Parks

This park was once home to now-extinct Naumann's elephants, and what might have been a real Banksy.

This rural park in central Wisconsin honors one of the world’s most prominent numismatists.

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

This abandoned park is home to hundreds of stone statues ranging from humans to mystical beings.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

Pieces of a stone giant are embedded in the earth of this Colorado park's playground.

A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.