The Six Best National Parks On Earth That Everyone Needs To Visit

By Savannah Cox | Edited By John Kuroski

Published April 10, 2012

Updated November 9, 2023

Best National Parks On The Planet: Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Corcovado National Park

Situated in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, Corcovado National Park boasts a combination of lush rain forest foliage and coastal beach beauty. Home to exotic flora and fauna, its rain forests are populated by poison arrow frogs, jaguars, tapirs, sloths, snakes, monkeys and caimans, all of which make it one of the most expansive conservation areas in Central America.

Corcovado Costa Rica

Corcovado Rain Forest

Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia

Best National Parks Gunung Mulu

One can discover the beauty of the Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia’s Borneo Jungle. It is home to the most expansive and impressive limestone cave system in the world as well as over 8,000 species of plants.

Unfortunately, it can be quite cumbersome to get there; those adventurous souls who want to explore the enchanting beauty of one of Earth’s best national parks can do so only by air or, sometimes, riverboat.

Gunung Mulu Park Malaysia

Gunung Mulu Borneo

Gunung Mulu

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Savannah Cox holds a Master's in International Affairs from The New School as well as a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. Her work as a writer has also appeared on DNAinfo.

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John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of interest include modern history and true crime.

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Cox, Savannah. "The Six Best National Parks On The Planet." AllThatsInteresting.com, April 10, 2012, https://allthatsinteresting.com/best-national-parks. Accessed February 23, 2025.