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MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park, formerly Westlake Park, is a roughly 40-acre Los Angeles park in Westlake, renamed for General Douglas MacArthur in 1942, bisected by Wilshire Boulevard in 1934, and known for its lake, protest history, and recent stormwater and reconnect projects.
Madeira Botanical Garden Engineer Rui Vieira
Madeira Botanical Garden – Eng. Rui Vieira (Jardim Botânico da Madeira), public botanical garden in Funchal created 30 April 1960, named for first director Rui Manuel da Silva Vieira; 8 ha, over 2,000 exotic plants, endemic-species conservation.
Madidi National Park
Madidi National Park (Parque Nacional y ANMI Madidi) is a 1,895,750-hectare Bolivian protected area created in 1995 in northwest La Paz department, spanning Andes-to-Amazon elevations and ranking among the world's most biodiverse parks, with community ecotourism at Chalalán.
Madurodam
Madurodam, in The Hague, Netherlands, is a 1:25-scale miniature attraction park opened 2 July 1952 as a memorial to war hero George Maduro, with 430 miniatures, seven indoor attractions, and revenue donated to children's charities.
Majorelle Garden
Majorelle Garden (Jardin Majorelle, حديقة ماجوريل) is a one-hectare botanical garden in Marrakech created by painter Jacques Majorelle from 1923, famed for Majorelle Blue, saved by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1980, and now run by the Fondation Jardin Majorelle with a Berber museum.
Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park (Lakota maco sica, "bad land") is Montana's largest state park, 11,538 acres of Hell Creek Formation badlands near Glendive with Triceratops, T. rex, and rare Thescelosaurus fossils, a K-T boundary exposure, Buzzard Day, and over 100,000 annual visitors.
Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave in Mammoth Cave National Park, central Kentucky, is the world's longest known cave system, with 426 miles of surveyed passages and over 130 cave-dwelling species.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Park is a 52,830-acre U.S. national park in Kentucky protecting Mammoth Cave, the world's longest mapped cave (628 km), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981 and Biosphere Reserve core since 1990.
Manas National Park
Manas National Park, Assam, India: Himalayan-foothill protected area, UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985), Tiger Reserve, and Biosphere Reserve; lost rhinos to 1990s unrest, recovered them via Indian Rhino Vision 2020.
Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden
Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden (Маңғышлақ тәжірибелік-ботаникалық бағы) in Aktau, Kazakhstan, founded 1972; the only Western Kazakhstan scientific garden mobilizing plant gene pools in extra-arid desert conditions, 39 ha, 1,270 taxa.
Mankus Eco Park
Mankus Eco Park (Մանկուս Էկո Պարկ) is a family eco-resort in Dzoraghbyur, Kotayk, Armenia, run by Mankus Eco LLC since 2020, offering glamping and cottages, horse riding, archery, and an Armenian-European restaurant.
Manlong Guiyu (Hangzhou Children's Park)
Manlong Guiyu (满陇桂雨), also Hangzhou Children's Park, is a West Lake New Top 10 scenic site on Hupao Road with 3,000+ osmanthus trees of 80+ varieties and Hangzhou's earliest-blooming 'star osmanthus' tree.
Many Glacier Hotel
Many Glacier Hotel, a Swiss-style National Historic Landmark resort on Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, built by the Great Northern Railway 1914-15, opened July 4, 1915, then Montana's largest hotel.
Manyo Botanical Garden
Manyo Botanical Garden (萬葉植物園), at Kasuga Taisha in Nara, Japan, opened 1932 as the country's oldest Man'yō botanical garden, displaying about 300 plant species named in the Man'yōshū, founded by scholar Sasaki Nobutsuna.
Maquoketa Caves State Park
Maquoketa Caves State Park, a Jackson County, Iowa state park near Maquoketa, holds more caves than any other Iowa state park, about 13 including 1,100-foot Dancehall Cave, with six miles of trails, CCC-era structures, and annual winter cave closures for hibernating bats.
Margam Country Park
Margam Country Park near Port Talbot, South Wales: 850-acre Grade I listed parkland with Margam Castle (1830s), 1147 Cistercian abbey ruins, 327-ft Orangery, deer herd, and 2026 Roman villa discovery.
Margerie Glacier
Margerie Glacier is a 21-mile-long tidewater glacier at Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, with a 200-foot ice face, flowing about 6 feet per day, now receding after decades of stability.
Marine Drive, Mumbai
Marine Drive (Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road), Mumbai's 3.6-km C-shaped Queen's Necklace seafront, built on 1920s Backbay reclamation, part of the 2018 UNESCO Art Deco ensemble, now facing tunnel-linked widening.
Marine reserves of New Zealand
Marine reserves of New Zealand are no-take areas under the Marine Reserves Act 1971, the country's highest marine protection. 44 reserves cover 17,178 km² (9.5% of the territorial sea), mostly around the Kermadec and Subantarctic Islands; the first, Goat Island, dates to 1975.
Massacre Rocks State Park
Massacre Rocks State Park is a 990-acre Idaho state park on the Snake River near American Falls, named for boulders that formed a narrow gap on the Oregon and California Trails.
Mata-Jardim José do Canto
Mata-Jardim José do Canto is a landscaped woodland garden on Lagoa das Furnas, São Miguel, Azores, created by José do Canto (1820–1898) with species acclimated at his Ponta Delgada garden; it includes the Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias.
McNabs Island
McNabs Island, largest island at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, part of McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park; Mi'kmaq, McNab family farming, and fortifications including Fort McNab National Historic Site.
Medicinal Gardens
Medicinal Gardens: gardens dedicated to growing medicinal plants, from the first European physic garden at Pisa (1543, Luca Ghini) to India's CCRAS demonstrative gardens, NMPB-funded herbal gardens, and Odisha's Lok Bhavan and Ekamra Van gardens.
Medicinal Herb Garden
A medicinal herb garden is a garden of labeled medicinal plants, originally supplying physicians and apothecaries with authentic remedies; the first was Luca Ghini's garden in Pisa in 1543.
Medicinal plants garden
Garden of Medicinal Plants (薬用植物園): a cultivated collection of drug-yielding plants for pharmacy teaching, research, and conservation. Examples include Kyoto Pharmaceutical University's garden (over 1,000 species), Takeda's Kyoto garden, and Keio's garden.
Medicine Garden
Medicine garden (hortus medicus; German Arzneigarten): a cultivated garden of medicinal plants for teaching, research, and display. European university physic gardens began at Pisa in 1543; modern beds are organized by active constituents, body systems, or medical history.
Mediterranean Department
The Mediterranean Department is a section of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Adjara, Georgia, created in the 1930s to display plants native to the Mediterranean region.
Mediterranean Garden (Montenegro)
The Mediterranean Garden (Mediteranski vrt) is a volunteer-built aromatic-plant garden on Gorica Hill, Podgorica, Montenegro, opened in 2018 by the Association of Gorica and Nature Admirers, with about 1,000 mainly Mediterranean aromatic plants on a 3,000 m² site.
Mediterranean garden of Brijuni
Mediterranean Garden of Brijuni (Mediteranski vrt), a 17,000 m2 display garden on Veliki Brijun in Brijuni National Park, Croatia. Established 2007 on a former forest nursery, it holds about 170 autochthonous and exotic plant species labelled with QR codes.
Medora, North Dakota
Medora, North Dakota, is a small Badlands town founded in 1883 by the Marquis de Mores, now the gateway to Theodore Roosevelt National Park and its library.