A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

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

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.