing SUP final during the 2019 Pan American Games at Punta Rocas beach in Lima on August 4, 2019. (Ernesto Benavides / AFP / Getty)
From A Heatwave in Greenland, one of 16 photos. A large river of melting water flows on an ice sheet in western Greenland on August 1, 2019. (Caspar Haarløv, Into the Ice via AP)