Natural History

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

Amazing vistas await visitors to this stretch of coastline.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

An old watchtower from the 16th-century now watches over sulfur springs and one of Lazio's last coastal woodlands.

A massive white oak tree provides a beautiful canopy near a suburban shopping center and stood before the signing of the Constitution.

The evolution of a simple creek cutting its way through an ochre mountain side.