The Most Compelling Photos of the Week

Each week, National Geographic publishes hundreds of powerful images online. Here are 6 pictures from the past week that stood out to our photo editors.

For over 100 years, Karnaval celebrations have been held in various cities around Haiti that showcase the country's unique creole culture. Disheartened by the constant negative news surrounding Haiti, French photographer Corentin Fohlen traveled to the town of Jacmel to photograph the creativity and spirit of a people often shown as downtrodden.

The Aokigahara forest is about 13.5 square miles and was formed around 1,000 years ago. The ground is uneven and covered with moss.

A tigress rests with her cub in India’s Bandhavgarh National Park in 2011.

Italian glaciologist and cave explorer Niccolò Segreto admires the sculptured walls of blue ice inside a contact cave, where the edge of the glacier meets the mountainside in Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland.

The Milky Way over the

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