Trees

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.