worldly exploration

A sailboat on the <n>Tyrrhenian Sea</n>. Photo by <n>Tim Damas</n>.

The <n>Giza pyramid complex</n> in Egypt, circa 1865.

Jazz trumpeter <n>Louis Armstrong</n> plays for his wife, <n>Lucille Wilson</n>, at the <n>Great Sphinx of Giza</n> in 1961.

Monks from <n>Mount Sichimen monastery</n> before <n>Mount Fuji</n>, Japan, 1961. Photo by <n>Burt Glinn</n>.

Photo by <n>David Iliff</n> of <n>Beachy Head</n> in East Sussex, England, captured in April 2010.

Decorated mud houses in Tiébélé, Burkina Faso, photographed by <n>Margaret Courtney-Clarke</n> for her book <n>African Canvas</n>.

Photo by <n>David Lewis</n> of the <n>Sentinelese people</n> on <n>North Sentinel Island</n>, 1988.

Children play on the shore in Soufrière, St. Lucia, with <n>The Pitons</n> in the distance, 1957.

A ship seemingly floats due to a <n>Fata Morgana</n> mirage. Artwork by <n>MindChirp</n>.

A 1985 photograph from Indonesia, featured in the book <n>Bunga Bangsa Indonesia</n> by <n>Joop Ave</n>.

A <n>Land Rover Defender</n> at the <n>Camel Trophy</n> event, from the <n>Camel Trophy Club Archive</n>.

Decorated mud houses of the <n>Kassena people</n> in Tiébélé, Burkina Faso. Photo by <n>Margaret Courtney-Clarke</n>.

Photograph <n>Traversée Midi-Plan</n> by <n>Pierre Tairraz</n>.

The iconic view of <n>Mount Fuji</n> from a <n>Lawson</n> store in Fujikawaguchiko. Photo by <n>Dimash Nukassov</n>.

<n>Victor Place</n> and photographer <n>Gabriel Tranchand</n> with a <n>Lamassu</n> during excavations in <n>Khorsabad</n>, Iraq, 1852.

<n>The Soul of the Universe</n>, a 1925 photograph by <n>Albert Arthur Allen</n>.

Tourists take tea atop the <n>Great Pyramid of Giza</n> in 1938. Photo by <n>Bettmann</n>.

A hunter from the <n>Kombai tribe</n> in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by <n>Frédéric Lagrange</n>.

Collage by <n>Robert Whalley</n> over a 1978 photo from <n>SUMMIT Magazine</n> of <n>Chic Scott</n>.

A view of the <n>Pyramids of Giza</n> from travel company <n>Voyageurs du Monde</n>.

A view of <n>Mount Fuji</n> from a train in Japan. Video by <n>Ben Richards</n>.

<n>Grotto in an Iceberg</n>, a 1911 photograph by <n>Herbert G. Ponting</n> from the <n>Terra Nova Expedition</n>.