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New York City’s Best Spots for a First Date

Where in the Big Apple to take the apple of your eye.
Holyn Thigpen July 23, 2026
Berlin, Germany

Bent Metal on Two Cars

Likely the world’s only place where you’re meant to skate on top of cars.
Buffalo Olmsted Park System map (1881)
architecture

How Buffalo Became a City Within a Park

When Buffalo hired Frederick Law Olmsted to plan its parks, the Central Park designer decided to go big. The park he created changed landscape architecture forever.
Bordeaux, France

Square Vinet Green Wall

A picturesque vertical garden provides respite from the bustling streets of Bordeaux.
Tokyo, Japan

Todoroki Valley

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.
Manila, Philippines

Arroceros Forest Park

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.
Queens, New York

Home for Retired Playground Animals

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
Sydney, Australia

Paddington Reservoir Gardens

A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.
North Korea's late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il tower over visitors to the Grand Monument at Mansu Hill, reinforcing the Kim family's power.
architecture

Inside Pyongyang, North Korea's Capital of Control

Every detail of the city's architecture and urban planning is in service to the Kim dynasty.
Caroline Campbell January 3, 2024
A chestnut-sided warbler.
nature

Find More Birds Wherever You Are With These Birding Basics

Author and birding enthusiast Heather Wolf shares her favorite tips for finding our feathered friends.
Heather Wolf August 24, 2023
Dallas, Texas

Klyde Warren Park

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.
A building in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale.
abandoned

Podcast: Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 12, 2022
A volunteer with the reforestation effort walks through a woodland near Amman. Today, only about one percent of Jordan is forested.
forests

To Resurrect Jordan's Lost Forests, Plant a Seed in Hearts and Minds

Environmentalists see small reforestation pilot sites around the capital of Amman as a first step to a greener future.
Jason Ruffin April 7, 2022
Tashkent Park
Seattle, Washington

Tashkent Park

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.
Plaza 1° de Mayo tile art (in desrepair)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Plaza Primero de Mayo

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.
This Turf Tutorial introduces the concept of urban naturalism to help you hone your observation skills and cultivate your sense of wonder and curiosity in nature as you explore the city.
nature

Turf Tutorial: Urban Naturalism

Exploring Earth Oddities in Urban Wildscapes with Ruby McConnell
Restored Endale Arch in 2020
Brooklyn, New York

Endale Arch

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.
Nairobi City Park
Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi City Park

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.