Arbol del Tule (Árbol del Tule)

Árbol del Tule. Girth - 36.2 m

One of the stoutest trees on Earth, Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum). Girth 36.2 m, diameter 11.62 m, height 35.4 m. Discounting the buttresses of the trunk the diameter – 9.38 m. Volume 750 m³. Age estimated to be 1,400 – 1,600 years. Sacred Zapotec tree.

General Grant Tree

General Grant Tree sometimes around 1936

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.)), the second largest tree in the world. Height 81.5 m, girth at breast height 27.8 m, volume 1,320 m3. This beautiful tree is declared as a National Shrine, a memorial to those who died in the war.

Boole Tree

Boole Tree, California

Giant sequoia of enormous size. Height 81.9 m, girth at the breast height 24.3 m, volume 1,203 m³.

Del Norte Titan

The stoutest coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.), with a circumference of 22.73 m, 93.6 m tall. Another great tree – Lost Monarch has a larger circumference: 24.13 m, but this measurement includes multiple stems.

Pissing Mare Falls

Pissing Mare Falls, as seen over the Western Brook Pond, Canada

One of the highest falls in eastern North America, formed at picturesque lake fjord – Western Brook Pond. Total height – 343 m, very impressive is the upper drop – approximately 250 m tall plunge.

Schwarzenbach Falls

These 520 meters tall falls (tallest single drop – around 200 meters) are special due to their location: they are possibly the most remote and the most northern large falls in world.

Helmcken Falls

Helmcken Falls, Canada

Beautiful, powerful waterfall with a 141 m high vertical plunge. Average width – 15 meters.

Qinngua Valley

Forested valley in Greenland, possibly - Qinngua Valley, Greenland

The only forest in Greenland, with willows and birches several meters high. Valley has more than 300 species of plants. This is a place of unsurpassed beauty, with a clean river and tall, snow-clad mountains around.

Honokohau Falls

Honokohau Falls from the air, Hawaii

341 m high falls from eternal cloud along emerald green mountain slope.