Plants

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."