Elephants regularly gather at the Bai, a large clearing, to drink.

BBC: Elephants

The path passes by a feeding station for deer, then comes to a large clearing around a farmhouse where dozens of walkers are stopping for lunch.

BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail

In the mid-1960s, an Israeli doctor discovered that it worked miracles on patients suffering a particularly gruesome complication of leprosy, completely clearing the large, painful boils which covered their bodies.

ECONOMIST: Thalidomide