The dawn of telemedicine, a brand new dinosaur, crisis averted in Greece (at least for now), and bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We discover the year's best drone photos plus the year's best space photos. Meanwhile, we tour Canada's spotted lake plus Nevada's disappearing lake.

Hard men and hard jobs: fighting raging wildfires out west, breaking mountains in half in search of gold, braving Russia's frozen tundra in search of oil.

U.S. census maps to topple your assumptions and beautifully illustrate who we are, how we live, where we came from, and where we're going.

The first color photos of America bring the past to life; beautiful portraiture brings nature's great beasts to life; driftwood brings dragons to life.

Explore TreeHouse Point, Washington's wondrous treehouse hotel, and discover its surprising ins and outs with these stunning photos and facts.

3D skull drawings that push through the page, the volcanic acid pools of Earth's great inferno, the world's scariest masks and this week's other terrors.

From China's synchronous stasis or movement to the world's most exotic places, this week we can't get enough of the world's diverse people and places.

While dinosaurs get all the attention, discover why prehistoric creatures like the terror bird and the Titanoboa are just as terrifying.

During the Holocaust, 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out.

From alchemy to Atlantis, you've never heard any of this before.