Flip through some of the most compelling National Geographic covers from the last 50 years. See every issue since 1888 cover-to-cover with Nat Geo PLUS, subscribing members’ all-access pass to ...

This month’s National Geographic cover is a time-lapse image by Stephen Wilkes that captures America’s beauty in one of the most hard-to-reach places.

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter ... sticking close to thick cover, zealously guarding his privacy in a metropolis renowned ...

At National Geographic, where visual storytelling ... In February 1982 the magazine’s cover showed a camel train in front of the Pyramids at Giza. The image produced by the photographer was ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... from Stargate's central shaft, Kakuk covers his lights and stops. The faint green of daylight ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Outdoor photographer ... remote spot off the coast of Java. There to cover Indonesian surfer Dede Suryana (above ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A ... A Chinese reporter in Kenya covers the 2011 burning of 5.5 tons of smuggled ivory.

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... Its footprint would cover your dining room. Trying to glimpse its tippy top, or craning to ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963 ... and draped in a cover of skinny, stunted trees—it's part of the boreal forest that sweeps right ...