Nature in the United States

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A white oak with property rights.

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

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.