PHOTOS

From Elvis Presley wearing a velvet suit to meet Richard Nixon to the migrant mother who unwittingly became the face of the Great Depression, these are the true stories behind a few iconic photographs from history.

It’s common sense: If you make a big deal over something, it’s going to attract attention. And if you’re an international superstar, like, say, Barbra Streisand, the tantrum is going to draw even more attention.

Benjamin Grant’s Overview: A New Perspective of Earth stitches together satellite images to show our planet as we’ve never seen it before.

Throughout the monarch’s record-setting reign, her corgis were never far from her ankles.

NASA has released the deepest, clearest images of the universe ever captured.

The Sutton Hoo ship burial excavation was meticulously captured by two amateur photographers. Now, you can see their work online.

Photographing Iceland’s Northern Lights is well worth paying for your hotel stay—but the Hotel Rangá will let one lucky visitor do it for free.

From the New York Botanical Garden to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, here are the horticultural locales that visitors love to photograph.

With its high arches and mirrored ceilings, Dujiangyan’s latest bookstore seems like it goes on forever.

Snail tongues and nylon stockings are surprisingly beautiful. Fruit bat skeletons, on the other hand? Terrifying.

The photo of Biggie Smalls crowned “King of New York” was taken just three days before his death in 1997.

Video-chatting isn’t all that different than communicating via Floo Powder or portrait-hopping, right?