QUICK FACTS
Name: Mount Kilimanjaro
Location: Kilimanjaro National Park, northeast Tanzania
Coordinates: -3.067192481296387, 37.355526051878165
Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels.
On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The giant groundsel, a plant that looks like a pineapple crossed with a saguaro cactus, colonized the flanks of Africa's tallest mountain up to 1 million years ago and has not budged since.
