With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

A treasure-trove of Mao-era propaganda posters is housed in an unmarked basement museum in Shanghai.

Using a pseudonym, photographer "H. Lee" draws back the curtains around marijuana production in Northern California.

If you've seen the films Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton or any of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, you've seen the Spanish town of Almeria. Fifty years after Almeria's filmmaking boom, D.C.-based photographer Mark Parascandola brings us images that explore Almeria's haunting identity.

Photographer Meggan Gould explores an obsession with computer screen backdrop images. What does your desktop say about you?

The competition celebrates the inner soul and beauty of animals from around the world.

Photographer Go Takayama has beautifully captured a region that, at least historically, has not been easy to access. That could soon change, though, with the construction of new roads and cities. He has spent the past two years with traditional Kyrgyz nomads on the cusp of change.