1. A forest full of rainbow trees
Imagine the amazing flora that provides shelter, shade and fruit can even communicate with each other via fungi. The bark of certain trees can even bear colours of the rainbow, in the trees like Eucalyptus deglupta, commonly called the "rainbow eucalyptus" or "Mindanao gum." Native to the tropical regions of New Britain, New Guinea, Seram, Sulawesi and Mindanao, the only eucalyptus species indigenous to the northern hemisphere. It grows so quickly that it's able to double its size every year, reaching a trunk diameter of 6 feet and soaring to heights of 200 feet!
2. A park where the mushrooms glow
A group of bioluminescent fungi collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near São Paulo, Brazil, emanates a soft green glow in the dark. The mushrooms are part of the genus Mycena, a group that includes about 500 species worldwide and 33 of these are known to be bioluminescent.
3. A city that has speedy bumps in the sky
Burketown, Queensland in Australia from late September to early November you can see a series of long tubular white clouds shooting in the sky. These clouds are dangerous turbulence for airplanes, but glider pilots challenge themselves to "ride" these mysterious clouds.
4. A beach where the tide flows red
Florida red tide is due to the organism must be present in the water. The chemistry behind nutrients that it needs to grow and the right physical conditions. It's beautiful to see the "Red Flower" blooming in a rising tide towards the beech.
5. An island devoted to star gazers
The tiny island of Sark off the northwest coast of France in the English Channel is one of the darkest places in the world. When night falls, millions of stars appear, meteors streak overhead and the Milky Way is visible across the skyline.
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