Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

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

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.