Parks

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The Sun, Moon, and stars peacefully coexist with animals, humans, and their tools at this surprising sculpture park.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.