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Lobster mushrooms get their name from their color, which resembles the shell of a lobster.
Gastro Obscura

Lobster Mushroom

This mushroom isn't a mushroom at all.
Boylan's Birch Beer
Gastro Obscura

Birch Beer

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.
Poplar trees at the test site. The second and fourth rows (from the left) were inoculated with the probiotic bacteria.
science

Giving Trees Probiotics Can Help Clean Up Superfund Sites

Scientists have found bacteria that like gobbling up a common toxic chemical.
Kelsey Kennedy August 15, 2017
George C. Creelman lilies at the Ontario Agricultural College.
mystery

The Hunt for a Missing Canadian Lily

The pioneering horticulturist Isabella Preston bred the George C. Creelman lily in 1916. At some point in the 1940s, it seems to have vanished.
Cara Giaimo August 14, 2017
Lanarch Castle, Dunedin.
Dunedin, New Zealand

Larnach Castle

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.
Elephants stand on the Sezincote grounds.
Sezincote, England

Sezincote Estate

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.
A screenshot of the tree canopy map.
maps

A Very Detailed, Interactive Map of Chicago’s Tree Canopy

It reveals some startling patterns.
Delaney Nolan August 14, 2017
New tea plants in the greenhouse.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina

Charleston Tea Garden

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
A tree spirit.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia

Saint Simons Island Tree Spirits

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.
The Tambopata Research Center
Tambopata, Peru

Tambopata Research Center

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.
Hippie Tree
Traverse City, Michigan

The Hippie Tree

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.
Huitlacoche on a corn cob.
Gastro Obscura

Huitlacoche

The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
One of the many sinkholes in the park.
Nassau, Bahamas

Primeval Forest National Park

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.
The entrance.
Bryrup, Denmark

Velling Koller Fairy Tale Gardens

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.
Blanket bog on the Hill of Gremista, Scotland.
bog bodies

Save the Bogs, for Peat's Sake

These little-loved wetlands are a crucial front in the fight against climate change.
Sarah Laskow August 2, 2017
The trees of Upton Court Park in Slough.
crime

Who Is the Mystery Tree-Cutter of Slough?

Someone keeps cutting down large trees.
Eric Grundhauser August 1, 2017
Garden looking west
Los Angeles, California

Miniature Garden of Whimsy

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.
The 2010 dressing of Coffin Well in Tissington.
Tissington, England

Derbyshire Well Dressing

The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.