Science and art are two sides of the same creative coin. Both employ curiosity, are inspired by the enigmatic, intrigued by the unknown, and often in awe of the beautiful. The most extreme enigmas are surely the work of fairies, or so we imagine. Why fairies? Because none of us have seen them, and so we can only be fascinated by the sorts of things that fairies might make, or what they can do. Neat circles in vegetation are particularly bizarre and attractive, so much so that the hundreds of thousands of bare round shapes in the Namib Desert are said to be fairy circles. They are also the battleground of scientists who argue over explanations for their structure and origins: are they formed by foraging termites, poisons left by euphorbias, or strange ways in which plants are spaced because of competition for water and nutrients, for example? We have found two other communities of fairies. They are the subject of this article, and they, too, are round. We use the more awkward term fairy spheres for one form to avoid being embroiled in the contests that surround the Namib’s fairy circles, and the circular limits imposed on the term. Our fairy spheres are also bare areas, many of which are almost perfect circles. But they are in bushy areas in central northern Namibia, which are quite different from the Namib desert's sparse grass cover. The others are fairy forests in miombo woodlands growing in sandy soils in Angola and probably elsewhere. What follows comes from our pleasure in trying to find the fairies responsible for their spheres and forests. It is our hope that more creative minds build on these observations to convert these mysteries into better understood marvels of the natural world.