Plants

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.