Have you ever wanted to meander between two spiral galaxies, or follow in the footsteps of a comet? Now visitors to…

Last month, I took the Nikon D810 out on the Sierra High Route — one of the toughest adventures around. It got…

The area in southern Spain known as mar del plástico is a landscape dominated by vast stretches of greenhouse farms.…

Railroad tracks have been a constant presence in the ever-changing American landscape since the 1800s. Whether…

New York is an epicenter of commerce and culture. But even busy Manhattanites need recreation to sooth their nerves.…

Photographer Julian Calverley recently got a job in Faroe Islands, in the Kingdom of Denmark. He used the frequent…

Gowanus is a Brooklyn neighborhood long known for its polluted canal and not-so-desirable industrial vibe. But like…

Artist H.R. Giger was a master at twisting at twisting the biological and the mechanical, and even when he focused…

Taking pictures is a great excuse to explore your surroundings, even if it's a place you've lived all your life. In…

One of the most common subjects in the history of American photography is the West. It's a landscape fraught with…

If you've ever been to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, you know it's one of the most dramatic museum locations…

The rest areas were always my favorite parts of road trips. There was room to walk around and, somewhere, a vending…

For some, coal mining conjures images of quaint Appalachian towns. In parts of Germany, where some of the world's…

You might think you are looking at an ice cave in some remote location, or the interior of a living organism. But…

The most famous coal seam fire smolders underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, but thousands of such underground fires…

Crude oil—or petroleum—has been used since ancient times for several purposes, mostly for dimly lighting up…

Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé spends hours looking for the right place, the right light and the right…

A huge pyramid in the middle of nowhere tracking the end of the world on radar. An abstract geometric shape beneath…

French engineers have been experimenting with a technique that could redirect seismic energy away from structures…

These optical targets in the Arizona desert were built for calibrating the cameras of a spy satellite network called…