Mutnovsky volcano, which requires a bumpy, four-hour drive on dirt roads and across boulder-strewn lava fields to reach the lip, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, August of 2019. Famous for its exceptional flora and fauna and farther east than Japan, the peninsula does not resemble anyplace else in Russia, and for many Russians represents a distant otherworld of majestic, magnetic wilderness. (Neil MacFarquhar/The New York Times)