Top 10 Most Beautiful Forests

The oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforest at 180 million years predates the Amazon by tens of millions of years, where ancient ferns and flowering plants meet the Great Barrier Reef at Cape Tribulation.

The Schwarzwald's dense canopy of spruce and fir trees inspired Brothers Grimm fairy tales, though acid rain and bark beetle infestations linked to climate change are visibly thinning this iconic woodland.

Kyoto's towering bamboo stalks create a mesmerising tunnel of swaying green that produces an otherworldly rustling sound, recognised by Japan's Ministry of Environment as one of the country's 100 Soundscapes.

Europe's last primeval lowland forest shelters 800 European bison and trees over 500 years old, though controversial logging on the Polish side in 2017 sparked EU legal action and global outrage.

Roughly 400 pine trees in Gryfino bend at sharp 90-degree angles near their bases before curving skyward, a mystery from the 1930s that has never been conclusively explained by scientists.

Perpetually draped in mist at 1,400 metres elevation, this cloud forest shelters over 2,500 plant species, 400 bird species including the resplendent quetzal, and 100 species of mammals in just 105 square kilometres.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest temperate rainforest contains Huon pines over 3,000 years old and ancient myrtle beeches, yet ongoing battles over mining leases threaten this globally significant wilderness.

Each April, millions of wild bluebells carpet the floor of this beech forest near Brussels in a sea of violet-blue that lasts barely three weeks, drawing photographers from across Europe.

This UNESCO island south of Kyushu harbours ancient cryptomeria cedars over 7,000 years old, including the legendary Jōmon Sugi, draped in moss and epiphytes in a landscape that inspired Princess Mononoke.

The oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforest at 180 million years predates the Amazon by tens of millions of years, where ancient ferns and flowering plants meet the Great Barrier Reef at Cape Tribulation.

The Schwarzwald's dense canopy of spruce and fir trees inspired Brothers Grimm fairy tales, though acid rain and bark beetle infestations linked to climate change are visibly thinning this iconic woodland.

Kyoto's towering bamboo stalks create a mesmerising tunnel of swaying green that produces an otherworldly rustling sound, recognised by Japan's Ministry of Environment as one of the country's 100 Soundscapes.

Europe's last primeval lowland forest shelters 800 European bison and trees over 500 years old, though controversial logging on the Polish side in 2017 sparked EU legal action and global outrage.

Roughly 400 pine trees in Gryfino bend at sharp 90-degree angles near their bases before curving skyward, a mystery from the 1930s that has never been conclusively explained by scientists.

Perpetually draped in mist at 1,400 metres elevation, this cloud forest shelters over 2,500 plant species, 400 bird species including the resplendent quetzal, and 100 species of mammals in just 105 square kilometres.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest temperate rainforest contains Huon pines over 3,000 years old and ancient myrtle beeches, yet ongoing battles over mining leases threaten this globally significant wilderness.

Each April, millions of wild bluebells carpet the floor of this beech forest near Brussels in a sea of violet-blue that lasts barely three weeks, drawing photographers from across Europe.

This UNESCO island south of Kyushu harbours ancient cryptomeria cedars over 7,000 years old, including the legendary Jōmon Sugi, draped in moss and epiphytes in a landscape that inspired Princess Mononoke.