Best of January 2020
The Moinia Masjid mosque sits in Dharavi, India. More than 700,000 people live in this neighbourhood, which covers less than one square mile.
Photograph by Jonas Bendiksen, Nat Geo Image CollectionA rare jellyfish floats in Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Australia.
Photograph by David Doubilet, Nat Geo Image CollectionA man in Indiana takes his antique bicycle for a spin while storm clouds gather on the horizon.
Photograph by Melissa Farlow, Nat Geo Image CollectionTwo male elephants spar for dominance in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
Photograph by William Thompson, Nat Geo Image CollectionMen share a morning coffee in Tunisia in 1916.
Photograph by Franklin Price Knott, Nat Geo Image CollectionDancers whirl in a traditional fandango in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1989.
Photograph by Bruce Dale, Nat Geo Image CollectionThe seeds of native plants are replanted along roads in Glacier National Park, Montana, to discourage invasive weeds from taking over.
Photograph by Melissa Farlow, Nat Geo Image CollectionArt students sketch and paint watercolors of temples in Luxor, Egypt.
Photograph by Alexandra Avakian, Nat Geo Image CollectionAt a high-end mall in Guangzhou, China, crocodiles rest on the floor before being prepared for dinner in a nearby restaurant.
Photograph by Randy Olson, Nat Geo Image CollectionA gust of wind carries a cowboy hat along Route 66 in Arizona.
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, Nat Geo Image CollectionThe Sun City Poms are a dance team made up of women in a retirement community outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Here, one of their members executes a perfect handstand in 1993.
Photograph by Joanna Pinneo, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn Miyama, a quiet town on the west coast of Honshu Island, Japan, a young boy stops to look at a turtle on the side of the road.
Photograph by Peter Essick, Nat Geo Image CollectionA mother and daughter look out the window of a Trans-Siberian train as it travels through the Ural Mountains.
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig, Nat Geo Image CollectionA woman stops her bike ride to sketch the scenery in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
Photograph by James Stanfield, Nat Geo Image CollectionA dairy farmer checks on his herd as the sun sets in California's Central Valley.
Photograph by Sarah Leen, Nat Geo Image CollectionA mechanic inspects a jet engine in Atlanta, Georgia.
Photograph by Jim Richardson, Nat Geo Image CollectionCave pearls line the inside of Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. They form when loose bits of matter gradually pick up successive coats of calcite from gentle splashes of water.
Photograph by Michael Nichols, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn Basel, Switzerland, a worker coats vitamins with sugar.
Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, Nat Geo Image CollectionA long exposure shows the path of the stars over Casa Rinconada. The archaeological site in New Mexico was used by ancient Puebloans for rituals and community gatherings.
Photograph by Bob Sacha, Nat Geo Image CollectionA scorching sun casts long shadows as camels cross salt flats near Lake Assal, Djibouti.
Photograph by Chris Johns, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn Hollywood, Florida, French-Canadians take in the air during morning exercises.
Photograph by Sarah Leen, Nat Geo Image CollectionA fisherman collects cichlids in his net in Lake Malawi. More than 850 species of cichlids live in Lake Malawi.
Photograph by Bill Curtsinger, Nat Geo Image CollectionPeople mingle at an evening reception at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, Missouri.
Photograph by James P. Blair, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn Japan in the late 1980s, a bride sits while neighbours come view her.
Photograph by Karen Kasmauski, Nat Geo Image CollectionA child sleds down a hill outside of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Photograph by Car Wolinsky, Nat Geo Image CollectionWomen take a break from their work at a salmon canning factory in Poronaysk, Russia.
Photograph by Natalie B. Fobes, Nat Geo Image CollectionIn the 1980s, parents in east Harlem decorated an abandoned building with dolls and stuffed animals. The goal was to remind people selling drugs that children also lived on the street.
Photograph by JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ, Nat Geo Image CollectionA tourist to Antarctica naps on a deckchair in spite of the falling snow.
Photograph by COLIN MONTEATH/ MINDEN PICTURES, Nat Geo Image CollectionThe remains of a warrior-priest in Sipan, Lambayeque Valley, Peru, are colored green by oxidised metals that adorn it. The necklace across his chest depicts gold spiders with human faces, and the pots on either side of him may have been filled with offerings.
Photograph by Nathan Benn, Nat Geo Image CollectionA submersible hovers above a giant spider crab in the waters of Suruga Bay, Honshu Island, Japan. The Japanese spider crab can grow to a leg span of up to 18 feet, tipping the scales at more than 40 pounds.
Photograph by Emory Kristof, Nat Geo Image CollectionTourists in Yellowstone National Park stop to photograph an American black bear in 1972.
Photograph by Jonathan Blair, Nat Geo Image Collection