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Taylor's checkerspot butterfly.
prisons

A Butterfly Conservation Lab Takes Flight in a Women's Prison

It's also helping incarcerated women reconnect with nature.
Sabrina Imbler May 9, 2019
Original saloon/courthouse.
Langtry, Texas

Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.
Gastro Obscura

Redlove Apple

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.
Cinnamon has a very catholic palate.
parks

The Elite, Poison Ivy–Munching Goats Taking on New York's Invasive Weeds

There's a benefit to being able to eat almost anything.
Matthew Taub May 8, 2019
An aerial view.
Fontanellato, Italy

The Labirinto della Masone

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.
The tree is hollow in the middle.
forests

The End Is Near for One of Sweden's Oldest Trees

A giant oak is staring down the leafy green beyond.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 7, 2019
The rounded base of an Eospermatopteris stump.
Gilboa, New York

Gilboa Fossils

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
Likeness of Bob Hope in his memorial garden.
Los Angeles, California

Bob Hope Grave and Memorial Garden

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.
Cabanas, Spain

Fragas do Eume

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.
Joe Orman stands below 4 Square, one of the first crested saguaros he discovered.
deserts

Arizona's Most Unusual Cacti Have Their Own Fan Club

The Crested Saguaro Society is on a quest to document the Sonoran Desert's strangest succulents.
Kerry Wolfe April 24, 2019
Urdar's Well and Yggdrasil.
Uppsala, Sweden

Urdar's Well and Yggdrasil

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.
Behold, the <em>Hibiscadelphus woodii</em>.
cliffs

A Remote Valley, a Drone, And an Extinct Flower That's Not Extinct Anymore

A find from Hawai'i's cliffs.
Evan Nicole Brown April 18, 2019
"In Between."
Stockholm, Sweden

'In Between'

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.
The "Hijo del árbol de la Noche Triste" with its statue of Hernan Cortes.
Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico

Son of the Tree of the Night of Sorrows

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.
Officer Tony Marsh protects a reintroduced lady's slipper orchid near Carnforth, Lancashire, in May 2010.
flowers

This British Orchid Is Under Guard in a Secret Location

The last wild lady's slipper in the U.K. is a target for thieves.
Reina Gattuso April 11, 2019
Someday, succulents might keep spacefarers company.
space exploration

When We All Move to Space, We'll Have to Be Picky About Houseplants

Which are best suited for a life among the stars?
Jessica Leigh Hester April 11, 2019
Come on in!
Mecca, California

Dos Palmas and San Andreas Springs

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.
Thousand Palms, California

Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.