Take a Tree-Mendous Trip Around the World

Rearing redwoods and stretching sequoias, the world is full of thriving forests. Click and drag to explore them using street view! Scroll on to discover 10 famous trees from around the globe...

This giant sequoia found, appropriately, in Giant Forest, California is the largest living tree in the world. Every year, thousands marvel at this wonder of nature, which carries on growing slowly and steadily.

This small, lonely willow stands a few metres off the shores of Lake Wanaka, New Zealand. Set amongst a photogenic landscape, this tree has become so popular with photographers that it's become known simply as 'That Wanaka Tree'.

The Major Oak is not only the largest oak tree in England, but perhaps its most famous. Folklore says that it was under the strong boughs of this tree that Robin Hood and his Merry Men slept. Certainly, many people have, as the tree is thought to be 1000 years old.

Named after the writer Thomas Hardy, who, as a young architecture apprentice, was tasked with moving the gravestones in St Pancras churchyard to allow the building of the nearby train station, and built this almost artistic arrangement of stones.

Trees are rare in the barren desert of Bahrain, in fact, as the only tree for miles around, it has become a landmark and popular tourist site. How exactly it remains luscious in the desert is unknown, and has led some to suggest it receives water from mystical sources.

Sometimes, it's difficult to see the wood for the trees. In 1968, scientists discovered that this grove of 47000 aspen trees is actually one single organism, sharing a root system that covers 43 hectares and is an estimated 80,000 years old.