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Bern Botanic Garden
Bern Botanic Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern, BOGA) is the University of Bern's botanical garden at Altenbergrain 21, Bern, founded 1789, at its current Aare-slope site since 1859-62, with over 6,000 plant species, seven greenhouses, a 500,000-specimen herbarium, and free daily admission.
Berne Animal Park
Berne Animal Park (Tierpark Bern, Tierpark Dählhölzli) is Bern's municipal zoo, opened 5 June 1937 in the Dählhölzli forest, funded partly by William Gabus's 150,000-franc legacy, with the free BearPark added in 2009.
Betty Reid Soskin
Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025), America's oldest National Park Service ranger, retired at 100 in 2022; a Black WWII home front clerk who reshaped the Rosie the Riveter park's story.
Białowieża Forest (Белавежская пушча)
Białowieża Forest (Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Puszcza Białowieska) is a 141,885-ha transboundary UNESCO World Heritage primary forest on the Poland–Belarus border, home to the largest free-roaming European bison population and the site of a major logging and border-barrier conservation conflict.
Bibi Gol Botanical Garden
Bibi Gol Botanical Garden (باغ گیاه شناسی بی بی گل) is a botanical garden near Torbat-e Heydarieh, Razavi Khorasan, Iran, beside the Bibi Hasaniyeh tomb, with a nearby Bibi Gol Garden and greenhouse garden center.
Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park: 801,163-acre Texas park on the Rio Grande border, established 1944, largest protected Chihuahuan Desert in the US, famed for geology and Quetzalcoatlus fossils.
Biidaasige Park
Biidaasige Park is a roughly 60-acre waterfront park on Ookwemin Minising, a new island in Toronto's Port Lands created by rerouting the Don River, opening in phases from July 2025.
Biodiversity Park (Argentina)
Biodiversity Park (Parque de la Biodiversidad): two Argentine sites of this name, the 17-hectare former Córdoba Zoo turned wildlife rescue and education park (reopened 2023, Ente BioCórdoba) and a 10-hectare protected landscape in Rivadavia, San Juan, from a 1979 fish-culture station.
Bioparc València
Bioparc València (Bioparc Valencia) is a zoo in Valencia, Spain, opened February 2008, replacing the Viveros Zoo. Known for zoo-immersion design without visible barriers, ~1,000 animals of 150 African species, EAZA breeding programs, and a planned Silk Road expansion.
Biscayne National Park
Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, protects Biscayne Bay, the northernmost Florida Keys, mangrove shoreline, and the northern Florida Reef Tract. Authorized 1968 as a monument, redesignated 1980; about 95 percent water.
Bismarck Archipelago (protected area)
Bismarck Archipelago (protected area): FEOW freshwater ecoregion 817 off northeast New Guinea, PNG, covering New Britain, New Ireland, and Manus; one endemic fish, Stenogobius alleni; conservation via the Bismarck Forest Corridor, Bismarck Seascape, and the 2025-2030 SoNG project.
Bison compound
Pokazowa Zagroda Żubrów (European Bison Show Farm), Pszczyna, Poland: bison display and breeding compound in the historic Pszczyna Park, opened 1 June 2008, keeping the Pszczyna (PL) lowland bison subline on almost 10 hectares.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, western Colorado near Montrose, a 1999 park protecting a 48-mile gorge cut by the Gunnison River through 1.7-billion-year-old gneiss and schist, up to 2,722 feet deep.
Black Park
Black Park (Black Park Country Park) is a 217-hectare country park at Wexham, south Buckinghamshire, near Slough, designated in 1970; known for heathland SSSI, Black Park Lake, Go Ape, and Pinewood Studios filming.
Black's Beach
Black's Beach (Torrey Pines City Beach and State Beach) is a two-mile San Diego beach beneath 300-foot cliffs, known for expert winter surf, difficult cliff access, and a customary clothing-optional northern section.
Blackwater Falls State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park, in Tucker County near Davis, West Virginia, centers on a 57-foot amber cascade on the Blackwater River. Established 1937, it offers a 51-room lodge, 39 cabins, 65 campsites, 20 miles of trails, and the East Coast's longest sledding magic carpet.
Blue Ridge Parkway
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile National Park Service scenic road linking Shenandoah to Great Smoky Mountains national parks; begun in 1935, it is often called America's Favorite Drive.
Bois de Boulogne
Bois de Boulogne: 846-hectare public woodland in Paris's 16th arrondissement, former royal hunting ground (forêt de Rouvray), redesigned from 1852 under Napoleon III by Hittorff, Alphand, and Haussmann, with lakes, Bagatelle, and the Jardin d'Acclimatation.
Bois de Vincennes
Bois de Vincennes (originally Vilcena) is Paris' largest green space, a 995-hectare wooded park on the city's east, a former royal hunting forest landscaped under Napoleon III, with four lakes, the Parc Zoologique de Paris, and the Parc Floral.
Boissonna Garden
Jardin de Boissonna, Boissonna Garden: private English-style garden in Baleyssagues, Lot-et-Garonne, France, created in 1998 by Georges Beylard, labeled Jardin remarquable in 2009, with about 460 rose varieties and a tea room.
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens, also called Historic Bok Sanctuary, is a National Historic Landmark garden and 205-foot Singing Tower with a 60-bell carillon in Lake Wales, Florida, dedicated by President Coolidge on February 1, 1929.
Bonsai Garden (China)
Bonsai Garden (盆景园) is the Chinese garden type dedicated to displaying penjing, the Chinese art of miniature potted trees and landscapes. Notable examples include the Bao Family Garden in Huangshan (nearly 10,000 penjing, 21.73 ha), the National Botanical Garden in Beijing (20,000 m2), and Fairy Lake Botanical Garden in Shenzhen.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Park Service site in Franklin County, Virginia, preserving the tobacco farm where Washington was born into slavery in 1856.
Boston Common
Boston Common is America's oldest public park, a roughly 50-acre downtown Boston green held in common since its 1634 purchase from William Blackstone, now a National Register-listed park with the Frog Pond undergoing a $23 million master-plan renovation.
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, also the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, is a 1996 partnership park of 34 islands and peninsulas in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, jointly managed by federal, state, municipal, and nonprofit agencies.
Botanic Garden Meise
Botanic Garden Meise (Plantentuin Meise, Agentschap Plantentuin Meise) is a Flemish-managed botanical garden and research institution in Meise, Belgium, founded 1797 in Brussels, moved to its 92-hectare estate in 1938, with a 3-million-specimen herbarium and Belgium's only standard seed bank.
Botanic Garden of University of Valencia
Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia (Jardí Botànic de la Universitat de València), founded 1567 as a medicinal-plant garden, moved to the Huerto de Tramoyeres in 1802; about 4,500 species, 1862 iron greenhouse, BIC since 2006.
Botanical Building (United States)
Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego: 1915 redwood lath and steel plant exhibit hall by Carleton Winslow under Bertram Goodhue; 250 by 75 by 60 feet; one of four permanent 1915 Exposition structures; restored and reopened December 2024.
Botanical garden
Ботанічний сад (botanical garden): an institution holding documented living plant collections for research, conservation, display, and education; 1,775 gardens in 148 countries, descended from 16th-century Italian physic gardens.
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Orto Botanico di Padova, the University of Padua's botanical garden founded in 1545 as a medicinal "garden of simples"; the world's oldest university botanical garden on its original site, UNESCO-listed since 1997.