Places DrAK Wants to Go

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

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

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

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

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

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

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

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A white oak with property rights.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.