Travelers can take a kayak on a trek through Australia's rainforests to find alpine royalty: the prized King Billy pine tree.

It lays hidden beneath the sand for most of the year, but the twisted and hardened wood of ... beech, and sycamore trees. The forest is thought to have existed until around 5-6,000 BC.

The ancient oak is hollow but still hale and ... which dates to the 18th Century. The twisted tree forms part of a small line of hawthorn trees that mark the site of a former land boundary ...