The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is ...

There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught sight of an unusual boulder-strewn landscape with strange patterns not seen ...

a zen garden requires either sand or gravel. At the same time, 7 pounds of the garden-ready Mosser Lee Desert Sand is available for $6.99 on Amazon while 5 pounds of the captivating and colorful YISZM ...

Can You Find Zen In This 3-D Geometric Puzzle? An artist known for his large street installations takes it indoors, where he plants some dystopia in his Zen Garden ...

or head right to the Atkins Hillside Garden, with a winding river rock stream with waterfalls and wooden bridges. If you’re ...

Plagued by flooding and inadequate infrastructure, residents of "secret little paradise" Jefferson Chalmers are frustrated by ...

Gardens, Parks, Scenic Spots, Tennis Courts Rarely does Robert Moses’s name evoke the praise of environmentalists, but it was he who envisioned this 57-acre park along the East River.

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library ... snowmobiling and rock-climbing opportunities. Particularly known for the rushing waters of the Youghiogheny River Gorge, Ohiopyle has major extreme ...

MAVEN at Sawyer Yards, 1501 Silver, opens October 18 in Sawyer Yards. It's an extension of MAVEN Coffee + Cocktails from ...

My partner and I went to Colombia for the first time. During our 10-day trip, some of our plans were major hits, but others I ...

[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...