Set in the San Jacinto Mountains, the ’80s home is surrounded by boulders, trees, and forest trails—and it comes with a guesthouse and a hot tub.

One of them is the serene oasis of the Meiji Shrine, a destination surrounded by a sacred forest with thousands of trees. It is one of the most popular religious sites in the city and the country ...

noticed a Dipteryx oleifera tree standing tall and largely undamaged following a lightning strike in Panama in 2015, surrounded by more than a dozen trees that were destroyed in the incident.