Photo of the Day

The moon, lit by the coming sunrise, reflects in the icy waters around Antarctica. The continent is the coldest, windiest, driest, and darkest place on Earth.

Doves, lions, and elephants compete for space at a watering hole during the dry season in Chobe National Park, Botswana. Normally, elephants would avoid such proximity to lions, but as the March 2000 story stated, "water is more vital than caution."

Whilst waiting for opening time, a man reads a newspaper on the front stoop of a barbershop in Steelton, Pennsylvania.

A man sits in front of the Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt. This photograph in the March 1921 issue accompanied Sir Ross Smith's first-person narrative of travelling "from London to Australia by aeroplane."