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Herodeion
Herodeion, also known as Herodium, is a palace-fortress and monumental complex built by Herod the Great in the first century BCE on an artificial hill about 12 km south of Jerusalem.
Heroes' Acre (Zimbabwe)
Heroes' Acre is a 57-acre national memorial shrine on a ridge west of Harare, built from 1981 and designed with North Korean help, where Zimbabweans designated national heroes are buried.
Heroon of Eretria
Heroon of Eretria: Geometric-period burial and cult site (ca. 750-630 BC) at the West Gate of ancient Eretria, Euboea, with nineteen elite burials, bronze cauldron cremations, a stone triangle, and a bothros for sacrifices.
Herpes (site)
Herpes (site): Merovingian cemetery at Herpes, Courbillac, Charente, France, also called cimetière d'Herpes; 6th-century Frankish burial ground of about 1,600 tombs excavated by Philippe Delamain from 1886, finds mostly in the British Museum.
Hersheypark
Hersheypark (Hershey, Pennsylvania) is a 121-acre theme park opened in 1906 by Milton Hershey, owned by Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, with 15 coasters including Candymonium and Wildcat's Revenge, The Boardwalk water park, ZooAmerica, and about 3.32 million guests in 2023.
Hesselbach
Hesselbach, or Kastell Hesselbach, is a small Roman numerus fort on the older Odenwald Line of the Neckar-Odenwald Limes, the frontier of the Roman province of Upper Germany.
Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy, a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park on the Tuolumne River, dammed under the 1913 Raker Act to form the O'Shaughnessy Dam reservoir supplying 2.7 million Bay Area residents.
Heulg Folk Village
Heulg Folk Village (흙민속촌, Heulgminsokchon) is a small theme park and traditional restaurant in Sangbuk-myeon, Yangsan, South Gyeongsang, licensed in 2007, serving hanbang baeksuk; distinct from the Yongin Korean Folk Village.
Heumen-Heumensoord
Heumen-Heumensoord (Romeinse Wachtpost Heumensoord): late Roman watchtower site in the Heumensoord forest near Malden, Gelderland, on the Roman road between the castella of Nijmegen and Cuijk; excavated by Holwerda in 1931–32, rijksmonument 45554.
Heuneburg
Early Iron Age Celtic hillfort and proto-urban center on the upper Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; fortified around 620 BC with a unique Mediterranean-style mudbrick wall, up to 5,000 inhabitants, abandoned around 450 BC.
Hexamilion wall
The Hexamilion wall (Greek: Εξαμίλιον τείχος), a Roman barrier across the Isthmus of Corinth, was built under Theodosius II to shield the Peloponnese from invasion.
Hexapyla
Hexapyla ("six gates") were the gates in the northern wall of Epipolae at Syracuse, Sicily, through which Dion (357 BC) and Marcellus (213 BC) entered the city; Pleiades also records a sanctuary north of Syracuse.
Hexigten UNESCO Global Geopark
Hexigten UNESCO Global Geopark (克什克腾世界地质公园) is a geopark in Inner Mongolia, China, a GGN member since 2005 and UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, known for granite stone forests, mortars, and glacial vestiges.
Hi Umi Village
Hi Umi Village (嗨海莊園聚落) was a reservation-only seaside tent-picnic park in Mituo District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with seven wooden tents, moai decor, and sea views; it opened 15 August 2020 and closed in June 2021.
Hibiya Park
Hibiya Park (日比谷公園) is a 16-hectare metropolitan park in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened in 1903 as Japan's first Western-style modern park, built on the model of German parks.
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (長崎と天草地方の潜伏キリシタン関連遺産), UNESCO World Heritage serial site inscribed 2018 under criterion (iii): 12 components, ten villages, Hara Castle remains, Oura Cathedral, in Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures, Kyushu, Japan.
Hideglelőskereszt
Hideglelőskereszt (Hideglelős-kereszt), a cross above the Danube at Esztergom, Hungary, first raised in wood in 1784, and the surrounding archaeological site with a late Roman triangular fort, Iron Age settlement traces, and an Árpád-era castle.
Hiera Oikia at Eleusis
Hiera Oikia (Sacred House) at Eleusis: a Late Geometric, end-8th-century-BC cult building in the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, interpreted as a hero-ancestor shrine, later replaced by a square hall and a Peisistratean poros temple, distinct from the Dodona Hiera Oikia.
Hierapolis (Ἱεράπολις)
Hierapolis (Ἱεράπολις), the Holy City at Pamukkale, Turkey: a Hellenistic-Roman thermal spa founded by the Attalids in the late 2nd century BC, rebuilt after the 60 AD earthquake, an early Christian bishopric of St. Philip, abandoned by 1190.
Hierapolis-Pamukkale
Hierapolis-Pamukkale, Turkey: white travertine terraces of Pamukkale (cotton castle) below the Greco-Roman spa city of Hierapolis, founded by the Attalids, UNESCO-listed 1988, criteria iii, iv, vii.
Hieron (Byzantion)
Hieron of Zeus Ourios (Ἱερὸν τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Οὐρίου), ancient sanctuary of the fair-wind Zeus on the Asian Bithynian shore of the Bosporus at modern Anadolu Kavağı; starting point of Black Sea periploi, marked as Iouisvrius on the Tabula Peutingeriana.
Hietaniemi Cemetery
Hietaniemi Cemetery (Hietaniemen hautausmaa, Sandudds begravningsplats), Helsinki's main Lutheran cemetery, established 1829; five sectors, Finland's largest heroes' cemetery, Artists' Hill, graves of most Finnish presidents.
High Banks
High Banks names several places: a scheduled monument, possibly an Iron Age or Roman fort, at Ovington, Norfolk (NHLE 1004038); High Banks Farm's early Bronze Age cup-and-ring marked rocks in Kirkcudbright, Scotland (SM1028); and minor namesakes in Cumbria, Suffolk, and New York.
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (Höga kusten, Merenkurkun saaristo): transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden and Finland, inscribed 2000 and 2006 for the world's highest post-glacial land uplift and De Geer moraines.
High House
High House: name shared by many English listed buildings, chiefly the Grade I West Acre, Norfolk country house built 1756 for Edward Spelman, refaced c.1829 by architect W.J. Donthorn, owned by the Hamond and Birkbeck families and bought by Antony Gormley in 2010.
High Isolated Conical Shaped Mound
High Isolated Conical Shaped Mound, Sankara, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh: an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound (N-UP-A78, Agra Circle), recorded by Alexander Cunningham in 1874-75 as stupa-like, with temple ruins and a curved brick.
High Line
The High Line is a 2.3 km elevated public park in Manhattan, built on a 1934 freight railway abandoned in 1980, converted starting 2009 after a Friends of the High Line campaign.
High Square Shaped Mound
High Square Shaped Mound, Rudarpur, Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI Monument of National Importance, protected in 1920, distinct from Rudrapur city in Uttarakhand.
High1 Choochoopark
High1 Choochoopark (하이원추추파크) is South Korea's first railway theme park, opened October 24, 2014 in Dogye-eup, Samcheok on the disused Yeongdong Line switchback section, with a switchback train, rail bike, and villa lodging.
Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery (St James's Cemetery of Highgate), north London burial ground opened 1839 by the London Cemetery Company, third of the Magnificent Seven; West and East cemeteries, Karl Marx's grave, Grade I registered, over 170,000 buried.