Wild nature — hidden gems — page 10

The monumental cemetery of Nørrebro in Copenhagen: tree-lined avenues, the graves of Andersen and Kierkegaard, and locals reading in the sun.

A botanical garden from 1791 on Lake Brunnsviken in Stockholm: 9,000 species, the giant water lilies of the Victoriahuset and very few tourists.

In Phibsborough, Dublin 7, a former nineteenth-century reservoir where water covers 80% of the park: swans, an island and stone walls.

In Setagaya, the only natural gorge in Tokyo's 23 central wards: 1 km of trail among bamboo, an 1100s temple and a sacred waterfall.

Gio-ji in Sagano (Kyoto): a tiny convent with a carpet of moss beneath the maples, tied to the dancer Gio. Twenty minutes from Arashiyama.

On an island in the Han River in Seoul, a former water-treatment plant transformed into an ecological park: concrete basins overrun by plants.

A 1905 reservoir swallowed by the jungle behind the Seah Im Bunker, missing from Singapore's maps until 2014. How to get there.

The UNAM's Espacio Escultórico in Mexico City: 64 stone prisms around a sea of lava from the Pedregal. Free admission.

Two acres of wetland and woodland on the Regent's Canal, next to King's Cross. A London Wildlife Trust reserve, free admission.