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Yanggusaengtae Florist
Yanggusaengtae Florist (Yanggu Eco-Botanical Garden, 양구생태식물원, now Yanggu Arboretum) is a 2004 public botanical garden in Yanggu, Gangwon, South Korea, near the DMZ, holding over 400 rare plants across 189,141 m².
Yanjiao Botanical Garden
Yanjiao Botanical Garden (燕郊植物园), a comprehensive urban botanical garden on Yingbin Road, Sanhe, Langfang, Hebei, near Beijing; about 1,070 mu, renovated from 2004 with a 170-million-yuan plan, seasonal lakes, science hall, and a garden for blind visitors.
Yao Garden
Yao Garden, a Japanese-style garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington, honoring Bellevue's sister city Yao, Japan; established 1971 at Kelsey Creek Park, relocated 1992, opened 1994, with a Sukiya-style gate.
Yehuda Naftali Botanic Garden
Yehuda Naftali Botanic Garden (הגן הבוטני ע״ש יהודה נפתלי), Tel Aviv University's botanical garden, founded early 1970s, renamed 2019 for donor Yehuda Naftali; 34,000 sq m, ~3,800 species, endangered-plant shelter.
Yellowstone fires of 1988
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 were a series of wildfires that burned about 1.4 million acres in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem between June and September 1988, prompting a national review of fire policy.
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake is a large freshwater lake in Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming, the largest high-elevation lake in North America, sitting at 7,733 feet.
Yerevan Botanical Garden
Yerevan Botanical Garden (Երևանի բուսաբանական այգի), Armenia's national botanical garden, founded 1935; 80 ha semi-desert site in northeastern Yerevan with about 5,000 species, a 1.5 ha Armenian flora plot, and the new Park of Life project.
Yoho National Park
Yoho National Park: 1,313 km² national park in southeast British Columbia, established 1886, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, home to the Burgess Shale fossils, Kicking Horse River, and Takakkaw Falls.
Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo
Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo (金沢動物園), opened 1982 in Kanazawa Nature Park, Yokohama, is a municipal zoo of about 50 species and 1,000 animals specializing in rare herbivores, with koalas, a kangaroo walk-through, and Ministry of the Environment rare-species certification.
Yosemite Falls
Yosemite Falls, in Yosemite Valley, California, drops 2,425 ft (740 m) in three sections (Upper 1,430 ft, cascades 675 ft, Lower 320 ft) on snowmelt-fed Yosemite Creek, peaking in May and often running dry by late summer.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, is a 747,956-acre park first protected in 1864 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, known for granite cliffs, waterfalls, glacially carved Yosemite Valley, giant sequoia groves, and about 95 percent designated wilderness.
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley: glacially carved U-shaped valley in the Sierra Nevada, California, drained by the Merced River; protected by the 1864 Yosemite Grant, part of Yosemite National Park since 1890.
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.
Yucca House National Monument
Yucca House National Monument is an unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan valley pueblo in Montezuma County, Colorado, established by Woodrow Wilson's 1919 proclamation, now about 194 acres, administered by Mesa Verde National Park.
Yunfu Botanical Garden
Yunfu Botanical Garden (云浮植物园), a municipal botanical garden at Zidaitang in Nanshan Forest Park, Yuncheng District, Yunfu, Guangdong; 643 mu planned, 652 native plant species, germplasm repository and science education site.
Yunxi Botanical Garden
Yunxi Botanical Garden (云溪植物园), Guangzhou's first municipal botanical garden at Baiyun Mountain's west foot, opened 8 August 2024; 83 ha, 35 ha core, 1,300+ conserved species, national ex-situ conservation demonstration area.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is an overlook in Death Valley National Park, California, above badlands of the Pliocene Furnace Creek Formation, named for borax executive Christian Brevoort Zabriskie and famed for views of Manly Beacon.
Zagreb Botanical Garden
Zagreb Botanical Garden (Botanički vrt), University of Zagreb Faculty of Science garden founded 1889 by Antun Heinz; 4.7 ha, ~6,500 taxa, 1891 exhibition greenhouse, protected monument since 1971.
Zhengzhou Botanical Garden
Zhengzhou Botanical Garden (郑州植物园) is a free municipal botanical garden in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, Henan, covering 1,035 mu with 1,876 species, 15 specialized gardens, and Henan's only tropical plant exhibition greenhouse, a 5,400 m2 bianzhong-inspired hall with ground-source heat pump climate control.
Zion National Park
Zion National Park, southwestern Utah: 148,732-acre park where the Virgin River cut a deep canyon through Navajo Sandstone. Utah's most-visited national park, over 4.9 million visits in 2024, second in the US; mandatory shuttle, Angels Landing permits, The Narrows.
Zone of Death (Yellowstone)
Zone of Death (Yellowstone): a roughly 50-square-mile uninhabited Idaho strip of Yellowstone National Park under the District of Wyoming, where the Sixth Amendment vicinage clause may block jury trials; named by Brian Kalt in 2005, untested in court.
Zoo Limpopo
Zoo Limpopo (Зоопарк «Лімпопо»), formally Medenychi Limpopo Zoo, is a private zoo in Medenychi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, with about 500 animals; after the 2022 invasion it took in animals evacuated from other zoos.
Zoológico de Piedras (Cuba)
Zoológico de Piedras (Stone Zoo), Alto de Boquerón, Yateras, Guantánamo Province, Cuba: an open-air park of over 400 limestone animal sculptures carved in situ from 1977 by Ángel Iñigo Blanco (1935–2014), continued by his son Ángel Iñigo Pérez; declared Cuban cultural heritage in 1977 and national patrimony in 1985.
Zoológico Municipal de Uberlândia
Zoológico Municipal de Uberlândia, a public zoo in Parque do Sabiá, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil; over 300,000 m², rescued Cerrado wildlife, managed by the city; converting to an environmental education park from January 2026.
Zoosad Edemsky Sad
Zoosad Edemsky Sad (Garden of Eden), near Zhirovichi, Slonim District, Belarus: a monastery-run zoological garden on the former Soltan estate, with a 22-hectare orchard, 55-hectare farmstead, and donation-based entry.
Zugdidi Botanical Gardens
Zugdidi Botanical Garden (ზუგდიდის ბოტანიკური ბაღი), a 26-hectare historic garden in Zugdidi, Georgia, founded 1840 by Prince David Dadiani beside the Dadiani Palace, designed by Joseph Babin, rehabilitated 2018–2019.
Zverinets (Gatchina)
Ecological trail and menagerie (Экалагічная сцежка і звярынец): the marked ecotrail through Zverinets park, Gatchina, a former 18th-century imperial hunting menagerie of about 391 ha, now part of the Gatchina museum-reserve and UNESCO site.
Þingvellir National Park
Þingvellir National Park (Thingvellir), Iceland: site of the Alþing general assembly (c. 930–1798), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004, and a Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley with Lake Þingvallavatn and the Silfra fissure.
Дэндрапарк (дендропарк, w1433372047)
Дэндрапарк (Dendrapark) is a small recreation park of about 5 ha in Minsk Region, Belarus, near Vileyka and the oxbow lake возера Гусінка; OpenStreetMap way 416065756, coordinates 54.4769° N, 26.91668° E.
Міні-зоопарк (мини зоопарк)
Міні-зоопарк (мини зоопарк), or mini zoo: a small-scale zoo. In India a formal CZA category under the Recognition of Zoo Rules 2009; colloquially a petting zoo or small animal exhibit.