Leiden, Netherlands
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.
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Leiden, Netherlands
A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.
Leiden, Netherlands
People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.
Lisse, Netherlands
A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.
Lower Beeding, England
This breathtakingly beautiful botanical garden is home to a mob of wonderful wallabies.
London, England
These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.
Tromsø, Norway
The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.
Oxford, England
The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.
Wicklow, Ireland
Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.
Tinajo, Spain
Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.
Slanchevo, Bulgaria
Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.
Realmonte, Italy
"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.
Wallachia, Romania
The growing stones of Romania.
Botriolo, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.
Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec
A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.
Huesca, Spain
A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.
Rodellar, Spain
An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.
Borgholm N, Sweden
An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.
Port-d'Envaux, France
A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.
Kouvola, Finland
Sculptures of dinosaurs, trolls, and other beasts carved with chainsaws guard Finland's largest arboretum.
Rønne, Denmark
A whimsical sculpture garden right out of a children's storybook.
Stockholm, Sweden
This Stockholm art museum integrates many of its pieces into the surrounding outdoor areas and natural landscape.
Hörby, Sweden
Unexpectedly standing in a glade, this large group of life-sized, 3D-printed clay figures captures the essence of local young people.
Pello, Finland
A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.
Otterlo, Netherlands
Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.