March 21, 2013. A hare cowers in the snow near Frankfurt, Germany. One day after the astronomical beginning of spring and days before Easter, temperatures across the country were still cold. (Patrick Pleul—AFP/Getty Images)

Pictured: Outhouse, Finger Mountain Wayside, 2009. Mile 173.

In a place where Walmart and McDonald’s are now as ubiquitous as sourdoughs and homesteaders, photographer Ben Huff’s project on the Dalton Highway embodies the confounding nature of America’s 49th state. See more on LightBox.

A new panorama of Antarctica by Google’s Street View takes a look inside Ernest Shackleton’s expeditionary huts, more than a century after they were built. 

Explore the interactive panorama on LightBox here.

Khedi Konchieva, 15, goes on a date with her boyfriend in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. A couple on a date in Chechnya must meet in public and sit a few feet apart. Any form of intimate contact is forbidden; some young woman who have sex before marriage risk death at the hands of their family.

Chechen authorities are the unseen presence in Diana Markosian’s photographs of girls growing up in Chechnya. See more here.