On the far south coast, Foros Church clings to a rocky pech in the Crimean Mountains, National Geographic, September 1994

When the earth twitched: Collapsed overpasses lie in ruin and toppled cans strew a supermarket after an earthquake along a minor fault shook the San Fernando Valley on February 9, 1971. Measuring a moderate 6.5 on the Richter scale, it left 64 persons dead and caused half a billion dollars’ damage in suburban Los Angeles. National Geographic, January 1973

Even the meandering river [Indus River] has deserted the once mighty citadel with its acres of ruins, National Geographic, December 1978

Behind the traditional English facade of Parliament, Canadians of many ethnic groups and political persuasions warm up with vigorous debate under a system bequeathed by Great Britain, National Geographic, December 1978

Fog, the magician, erases half of Lions Gate Bridge. The pervasive mist shrouds the city 62 days a year; rain pays court more than twice as often, leaving an annual 60 inches. National Geographic, October 1978

With the air cleansed, homes in this old, largely ethnic neighborhood overlooking the Monongahela are now coveted for their visits. National Geographic, June 1978

Snowy beacon through dark centuries of Armenia’s often tragic history, the rumpled presence of Mount Ararat looms as the symbolic heart of the ancient nation. National Geographic, June 1987

The more militant St. Bernart used the basilica at Vézelay to foment the Second Crusade in 1146, National Geographic, June 1978

A country road takes its own sweet time weaving up a multicolored slope to hills in sparsely populated Tioga County. Though heavily industrialized, Pennsylvania is three-fifths timbered, a transition zone between northern and southern forests. It also claims some of the nation’s most productive farmland, particularly in southeast areas, and yields bounties of dairy products, corn, mushrooms, fruit, and tobacco, National Geographic, June 1978

Aluminum and old brick meld into a pastiche of boutiques and eateries in Philadelphia’s New Market. The development accompanied a restoration of seedy but restorable colonial homes in the new chic Society Hill neighborhood, National Geographic, June 1978