The Eden Project

They took a gigantic lifeless abandoned mining pit and turned it into the garden of Eden.   

I tell you it's amazing.  The whole pit is now full of lush green plants of every imaginable kind BUT, as if that weren't cool enough, they decided to go ahead and build a few giant biomes, because hey, there's nothing good on TV right now.  They're the biggest greenhouses in the world! 

It's called the Eden Project.  And outside, it's England, where the weather hardly ever throws you a bone, but inside....paradise!  Like, literally, tropical paradise.  With waterfalls and exotic birds and lush, beautiful plants from every tropical environment.  It's been called the Eighth Wonder of the World.