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Berlin, Germany

Berlin Botanical Garden

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Palo Alto, California

Arizona Cactus Garden

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.
Gryfino, Poland

Crooked Forest

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Brussels, Belgium

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Buendía, Spain

La Ruta de las Caras: The Route of Faces

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.
Columbia, Missouri

Devil's Icebox

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Cornwall, England

The Eden Project

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Forks, Washington

Hall of Mosses

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Raccoon Mountain Caverns

More than five miles of underground passageways.
Lincolnshire, England

Woolsthorpe Manor

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.
Holywood, Scotland

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

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

Svalbard Seed Bank

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.
Bilbao, Spain

Jeff Koons' Puppy

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

Longleat Hedge Maze

The longest hedge maze in the world.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Green Animals Topiary Garden

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!
Tokyo, Japan

Mohri Garden Pond

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
Alnwick, England

Alnwick Poison Garden

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."
Somalia

The Milky Seas

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.
Athens, Georgia

The Tree That Owns Itself

A white oak with property rights.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Blaschka Glass Flowers

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Barcelona, Spain

'El Petó de la Mort' ('The Kiss of Death')

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
Queens, New York

Houdini's Grave

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Charlottesville, Virginia

The Raven Room

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.