Most airports give you a food court, a departure gate and maybe a duty free shop if you are lucky. Singapore's Changi Airport decided that was not nearly enough. In 2019, it opened Jewel, a giant glass domed building packed with thousands of trees, a five storey indoor forest and the world's tallest indoor waterfall crashing down right through the middle of it. It sounds like something out of a movie, but it is real, and anyone can walk in to see it, no boarding pass needed. What used to be a car park outside the terminals is now one of the most photographed spots in the country, proof that even something as ordinary as an airport can be turned into a small rainforest.
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