PHOTOS: 12 of the world's most spectacular Christmas trees

Vilnius Christmas tree (Lithuania)





Lego Christmas tree (Malaysia)





Rockefeller Center tree (NYC)



Galeries Lafayette tree (France)
At 85 meters and 540 tons, it's the world's largest floating Christmas tree and possibly the world's only one of any note. Parabéns, Brazil!

Floating Christmas tree (Brazil)


Must be hard to have an "austerity" Christmas with this baby parked out the front. And Obama gets to light it.

National Christmas tree (Wash., D.C.)

Norway has given Berlin a Christmas tree every year as a sign of peace and solidarity since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But no shockingly expensive Scandinavian thermal wear. Well, it's the thought that counts.

Brandenburg Gate tree (Berlin)

The hotel pastry team at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, took 58 hours to create this 8,000-cakelet Christmas tree. And were paid in macaroons.

Macaroon Christmas tree (United States)

Made by a luxury umbrella maker Fulton and unsurprisingly festooned with said rain gear. Problems start when you imagine what other manufacturers might come up with.

Umbrella tree (London)

This one reflects the baroque style shared by the host Grand Hôtel de Bordeaux & Spa and Bordeaux's opera house. Also sings in a nice soprano. We assume.

Opera Christmas tree (France)

Fendi "bag bugs" festoon the fashion house's tree at the Hotel de Russie, Rome. Get up close and you'll hear it going "mwah mwah" and making snotty comments in five languages.

Fendi Christmas tree (Rome)

The 900 plastic bottles used to make this London tree were meant as a statement on Christmas consumerism. And a good one: 900 bottles sounds like a helluva lot.

Recycled bottle Christmas tree (London)