Foto van de dag

Former U.S. President Barack Obama snorkels in the waters off the Midway Islands in September 2016. The dive was part of his trip to celebrate the expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument to twice the size of Texas, making it one of the world's largest protected areas.

Little dresses hang to dry on a line in Utuado, Puerto Rico. A March 2003 story examined the island's future, with residents speculating on pursuing U.S. statehood, independence, or remaining a commonwealth.

Artist Vincent van Gogh spent a year in a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, where he painted the landscapes he saw outside his window. Today, the hospital is still functioning, and in this photo from the October 1997 issue, a woman uses art to work through her mental illness.

Korean farmers, whose parents immigrated to Crimea in the 1930s, rest with their Russian workers after harvesting watermelons in the town of Krasnoperekopsk. This photo appeared in a September 1994 story titled "Crimea: Pearl of a Fallen Empire."

Three-toed dinosaur fossil tracks show where Limayichnus major once roamed in southern Argentina. This picture originally appeared in the December 1997 issue, in a story following a group of paleontologists working to find Patagonia's dinosaurs.