As if fungi could get any cooler with their bizarre shapes, colors, and quirks, some can even glow in the dark. Here are 10 bioluminescent mushrooms.

N. gardneri mushrooms grow at the base of young babassu palms in Brazil. A bland tan by day, the fungi emit an eerie green light by night. A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing ...

N. gardneri mushrooms grow at the base of young babassu palms in Brazil. A bland tan by day, the fungi emit an eerie green light by night. A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing ...

To test that, the researchers created fake mushrooms -- baited with green LED lights and rigged with sticky traps -- and put them in the same Brazilian forest as the real mushrooms they were studying.