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Ambedkar Memorial Park
Ambedkar Memorial Park, popularly known as Ambedkar Park, is a public park and memorial in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, India, built to honor B. R. Ambedkar and other social reformers.
Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park is a 392 km² park in Kajiado County, Kenya, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, gazetted in 1974, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1991, famed for about 1,800 elephants and the world's longest-running wild elephant study.
America
America's botanical gardens: living plant museums begun with Bartram's Garden (1728, Philadelphia) and the U.S. Botanic Garden (1820), now over 800 U.S. institutions with 80 million annual visits, documented collections, and plant trialing programs.
Amicalola Falls State Park
Amicalola Falls State Park is a Georgia state park in Dawson County, established 1940, home to the 729-foot Amicalola Falls, the highest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi, and the start of the Appalachian Approach Trail.
Amir Timur park
Amir Timur park, or Amir Temur Square (Amir Temur xiyoboni), is Tashkent's central square-park, founded 1870/1882, renamed 1993, with a 1994 bronze equestrian statue of Temur and a 2026 renovation for his 690th birthday.
Anderson Japanese Gardens
Anderson Japanese Gardens is a 12-acre public Japanese garden in Rockford, Illinois, begun in 1978 by John Anderson and designed by Hoichi Kurisu; a nonprofit rated among North America's finest Japanese gardens.
Angel Island (California)
Angel Island is the largest natural island in San Francisco Bay, a California state park that served as the West Coast's main immigrant processing station from 1910 to 1940.
Angels Landing
Angels Landing is a sandstone fin in Zion National Park, Utah, with a 5.4-mile chain-assisted hike; permits via seasonal and day-before lotteries have been required since April 2022.
Anima Heller Garden
Anima Heller Garden, also called the André Heller Garden, is a botanical and sculpture garden in the Ourika Valley near Marrakech, created by Austrian artist André Heller.
Antelope Island
Antelope Island, largest island in Utah's Great Salt Lake, hosts Antelope Island State Park, reached by the Syracuse causeway. Known for its 1893-founded bison herd (550-700 animals), Fielding Garr Ranch, and dark-sky designation.
Aokigahara (青木ヶ原)
Aokigahara, also called Jukai or the Sea of Trees, is a dense forest on the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, Japan, that grew on lava from an 864 eruption.
Apothecary garden
Apothecary garden: a medicinal-plant garden for training apothecaries, also called a physic garden. Descends from monastery herb gardens; the Chelsea Physic Garden (1673) is the leading example, with later ones in Moscow, Minsk, and Antwerp.
Aquarium Grotto Garden
Aquarium Grotto Garden (حديقة جبلاية الأسماك, Fish Garden, El Gabalaya) is a historic 1867 Khedive Ismail garden with artificial grotto caves and aquariums on Zamalek island, Cairo, opened to the public in 1902 and registered as Islamic and Coptic antiquities.
Aquatic Botanical Garden
Aquatic Botanical Garden (수생식물학습원), a Korean aquatic plant garden in Daecheong Lake Garden, Okcheon, Chungcheongbuk-do, showing native and tropical water plants; reservations required, closed Sundays and January-February.
Arboretum
An arboretum is a documented living collection of trees and woody plants grown for research, conservation, education, and display, with labeled specimens distinguishing it from a public park.
Arches National Park
Arches National Park, near Moab in southeastern Utah, preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, the densest concentration on Earth. Established as a monument in 1929 and a park in 1971; record 1.8 million visits in 2021.
Arden Predator Park
Парк хижаків «Арден» (Arden Predator Park) is a 32-hectare wildlife rehabilitation center and zoo attraction opened in 2020 near Sataniv, Khmelnytska Oblast, Ukraine, within Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park, known for rescued bears, wolves, big cats, and a 1-km elevated forest walkway.
Arequipa zoo
Zoomundo, or Zoo Mundo Arequipa, is a private zoo in Paucarpata, Arequipa, Peru, opened in 1998, holding roughly 270 to 300 mostly rescued wild animals in state custody, member of ALPZA.
Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum
Haleakalā silversword (ʻāhinahina), Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum, an endangered Asteraceae rosette endemic to Haleakalā volcano, Maui, above 2,130 m; flowers once after 3–90 years, then dies.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: 98-acre Tucson fusion of zoo, botanical garden, natural history museum, aquarium, and art gallery founded in 1952 by William H. Carr, devoted solely to the Sonoran Desert.
Arlington Hotel (Hot Springs National Park)
Arlington Hotel (Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa), historic Hot Springs, Arkansas resort hotel: first opened 1875 as the state's largest hotel, rebuilt 1893, burned 1923, and the current George R. Mann Mediterranean Revival building completed 1924, with an in-house thermal bathhouse.
Aromatic Garden
Aromatic Garden (Aromagarten), Erlangen, Germany: 9,000 m2 university botanical garden of about 300 fragrant and aromatic plants, opened 1981, first garden named Aromagarten, free entry April-October.
Aromatic Plant Collection
Aromatic Plant Collection (百香园, Baixiang Yuan) is a spice-plant garden at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Mengla County, Yunnan; 86 mu, over 104 spice species, China's largest living spice-plant gene bank.
Arrowhead (National Park Service emblem)
The arrowhead is the official emblem of the United States National Park Service, adopted in 1951, showing a sequoia tree, bison, mountains, and water on badges, signs, and publications.
Asia (site)
Asia (site): a geographically themed Asian plant collection within a botanical garden, as at UC Berkeley's Asian Collection, Leiden's Hortus botanicus, and Bern's Asia area; distinct from the continent of Asia itself.
Assateague State Park
Assateague State Park is Maryland's only oceanfront state park, on Assateague Island's northern two miles, opened in 1965 with 345 beachside campsites, lifeguarded swimming, and wild horses.
Aswan Botanical Garden
Aswan Botanical Garden, on El Nabatat (Kitchener's) Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt, is a botanical garden and research station begun under Lord Kitchener in the 1890s, with seven sectors of tropical plants, a herbarium, seed bank, and museum.
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park is a wilderness park in northern Saskatchewan, protecting Canada's largest active sand dunes, the most northerly in the world, and endemic plants.
Auckland Domain
Pukekawa / Auckland Domain is Auckland's oldest park, set aside in 1841, containing the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Category 1 listed Domain Wintergardens, sports fields, and Māori and European heritage sites.
Austin J. Tobin Plaza
Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the World Trade Center's main public plaza in Lower Manhattan, named for the Port Authority executive director; original 1973 plaza with Koenig Sphere, now the 9/11 Memorial with twin reflecting pools.