San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Make it an offering.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.