Thread by @NYTmag

Our fall Voyages issue is here. Follow along as we take you to the extremities of the earth: nyti.ms/2mzl71g

From a hauntingly vast coastline scattered with shipwrecks to an abandoned park with giant decaying busts of American presidents — this year, we sent photographers to capture scenes from places far-flung and a little eerie nyti.ms/2mCBdHr

Come with us to the coast of Norway, where majestic sea eagles with 8-feet-wingspans hunt for fish — and make a magnificent show of their power and precision nyti.ms/2n6XRaY

We take you to Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, where vast stretches of sand are littered with the wreckage of hulking cargo ships and whale bones, reminding us of the true balance of nature’s power nyti.ms/2l7P7AW

The Jewel at Singapore’s Changi Airport is a literal garden of futuristic delights: A grove filled with 100-foot-tall “supertrees” that glow neon at night, the world’s largest indoor waterfall and net walkways suspended 50 feet above the ground nyti.ms/2lurxi4

These limestone caves of Borneo are alive with crickets, crabs, spiders, birds and bats — three million bats. But they are also home to some of the world's oldest signs of human activity nyti.ms/2mAghkk

Let us now trudge to a field in Virginia where lie 42 giant busts of American presidents — 18 feet tall and weighing 10 tons — in various stages of decay and disintegration.

Welcome to Presidents Park, the (literal) ruins of America’s democracy nyti.ms/2myvaDD

And finally, from the @nytimes archives, an ode to adventure suits: Inflatable suits, wetsuits, pressurized suits, space suits.

However clunky they look, they represent something timeless: the insatiable human urge to explore nyti.ms/2natwse