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Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park
Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie, a 224.7 km² Quebec national park in Charlevoix created in 2000, protecting deep valleys of the Malbaie River with the 800 m Acropole des Draveurs rock face.
Havasu Creek
Havasu Creek is a spring-fed tributary of the Colorado River in Havasu Canyon, Arizona, home of the Havasupai Tribe and Supai Village, known for blue-green water, travertine waterfalls, stable base flow near 64 cfs, and recurring flash floods.
Havor
Havor, Hablingbo parish, Gotland: Iron Age cemetery of nearly 400 graves and a ringfort, abandoned in the 7th century and reused for secondary burials in the late Viking Age; site of the 1961 Havor hoard and stolen Havor ring.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii National Park, established 1916 on Hawaiʻi island, protects Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, two of the world's most active volcanoes; UNESCO World Heritage Site 1987, Biosphere Reserve 1980, 354,461 acres.
Hawaiian wahi pana tradition
Wahi pana (Hawaiian for "storied places") is the Native Hawaiian tradition of celebrated legendary sites, from temples to sacred stones, that carry history, spirituality, and identity through oral histories.
Hawally Park
Hawally Park is a family amusement park on Tunisia Street in Hawally, Kuwait City, opened in 2004. Free entry, pay-per-ride from 750 fils, Monday 50% discounts, indoor Fun Palace, Jarir Bookstore, and Italian-built rides.
Hayling Island Iron-Age/Roman Sanctuary
Hayling Island Iron-Age/Roman Sanctuary, Northney Farm temple, Hampshire: two late Iron Age timber shrines (early/mid 1st century BC) succeeded by a circular Romano-Celtic stone temple c. 55-70 AD, excavated 1976-1982 by Downey, King, and Soffe.
Hayvonot bog'i
Hayvonot bog'i, Uzbek for zoo, is an institution keeping and breeding wild animals for conservation, education, and research; the Tashkent Zoo, founded 1924, is Uzbekistan's largest with 373 species on 21.5 hectares.
HBtown Changsha
HBtown Changsha, formally Huayi Brothers (Changsha) Movie Town (华谊兄弟（长沙）电影小镇), is a film-themed resort in Changsha, Hunan, China, opened in 2018, combining recreated Italian architecture with film scenes, performances, and dining.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (estipah-skikikini-kots) is a UNESCO World Heritage bison jump in the Porcupine Hills of southwestern Alberta, used by Blackfoot hunters for nearly 6,000 years, with 11-metre-deep bone beds and a 1987 interpretive centre.
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Heart of Neolithic Orkney: UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1999, criteria i-iv) on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, comprising Maeshowe, Stones of Stenness, Ring of Brodgar, and Skara Brae, Neolithic monuments of about 3000-2000 BC; 15 ha property, 6,258 ha buffer zone.
Heartful Land
Heartful Land (ハートフルランド) is the family-themed farm-town zone of Tobu Zoo Park's amusement area in Miyashiro, Saitama, Japan, built in stages from 2012 with children's rides; also the name of a Tokyo/Ibaraki real estate firm and a Miyagi Jersey dairy farm.
Heddesdorf
Heddesdorf is a Roman cohort fort in Germany, built at the end of the first century on the Upper German-Raetian Limes for the Cohors II Hispanorum.
Hedeby
Hedeby (Haithabu, Old Norse Heiðabýr) was a Viking Age Danish trading emporium on the Schleswig Isthmus, Germany, a North Sea-Baltic trade hub with the Danevirke; UNESCO World Heritage since 2018, abandoned around 1066 after 300 years.
Hedegård
Hedegård is an Early Iron Age archaeological complex in Mid-Jutland, Denmark, comprising one of Scandinavia's richest burial grounds and a large fortified settlement near the Skjern river.
Hedemünden (Germany)
Römerlager Hedemünden, Roman camp at Hann. Münden, Lower Saxony, Germany: Augustan-era multipartite military base on the Burgberg above the Werra, first Roman camp found in Lower Saxony, linked to Drusus's campaigns of 11–9 BC.
Heden
Heden is a Ramsar wetland site (no. 389) on Jameson Land, East Greenland, covering 252,390 hectares of tundra, designated for internationally important moulting Pink-footed and Barnacle geese and affected by a mining project of declared urgent national interest.
Heide Park
Heide Park Resort, Soltau, Lower Saxony: amusement park opened 19 August 1978 by Hans-Jürgen Tiemann, now Merlin Entertainments-owned, 850,000 m², home of the wooden coaster Colossos.
Heidekringen
Heidekringen (Kleinkastell Heidekringen) is a small Roman fort site near Taunusstein, Hesse, Germany, on the Wiesbaden-Zugmantel road 5 km south of the Upper Germanic Limes; a 72 x 65 m earth-and-timber camp with uniformly Hadrianic finds.
Heiliger Sand, Worms
The Heiliger Sand, or Holy Sand, is a Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, the oldest preserved in-situ Jewish cemetery in Europe, part of the ShUM Sites UNESCO World Heritage listing since 2021.
Heilongjiang Nanweng River National Nature Reserve
Heilongjiang Nanweng River National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in Heilongjiang, China, designated 1 September 2011, covering 229,523 hectares at 51°19'N 125°22'E.
Heimstetten
Heimstetten, a district of Kirchheim bei München east of Munich, incorporated 1978; type site of the early Roman Imperial Heimstetten Group inhumation graves published by Erwin Keller in 1984.
Heldua
Heldua (Hildua, Hedua; Akkadian Ḫildua) was an ancient settlement near Sidon, Lebanon, identified with Khalde; captured by Esarhaddon in 677 BCE and listed in his annals.
Heliaramia
Heliaramia was a Roman military outpost in the Syrian Desert on the Tabula Peutingeriana road map, identified with Qasr el-Heir al-Gharbi, southwest of Palmyra in modern Syria.
Helice
Helice (Ἑλίκη, Helike) was an ancient Achaian polis on the Gulf of Corinth, refuge of the Ionians per Herodotus, submerged by an earthquake in 373 BCE and buried under river alluvium; not the Thracian road station Helice nor the constellation name.
Hell's Gate National Park
Hell's Gate National Park: Kenyan Rift Valley park near Lake Naivasha, gazetted 1984, 68.25 sq km, KWS-managed; walkable and cyclable, hosts Olkaria geothermal plants and Kenya's only protected Rüppell's vulture colonies.
Hellana
Hellana, also Eleana, was a Roman road station in Etruria on the Florence-Pistoia road, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with modern Agliana, Tuscany, attested as Alina in 848 AD.
Hellenistic Arsenal
The Hellenistic Arsenal is a large rectangular building on the Kolonos Agoraios hill in Athens, built in the 270s or 260s BC and probably used for storing weapons.
Hellenistic Baths (Syracuse)
Hellenistic Baths (Syracuse), or Terme ellenistiche at Contrada Zappalà: a 3rd-century BC public bath complex near the Greek Theatre, with two circular tholos rooms, a central furnace, and the earliest recorded domed and vaulted bath structures.
Helorine Hodos
Helorine Hodos (Helorine Road): ancient road linking Syracuse with its first subcolony Heloros (Eloro) in southeastern Sicily, mentioned by Thucydides, in use from Archaic Greek times through late Antiquity.