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The garden of the senses
The garden of the senses (Aistien puutarha, Sinnenas trädgård) is a sensory garden name shared by the 2017 Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden sensory garden in Helsinki and Stockholm's therapeutic Sinnenas trädgård, designed for touch, smell, taste, and accessibility.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is a pale-yellow gorge carved by the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and the subject of Thomas Moran's monumental 1872 painting.
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 lichen garden
The lichen garden (Jäkäläpuutarha, Lavträdgården) is a 2016 lichen display at Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, built from salvaged lichens, stones, and benches; similar lichen gardens exist in Australia, Scotland, and India.
The Narrows (Zion National Park)
The Narrows is the narrowest section of Zion Canyon, Utah, a Virgin River gorge with 1,000-foot walls 20–30 feet apart. Hiked bottom-up from Temple of Sinawava without a permit or top-down 16 miles with one; closed above 150 CFS.
The Oslo Ridge
The Oslo Ridge (Osloryggen) is a themed conservation bed in the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo, created in 2000 for the city's millennium, growing about 100 native inner-Oslofjord species including several threatened ones.
The Palisades (Hudson River)
The Palisades (Hudson River): diabase sill cliffs on the lower Hudson's west bank in New Jersey and New York, protected since 1900 by the bi-state Palisades Interstate Park Commission; National Historic and Natural Landmark.
The Pinnacles (Western Australia)
The Pinnacles are thousands of limestone pillars up to 5 m tall in the Pinnacles Desert, Nambung National Park, Western Australia, about 200 km north of Perth. Formed by karst dissolution of Tamala Limestone, dated to about 102,000 years ago; Yued Traditional Owner country and a major tourist site.
The Rock Garden
The Rock Garden: a garden style growing alpines and small rock plants among stones; notable Norwegian examples include Fjellhagen in Oslo (opened 1989), Bergen (2001), and Kongsvoll (1924).
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 Snow Capped Mountains Rose Manor
The Snow Capped Mountains Rose Manor (雪山玫瑰庄园) is a garden and flower-themed eco-tourism area in Baisha town, Yulong County, Lijiang, Yunnan, China, at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
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.
Thekkady
Thekkady (Thekkadi), a hill station in Idukki district, Kerala, India, at 900–1800 m on the Tamil Nadu border, is the gateway to Periyar Tiger Reserve, known for Periyar Lake boat safaris, bamboo rafting, and community-based ecotourism.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, formerly Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, protects 70,448 acres of North Dakota badlands in three units along the Little Missouri River, including Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch.
Three Rivers Park District
Three Rivers Park District is a regional park system in suburban Hennepin County, Minnesota, created by the state legislature in 1957, managing nearly 27,000 acres.
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.
Tierpark Walbeck
Tierpark Walbeck is a small zoo in the Walbeck district of Hettstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, the only zoo in Mansfeld-Südharz. Opened 1971, run by Trägerverein Tierpark Walbeck e. V., it holds native species plus llamas and nandus, draws about 38,000 visitors yearly, and receives EU/LEADER funding.
Tierwelt Rainguthof - Mondo degli Animali
Tierwelt Rainguthof (Mondo degli Animali), petting zoo in Gfrill, Tisens, South Tyrol, Italy; former mountain farm of the Piazzi family on the Gampen Pass road at ~1,100 m; donation entry, daily year-round, camels Laika and Alibaba, emus, Mangalitsa pigs.
Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a 250-acre National Park System unit in Utah's Wasatch Range, protecting three limestone caves known for helictites and aragonite frostwork, established in 1922.
Tishomingo State Park
Tishomingo State Park, a Mississippi state park in Tishomingo County at Natchez Trace Milepost 304, built by the CCC from 1935, named for a Chickasaw chief, with Appalachian-foot hill rock outcroppings, Bear Creek swinging bridge, 13 miles of trails, and a 2026 ice-storm closure.
Tohoku Safari Park
Tohoku Safari Park (東北サファリパーク) is a drive-through zoo in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan, with about 1,100 animals, white lions, car feeding, and documented animal welfare criticism; not a JAZA member.
Tokyo Medicinal Botanical Garden
Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden (東京都薬用植物園), in Kodaira, Tokyo, opened 1946 as a metropolitan medicinal plant cultivation field, renamed 1957; one of Japan's largest medicinal gardens, run by the Tokyo Shoyaku Association, free admission.
Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Park Zoo
Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Park Zoo (大島公園動物園) is a free-admission zoo on Izu Oshima, opened 1935, the only zoo in the Izu Islands, with a lava-built monkey mountain, walk-through Flying Cage, and rare-species breeding such as the Japanese wood pigeon.
Tombstone Territorial Park
Tombstone Territorial Park (Ddhäl Ch'èl Cha Nän, "ragged mountain land") is a 2,200 km² Yukon territorial park designated in 2004 under the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Final Agreement, bisected by the Dempster Highway and protecting permafrost landforms, wildlife and First Nations heritage.
Tongariro National Park
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park (fourth in the world), created from the 1887 Ngāti Tūwharetoa gift of the Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu summits; dual World Heritage site since 1993.
Toraiwa Jumokuen Botanical Garden
Toraiwa Jumokuen (虎岩樹木園) is a small private arboretum in Iida City, Nagano, Japan, opened by retired teacher Kenichi Ikeda, with labeled trees and flowers near the Sagasaka zazenso habitat and Akiba Kaido road.
Torres del Paine National Park
Torres del Paine National Park (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine), Chilean Patagonia park created 1959, 227,298 ha, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 1978; granite Paine massif, W and O trekking circuits, over 250,000 annual visitors, administered by CONAF.
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.