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Gran Pajatén Biosphere Reserve
Gran Pajatén Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Gran Pajatén), Peru's largest biosphere reserve at 2,509,698.84 ha, designated by UNESCO in 2016 across Amazonas, La Libertad, and San Martín, with Río Abiseo National Park as core zone and the Chachapoya Gran Pajatén fortress.
Granada UNESCO Global Geopark
Granada UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque de Granada), designated 2020 in Andalusia, Spain: 4,722 km², 47 municipalities, Guadix-Baza basin badlands, Quaternary mammal fossils, cave houses, 73 geological interest sites.
Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground, established 1660 on Tremont Street, is Boston's third oldest cemetery and a Freedom Trail site. Burials include Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Crispus Attucks; a 2025 find revealed the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died 1728/29.
Grand Aquarium
Grand Aquarium (海洋奇觀) is the main public aquarium of Ocean Park Hong Kong, opened 21 January 2011 in Aqua City; 5,244,000 litres, 5,000 fish of 400+ species, 13 m acrylic panel and 5.5 m dome, distinct from Hurghada and Saint-Malo namesakes.
Grand Canyon Depot
Grand Canyon Depot, or Grand Canyon Railroad Station, is a 1909-1910 log depot at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, designed by Francis W. Wilson for the Santa Fe Railway; a National Historic Landmark terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams.
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park: Arizona national park (est. 1919) protecting 278 miles of the Colorado River and a mile-deep canyon, homeland of 11 tribes, with about five million annual visitors.
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, in Mercer and Auglaize counties, western Ohio, centers on Ohio's largest inland lake, built 1837–1845 as a feeder reservoir for the Miami and Erie Canal and dedicated as a state park in 1949.
Grand Loou (France)
Grand Loou (Villa du Loou, Villa Marius), Gallo-Roman wine-producing villa at La Roquebrussanne, Var, France. Discovered 1977, excavated 1978–1983; about 5,000 m², 1,100 hl wine per year, founded 46 BC for a 6th legion veteran.
Grand mausolée des Flavii
Grand mausolée des Flavii (Mausoleum of the Flavii, ضريح فلافيوس): three-story Roman tower mausoleum at Kasserine, ancient Cillium, Tunisia, 14 m tall, bearing CIL VIII 211–216 and the Roman world's longest epigraphic poem, 110 verses, for the veteran family of T. Flavius Secundus.
Grand Teton
Grand Teton, highest peak of Wyoming's Teton Range at 13,770 ft in Grand Teton National Park; also called Les Trois Tetons. Known for 2.7-billion-year-old gneiss, Teton fault uplift, 1898 first ascent, and classic climbing routes.
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park, in northwestern Wyoming, protects the Teton Range, Jackson Hole, and the Snake River. Created 1929, expanded 1950; 310,044 acres; Grand Teton peak 13,770 feet; over 2 million annual visitors.
Grande Casino
Grande Casino, or Le Grande Casino, is a 24-hour casino at Harbour View Towers, Samora Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, run by Thinamy Entertainment Ltd, offering slots, table games and poker; distinct from a same-named Kinshasa casino.
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is a Brazilian Cerrado national park created in 1989 and expanded in 2004 to about 230,853 hectares in Minas Gerais and Bahia, named for Guimarães Rosa's novel and protecting jaguars, maned wolves, and vereda wetlands.
Grandfather Mountain
Grandfather Mountain is a 5,946-foot Blue Ridge peak in western North Carolina, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with a free state park and a separate private attraction featuring the Mile High Swinging Bridge.
Grands affluents
Grands affluents (Ramsar Site no. 1742) is a 5,908,074-hectare Wetland of International Importance in the Republic of the Congo, designated 13 December 2007 and named for the Oubangui, Sangha, Likouala-Mossaka, and Alima rivers, the Congo River's main right-bank tributaries.
Grandview Mall Aquarium
Grandview Mall Aquarium, or Zhengjia Polar Ocean World (正佳极地海洋世界), is a 58,000 m2 indoor polar aquarium on floors 2-3 of Grandview Mall, Guangzhou; China's first mall aquarium, opened January 2016, known for its belugas, Pizza the polar bear controversy, and welfare criticism.
Grange stone circle
Grange stone circle (Lios na Grainsi), near Lough Gur, County Limerick, is Ireland's largest stone circle: 113 contiguous standing stones about 46 m across, embanked by an earthen bank, excavated in 1939, with Beaker pottery finds and disputed astronomical alignments.
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park near Yarnell, Arizona, dedicated 2016, memorializes 19 Prescott hotshot firefighters killed June 30, 2013 in the Yarnell Hill Fire, with a 7-mile memorial trail to the fatality site.
Granoialo
Granoialo: ancient villa near Granéjouls, Cahuzac-sur-Vère, Tarn, France (Barrington Atlas 25 G2, 30 BC-AD 640); name from Latin granum plus Celtic -ialo; 9th-century form Granoialo.
Grant's Tomb
Grant's Tomb (General Grant National Memorial) is John H. Duncan's 1897 mausoleum in Riverside Park, Manhattan, holding Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant in above-ground sarcophagi; largest mausoleum in North America, dedicated April 27, 1897.
Grassland Ecological Area (GEA)
Grassland Ecological Area (GEA), Ramsar site no. 1451, is a 65,000-hectare wetland complex in Merced County, California, designated 2 February 2005; the largest remaining contiguous freshwater wetland block in California, hosting hundreds of thousands of wintering waterbirds on the Pacific Flyway.
Grave Circle A at Mycenae
Grave Circle A at Mycenae: royal shaft-grave precinct inside the citadel, six graves, 19 burials, excavated by Schliemann 1876 and Stamatakis 1877, source of the Mask of Agamemnon.
Grave Circle B
Grave Circle B at Mycenae: early Mycenaean royal cemetery of 26 shaft and cist graves, 28 m across, about 130 m west of the Lion Gate; excavated 1951–1954 by Papadimitriou and Mylonas; 35 elite burials, MH III–LH I.
Grave of Charmylos
Grave of Charmylos (Τάφος Χαρμύλου, Charmyleion), also called Harmyleion or Tomb of Charmylos: a vaulted heroön tomb on Kos, Greece, near Pyli, identified by inscription as the sepulchre of the heroised king Charmylos, set in a temenos and partly reused in the church of Tímios Stávros.
Grave robbery
Grave robbery, also known as body snatching or tomb robbing, is the unauthorized disturbance of burial sites to remove bodies or grave goods, documented since ancient Egypt.
Gravitation Jumping Center
Gravitation Jumping Center (Джампінг-центр «Гравітація») is a trampoline park in Lutsk, Ukraine, inside the Adrenalin City complex, with a large trampoline arena, foam pit, and hourly or unlimited tickets.
Gravitron
Gravitron (also Starship, Old Blue, Trip to Mars) is an enclosed spinning-cylinder amusement ride, descended from the Rotor, that pins standing riders to the wall by centrifugal force; Wisdom Industries builds the 24 RPM, 45-passenger version.
Grayson Highlands State Park
Grayson Highlands State Park, originally Mount Rogers State Park, is a 4,520-acre Virginia park established in 1965 near Mount Rogers, with wild ponies, grassy balds, Appalachian Trail access, and over 96 campsites.
Great Barn
Great Barn: name shared by several notable English historic barns, including Grade I listed examples at Avebury (late 17th century), Harmondsworth (1425-7, Winchester College), Gawthorpe Hall (1605), Headstone Manor, and Great Coxwell (13th century).
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin National Park, established in Nevada on October 27, 1986, protects Wheeler Peak (13,063 ft), Nevada's only glacier, ancient bristlecone pines, Lehman Caves, and International Dark Sky Park night skies.