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Botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus
The botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus are scientific institutions that grow and conserve living plant collections across the Middle East, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus.
Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu
Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu (BZA), Brno-Ponava: botanical garden and arboretum of Mendel University, founded 1938 by August Bayer, 11 ha, five sections, 4000 orchid taxa, Iris and Barvy podzimu exhibitions.
Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy
Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy, the Botanical Garden of Charles University's Faculty of Science, founded 1775 at Smíchov, at Na Slupi 16, Prague 2 since 1898; 3.5 ha, free outdoor areas, paid tropical greenhouse.
Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich
Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich: the University of Zurich's botanical garden at Zollikerstrasse 107, opened 27 May 1977 on the Villa Schönau estate, with three acrylic geodesic greenhouse domes and roughly 7,000–8,000 plant species; free entry.
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico's first state park (1933), near Roswell: a chain of eight sinkhole lakes, 17 to 90 feet deep, fed by artesian groundwater, with swimming at Lea Lake, camping, and trails.
Breaks Interstate Park
Breaks Interstate Park, the Breaks, is a bi-state Kentucky–Virginia park established 1954, one of only two US interstate parks, centered on the five-mile Breaks Canyon of the Russell Fork, the Grand Canyon of the South.
Brecon Beacons
Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) is a Welsh national park designated in 1957; on 17 April 2023 its authority adopted the Welsh name, meaning Peaks of Brychan's Kingdom, alongside a net-zero-by-2035 management plan.
Brecon Beacons National Park
Brecon Beacons National Park, also known as Bannau Brycheiniog or Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog, is a national park in South Wales designated in 1957 and covering about 520 square miles.
Bright Angel Lodge
Bright Angel Lodge: 1935 Mary Colter-designed historic hotel on the Grand Canyon South Rim, operated by Xanterra, with 90 units, the Buckey O'Neill Cabin, and the Geologic Fireplace.
Brindavan Gardens
Brindavan Gardens (ಬೃಂದಾವನ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ), also called Vrindavan Garden Mysore, is a terraced Mughal-style garden below the KRS Dam in Mandya, Karnataka, built 1927–1932 under Dewan Mirza Ismail and famous for its musical fountain.
Brissago Islands
Brissago Islands (Isole di Brissago): two Swiss islands in Lake Maggiore, Ticino, forming the canton's botanical garden. Isola Grande holds about 1,700 subtropical species on 2.5 ha; founded 1885 by Baroness de Saint-Léger, opened to the public 1950.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), founded 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, is a 52-acre not-for-profit botanic garden beside Prospect Park, known for its 1915 Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden by Takeo Shiota, cherry blossom festival, and education programs.
Bryant Park
Bryant Park, a Midtown Manhattan public park beside the New York Public Library, was a potter's field (1823–1840), hosted the Croton Reservoir and Crystal Palace, was renamed for William Cullen Bryant in 1884, redesigned in 1934, and restored by 1992.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park, a Utah national park on the Paunsaugunt Plateau (established 1928), holds the world's largest collection of hoodoos, carved from the Claron Formation by ice wedging, and is a Gold Tier International Dark Sky Park.
Buck Island Reef National Monument
Buck Island Reef National Monument is a mostly underwater National Park Service monument north of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, established by President Kennedy in 1961.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain, formally the Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain, is a 1927 Grant Park landmark in Chicago, funded by Kate Buckingham, inspired by Versailles' Latona Basin, with a 150-foot center jet and hourly light and water displays.
Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden
Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden, Grădina Botanică Bucov, is a botanical garden in Bucov, Prahova County, Romania, opened in 2014 as a section of the Prahova County Museum of Natural Sciences, on about 15 ha with English, French, Italian, and alpine sections.
Budakeszi Arborétum
Budakeszi Arborétum, a Hungarian forest arboretum near Budakeszi, founded 1959 from 1949 Forestry Research Institute plantations; about 1,000 exotic conifer taxa, strictly protected since 1978, opened to the public in 2016, managed by Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt.
Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden
Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden (Fővárosi Állat- és Növénykert), opened 9 August 1866 in Budapest's City Park; Hungary's oldest and most-visited zoo, with 7,452 animals of 658 species, historic Kós buildings, and the Biodome Urban Oasis.
Buddhism Garden
A Buddhism garden is a garden designed or planted around Buddhist meaning, spanning temple gardens, Zen dry landscapes, and modern contemplative gardens built on Buddhist themes.
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens (Jardín Japonés), a 2.5-hectare Japanese-style garden in Palermo's Parque Tres de Febrero, inaugurated 17 May 1967 for Crown Prince Akihito's visit, redesigned by Yasuo Inomata, run by the Japanese Argentine Cultural Foundation.
Buki Landscape and Temple Complex
Buki landscape and temple complex (Ландшафтно-храмовий комплекс "Буки"), a private park in Buki village, Kyiv Oblast, founded 1996 by Ivan Suslov on a former dump; temple complex by architect Yuriy Babych won the 2007 State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture.
Burgess Falls State Park
Burgess Falls State Park, also Burgess Falls State Natural Area, is a day-use Tennessee state park in Putnam and White Counties where the Falling Water River drops nearly 250 feet over three waterfalls, the last plunging more than 130 feet.
Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens, a 55-acre display garden in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, created from 1904 by Jennie Butchart in an exhausted limestone quarry; National Historic Site of Canada since 2004, family run, over one million visitors yearly.
Cacti and Succulent Garden
Cacti and succulent gardens are botanical displays of water-storing plants, from Panchkula's seven-acre Asian landmark to Beijing's 1,200 m² Cactus Succulent House, Singapore's Sun Pavilion, and Shenzhen's renamed 2016 collection.
Cactus Park Ayia Napa
Cactus Park Ayia Napa (Park of Mediterranean Plants, Cacti and Succulents) is a free municipal garden in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, created in 2015 beside the Sculpture Park, holding thousands of cacti and succulents over about 40 acres with sea views.
Cades Cove
Cades Cove (Cherokee Tsiyahi, "Otter Place") is a 6,800-acre valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, settled by John Oliver in 1818, displaced for the park in the 1920s-1940s, and toured today on an 11-mile loop road.
Cairngorms National Park
Cairngorms National Park, Scotland's second national park (established 2003, extended 2010), is the UK's largest national park in the Highlands, managed by the Cairngorms National Park Authority, with about 2 million annual visitors, three ski centres, and a major 2026 wildfire.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a California state park near Arnold established 1931, preserves North and South groves of giant sequoias first publicized by Augustus T. Dowd's 1852 discovery, with prescribed fire management since the 1970s.
Camp David
Camp David (Naval Support Facility Thurmont) is the U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, built 1938, named Shangri-La by Roosevelt, renamed by Eisenhower in 1953, site of the 1978 Camp David Accords.