Plants

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A white oak with property rights.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

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

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A garden of flying flowers.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.