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Plants

Villa Pisani Labirinto

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Phil Campbell, Alabama

Dismals Canyon

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

The Very Old Oak Tree

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Oxford, England

Oak Beams, New College Oxford

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

A collapsed sign

West Palm Beach, Florida

Unit 11 in the Everglades

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Bialbero di Casorzo

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

Lemon Grove, California

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Williams, Oregon

Arborsmith Studios

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Nursery

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Holywood, Scotland

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

View of the house with the apple tree in the foreground.

Grantham, England

Woolsthorpe Manor

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

Summerville, Georgia

Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

The Upside-Down Forest of Glacier Gardens

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Fort Lawn, South Carolina

Landsford Canal State Park

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

Clintonville, Wisconsin

The Chair That Grew

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

Plitvička Jezera, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

More girth than any tree in the world.

Santa María del Tule, Mexico

El Árbol del Tule (The Tule Tree)

The stoutest tree in the world.

San Vito di Cadore, Italy

Wooden Books of Padova University

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.