Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Aihole (ಐಹೊಳೆ)

Aihole (Kannada: ಐಹೊಳೆ; ancient Aryapura) is a temple town in Bagalkot district, Karnataka, India, where the Early Chalukya dynasty built about 125 temples between the 6th and 8th centuries.

Ailsworth, a limestone conservation village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4.5 miles west of Peterborough, adjoining Castor; Domesday manor, four scheduled ancient monuments including Roman villas and a bowl barrow.

Ain el Hammam (Charef)

Ain el Hammam (Charef), Arabic Hammam Charef (حمام الشارف), is a Roman-era camp with bath and hot springs in Algeria's Charef district, 42 km west of Djelfa, dated to about 142 AD and now built over by a resort hotel.

Ain Hersha Roman Temple

Ain Hersha Roman Temple (معبد عين حرشا), also Ain Harcha, is a 116 AD Ionic distyle-in-antis Roman temple near Ain Harcha village, Bekaa, Lebanon, on Mount Hermon's western slope, on UNESCO's tentative list.

Aïn Melliti

Aïn Melliti (عين المليتي) is a village and archaeological site in Téboursouk, Béja Governorate, Tunisia, with Roman farms, a Byzantine fort and central-plan church, and the Koubba of Sidi Abdallah Melliti.

Ainesisphyra/Ennesyphora/Nesus

Ainesisphyra/Ennesyphora/Nesus, Greek Αἰνησίσφυρα λιμήν, is an ancient harbor name at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, recorded by Ptolemy, the Peutinger Table, and the Ravenna Cosmography for the Hellenistic-Roman Marmarica coast.

Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves

Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves (RNNAT), Niger: vast Saharan protected area of 7,736,000 ha around the Aïr massif and Ténéré dunes; World Heritage site 1991, in Danger since 1992, Biosphere Reserve 1997, addax sanctuary.

Aïr et Ténéré Biosphere Reserve

Aïr et Ténéré Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Agadez region, northern Niger, designated 1997, covering 24 million ha of the Aïr massif and Ténéré desert; its core and buffer zones form the 1991 World Heritage site, in danger since 1992.

Air Park

Air park (airpark) covers several aviation-related place types: airport-adjacent industrial parks (Wilmington, Goodyear, Westmoreland), static aircraft display parks (Maxwell AFB, 1983), the historic London Air Park at Hanworth, and residential airparks.

Air Planes

Air Planes (الطائرات) is a small theme park in Tiaret Province, Algeria, at 35.38597° N, 1.30789° E, near Bumper cars, game 12, and a Ferris wheel; OSM way 953023847.

Aislingen

Aislingen, a market town in Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, site of the earliest Tiberian Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube, destroyed 68/69 AD, with a mansio, medieval Doppelschanze, and Hochstift Augsburg rule until 1802.

Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城)

Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城), also called Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城), is a Japanese castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima. Founded 1384, rebuilt by Gamō Ujisato 1593, besieged 1868, demolished 1874, and reconstructed in 1965; its 2011 red-tiled keep is Japan's only one.

Ajina Tepe

Ajina Tepe (Ajina Tepa, "Devil's Hill") is a 7th-8th century Buddhist monastery ruin in the Vakhsh valley, southern Tajikistan, fully excavated 1961-1975, known for its four-ayvan plan and 12 m reclining Buddha.

Ajuda Botanical Garden

Jardim Botânico da Ajuda (Ajuda Botanical Garden), Lisbon; founded 1768 as Real Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, Portugal's first botanical garden and 15th in Europe, designed by Domingos Vandelli, now run by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia.

Ak-Mechet'

Ak-Mechet' (Ак-Мечеть, "white mosque") is a toponym for the Crimean Khanate city that became Simferopol, the town now called Chornomorske, associated Scythian burial sites, and a Kazakh memorial complex near Kulsary.

Ak-Zhayik Biosphere Reserve

Ak-Zhayik Biosphere Reserve (Ақжайық) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in western Kazakhstan, designated in 2014, protecting the Ural River delta wetlands and a major Eurasian bird migration route.

Akassia Aqua Park

Akassia Aqua Park (Akassia Splash World) is the resort water park of Akassia Swiss Resort, 36 km north of Marsa Alam Airport, El Quseir, Egypt, with 22 attractions including 12 adult slides, a wave pool, lazy river, and kids' Aqua Tower; shared by three hotels until its 2026 split into fenced zones.

Akbar's tomb

Akbar's tomb at Sikandra near Agra is the five-storey pyramidal mausoleum of Mughal emperor Akbar, begun by Akbar himself and completed by Jahangir (1612–1614), a red-sandstone and marble charbagh monument managed by the ASI.

Akbou des Beni Chénacha

Akbou des Beni Chénacha is a Roman-period villa site about 2 km southwest of Tadmaït (former Camp-du-Maréchal) in Algeria's Tizi Ouzou province, recorded by Gsell (AAA 6.20) and Barrington Atlas map 30, distinct from the Akbou mausoleum in Béjaïa province.

Akbou mausoleum

Akbou mausoleum (Mausolée romain d'Ausium, Piton d'Akbou): a 3rd-4th century AD Roman-period square tomb with pyramidion roof at Akbou, Bejaia Province, Algeria, attributed to a Romanized Numidian notable, nationally classified heritage in 2024.

Akchakhan-Kala

Akchakhan-Kala (Kazakly-yatkan), ancient Chorasmian royal seat in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan; two fortified enclosures of c. 42.6 ha, occupied c. late 3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE, famed for wall paintings and Zoroastrian imagery.

Akeldama

Akeldama (Aramaic חקל דמא, Aceldama, Field of Blood) is the Jerusalem site on the Hinnom Valley slope tied to Judas Iscariot's betrayal money, a Second Temple-period burial ground of rock-cut tombs, the Tomb of the Shroud, and the St. Onuphrius monastery.

Akershus Fortress

Akershus Fortress (Akershus festning), medieval castle and fortress in central Oslo begun around 1290 under King Håkon V; never taken by force, last siege 1716, WWII execution site, now museums and state venue.

Akītu-Temple of Ištar

Akītu-Temple of Ištar: the New Year's House (bīt akīti) of Ištar of Nineveh, attested from Tukultī-Ninurta I's reign, unlocated, renovated by Ashurbanipal, used in his Tebētu akītu festival.

Akontisma

Akontisma (Ἀκόντισμα), ancient fortified settlement east of Nea Karvali, Kavala, Greece; first Via Egnatia mansio after Neapolis, founded late 4th century BC under Cassander, listed by Hierocles among the cities of Illyricum.

Akshar Deri (અક્ષર દેરી)

Akshar Deri (અક્ષર દેરી) is the BAPS memorial shrine in Gondal, Gujarat, over the 1867 cremation spot of Gunatitanand Swami; Shastriji Maharaj built the three-shikhar Akshar Mandir above it, consecrated 23 May 1934.

Aksu - Zindan Mağarası Sanctuary

Zindan Mağarası sanctuary (Zindan Cave sanctuary, Meter Theon Veginos sanctuary), an ancient cave sanctuary 2 km northeast of Aksu, Isparta, Turkey, serving Timbriada in Pisidia; dedicated to Meter Theon Veginos, Zeus, Cybele, and the river god Eurymedon, with a Eurymedon-head mosaic, Roman bridge, and Byzantine monastery.