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Standin' on the Corner Park
Standin' on the Corner Park, Winslow, Arizona: a Route 66 park opened in 1999 commemorating the Eagles' song "Take It Easy," featuring a John Pugh mural, a Ron Adamson bronze statue, and a flatbed Ford.
Stanley Park
Stanley Park is Vancouver's 400-hectare urban park on a downtown peninsula, opened in 1888 and named for Governor General Lord Stanley, with a 9 km seawall, national historic site designation (1988), and Coast Salish history.
Strawberry Fields (memorial)
Strawberry Fields is the John Lennon memorial in Central Park, New York, near West 72nd Street opposite the Dakota. Named for "Strawberry Fields Forever," dedicated October 9, 1985, it centers on the Naples-donated Imagine mosaic.
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Silver Jubilee Agricultural Park
Taman Pertanian Jubli Perak Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (TPJPSHAS) is a 504.4-hectare agro-forestry agrotourism park on the Kuantan–Kemaman bypass, Pahang, Malaysia, begun 1987, opened by the Sultan 24 July 1999, revitalized in 2024.
Sunflower Garden
Sunflower Garden (百万葵园, Million Sunflower Garden), Guangzhou: China's first and largest sunflower-themed park, opened April 2002 in Nansha's Xinken, 26 hectares, about one million sunflowers; closed August 27, 2024 amid rent arrears and lost 4A rating.
Takagi Village Primrose Gardens
Takagi Village Primrose Gardens (くりん草園, Kurinso-en), in Kujukutani Forest Park, Takagi Village, Nagano, Japan: a free garden where tens of thousands of kurin-sō Japanese primroses, the village flower, bloom mid-May to early June; its May festival was cancelled in 2026 after heat damaged the plants.
The Battery (Manhattan)
The Battery (formerly Battery Park) is a 25-acre park at the southern tip of Manhattan, home to Castle Clinton National Monument, once a fort, theater, 8-million-immigrant depot, and aquarium, now gardens and ferry hub.
The Grand View Garden Area of Shanghai
Shanghai Grand View Garden (上海大观园, Daguanyuan) is a 135-mu pseudo-classical garden in Qingpu District on Dianshan Lake, built 1980-1988 to recreate the garden in Dream of the Red Chamber, Luban Prize winner and 4A scenic spot.
The Rose Garden
The Rose Garden (Hebrew: Gan HaVeradim), formally the Wohl Rose Garden, is a 19-acre public rose garden in Jerusalem opposite the Knesset, opened in 1981 and Israel's largest.
The Temple of Apollo
The Temple of Apollo is a Grade I-listed circular garden temple of 1765 at Stourhead, Wiltshire, by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare, copied from Wood's Ruins of Baalbec; the name also denotes ancient temples at Delphi, Didyma, Corinth, and Rome.
The Temple of Heaven Ecological Popular Science Garden
The Temple of Heaven Ecological Popular Science Garden (天坛生态科普园), built 2014 in Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park, is a 13,000 m² education site with plant zones, 34 ancient trees, and birdlife, hosting 130+ annual science courses reaching 5 million people.
Tiananmen Square (天安门广场)
Tiananmen Square (天安门广场) is Beijing's vast central city square, about 440,000 m², south of the Forbidden City. Once a closed imperial ceremonial space, it opened in 1913, was rebuilt 1958–1959, and hosts China's major state ceremonies.
Tottori Flower Park
Tottori Flower Park (Tottori Hanakairo, とっとり花回廊) is a 50-hectare prefectural flower park in Nanbu-cho, Tottori, opened 1999, with a 1 km covered walkway, lily collection, Flower Dome, and Mt. Daisen borrowed scenery.
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square, London's largest formal public square in Westminster, laid out by Nash and Barry, home to Nelson's Column, Landseer's lions, the National Gallery, the Fourth Plinth, and the 2003 pedestrianisation.
Tree That Owns Itself
The Tree That Owns Itself, also called the Jackson Oak, is a white oak in Athens, Georgia, said by legend to own itself and eight feet of surrounding land; the deed is unverified, and the current tree is a 1946 acorn successor.
Tropical Flower and Plants Garden
Tropical Flower and Plants Garden (西双版纳热带花卉园) is a 4A-level tropical crop germplasm and flower park in Jinghong, Yunnan, opened in 1999 by the Yunnan Tropical Crops Research Institute, holding about 1,000 species across 25 scenic spots.
Tuileries Garden
The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) is a large formal garden in Paris between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, created in 1564 for Catherine de' Medici.
Ueno Park (上野公園)
Ueno Park (上野公園), formally Ueno Onshi Park, is a Tokyo public park designated Japan's first park in March 1873 on the former Kan'ei-ji temple grounds after Dr. Bauduin's proposal; it holds major museums, Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, and famous cherry blossoms.
Uhuru Park
Uhuru Park is a public park in central Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 1969 and known as the site of landmark protests led by Wangari Maathai.
Ulsan Grand Park
Ulsan Grand Park (울산대공원) is an ecotype city park in Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Korea, built 1997-2006 with SK funding, run by Ulsan Infrastructure Corporation, and known for its Rose Festival.
Unity Park
Unity Park (አንድነት ፓርክ) is a public park and heritage attraction in the Grand Palace compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, opened to the public on October 10, 2019.
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i (Patriots' Park), a military-patriotic culture and recreation park in Qarshi, Uzbekistan, with a WWII museum, military hardware, a giant map of Uzbekistan, and about 7 hectares of grounds.
Villa Borghese gardens
Villa Borghese gardens (Giardini di Villa Borghese), Rome's 80-hectare historic landscape park on the Pincian Hill, begun 1606 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, state-bought 1901, public since 1903, home to Galleria Borghese, Bioparco and Giardino del Lago.
Villa Pamphili
Villa Pamphili, or Villa Doria Pamphilj, is a 17th-century Roman villa on the Janiculum whose 184-hectare grounds form Rome's largest park, begun by Panfilo Pamphili in 1630 and linked to Pope Innocent X.
Voices for Climate Ecological Park
Parque Ecológico Voces por el Clima (Voices for Climate Ecological Park), a 4.5-hectare climate change education park in Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru, built as a COP20 2014 legacy by MINAM and the Surco municipality, the first climate theme park in South America.
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe Park is a Grade I registered 18th-century landscape park and Palladian villa in Buckinghamshire, created by Sir Francis Dashwood between 1735 and 1781, with temples by Nicholas Revett, a dammed River Wye lake, and National Trust ownership since 1943.
Westfalenpark
Westfalenpark is Dortmund's large admission-charging park, created for the 1959 Bundesgartenschau on 60 hectares with 6.8 million visitors, home of the Florianturm tower and events such as Lichterfest and Juicy Beats.
Windsor Great Park
Windsor Great Park: 1,942-hectare (4,800-acre) royal park near Windsor Castle, Berkshire, owned by the Crown Estate; features the Long Walk, Virginia Water, Savill Garden; Grade I registered; Ranger is King Charles III since 2022.
Wonju Children's Traffic Park
원주어린이교통공원 (Wonju Children's Traffic Park) is a traffic-safety education park in Wonju, Gangwon, the first of its kind in the province, with miniature roads, signals, and crosswalks, now run under private outsourcing.
Yu Garden
Yu Garden (豫园, Yuyuan) is a Ming-dynasty classical Jiangnan garden in Shanghai's Huangpu district, begun in 1559 by Pan Yunduan, a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit beside the City God Temple and Yuyuan Bazaar.