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Highway 10 (Saudi Arabia)
Highway 10 (Saudi Arabia) runs from Ad Darb to the UAE border at al-Batha and holds the Guinness record for the longest straight road: a 240 km desert stretch built originally for King Fahd.
Hiiumaa Islets and Käina Bay
Hiiumaa Islets and Käina Bay (Hiiumaa laiud ja Käina laht), Estonian Ramsar site 908 designated 1997: 17,700 ha of shallow sea, islets, and a 0.5-m-deep bird-rich lagoon on Hiiumaa's southeast coast.
Hill figure
Hill figures are large geoglyphs cut into chalk hillsides, mainly in England, including the Uffington White Horse, the Cerne Abbas Giant, and the Long Man of Wilmington, dated by OSL.
Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Hill Forts of Rajasthan, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, a serial property of six Rajput hill forts (Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambore, Gagron, Amber, Jaisalmer) built 8th-18th centuries, walls up to 20 km, criteria (ii) and (iii).
Hill of Tara
The Hill of Tara (Teamhair) is a hill in County Meath, Ireland, the traditional seat of the High Kings and a ceremonial site used from Neolithic times.
Hill of Youth
Hill of Youth (青春の丘, Seishun no Oka) is a Ghibli Park area in Aichi, Japan, recreating Whisper of the Heart's World Emporium and Rotary, The Cat Returns' Cat Bureau, and the Elevator Tower; opened November 2022.
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles at 6001 W. Centinela Ave., established 1941, owned by Temple Israel of Hollywood, with burials including Al Jolson and Leonard Nimoy.
Hilton Hawaiian Village
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, at 2005 Kalia Road in Waikiki, Honolulu, is Hawaii's largest resort: five towers on 22 beachfront acres, 18 restaurants, five pools, Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon, roots in the 1928 Niumalu Hotel and 1955 Kaiser development.
Ḥimā Cultural Area
Ḥimā Cultural Area (منطقة حمى الثقافية), also called Bir Hima or Hima Najran, is a UNESCO World Heritage rock art site in Najran Province, southwest Saudi Arabia, inscribed in 2021 under criterion (iii), with 7,000 years of petroglyphs, multi-script inscriptions, and 3,000-year-old wells on an ancient caravan route.
Himalayan Department
Himalayan Department (ჰიმალაის განყოფილება) is the Himalayan Phytogeographic department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 1.8 ha of Himalayan conifers, magnolias, and palms introduced from Darjeeling, not a government department.
Himeji Central Park
Himeji Central Park (姫路セントラルパーク, "Hime-sen") is a safari park and amusement park in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, with about 1,000 animals of 150 species, drive-through and walking safaris, white lions and tigers, roughly 35 rides, a summer pool, and a winter ice rink.
Himlingøje
Himlingøje (Himlinghøje) is a rich 2nd-3rd century AD Iron Age barrow cemetery on Stevns, Zealand, Denmark, burial ground of a princely dynasty that controlled Roman imports to Scandinavia, with gold snake-head rings, Roman glass, and silver cups.
Himvalley Theme Park
Himvalley Manali Amusement & Culture Park, also called Him Valley Amusement & Cultural Park, is a small amusement and cultural theme park at Bahang on the Manali–Leh highway in Himachal Pradesh, India, offering rides, boating, yak rides, folk performances, and a food court.
Hindwell Farm
Hindwell Farm (Walton Roman Fort, NPRN 300470, scheduled RD136) is a Neronian-period Roman auxiliary fort, AD 55-65, in the Walton Basin, Powys, Wales, with a vicus east of its gate, two occupation phases, and an overlying Neolithic palisaded enclosure.
Hinova
Hinova (Castrul roman de la Hinova) is a late Roman quadriburgium fort on the left bank of the Lower Danube, Mehedinți County, Romania, built late 3rd–early 4th century CE, garrisoned by legio V Macedonica, destroyed by Goths in 378–379 and by Huns in the 5th century, site of a 9,639-piece gold treasure.
Hinton St. Mary
Hinton St. Mary, Dorset: Roman site discovered in 1963, famous for a 4th-century chi-rho mosaic bust, possibly Christ or Constantine, now in the British Museum; new fieldwork questions the villa interpretation.
Hippodrome at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen
Hippodrome at Ptolemais/Barkes Limen: ancient horse-racetrack at Ptolemais (Greek Πτολεμαὶς), Cyrenaica, Libya, near Tolmeita; one of the city's spectacle venues with an amphitheater and three theaters, at the base of the acropolis.
Hippodrome of Olympia
The Hippodrome of Olympia was the equestrian racecourse of the ancient Olympic Games in Elis, Greece, and is the only major Olympic venue never excavated, buried by flooding of the Alpheios river.
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
Hiraizumi (平泉) is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iwate, Japan, inscribed 2011 under criteria (ii) and (vi): five sites including Chūson-ji, Mōtsū-ji, and Mount Kinkeisan representing the Buddhist Pure Land.
Hirakata Park
Hirakata Park (ひらかたパーク, Hirapā) is Japan's oldest continuously operating amusement park, in Hirakata, Osaka, tracing to a 1912 chrysanthemum-doll exhibition and 1910 Kori Amusement Park predecessor, with about 40 rides including the 80-meter Sky Walker Ferris wheel.
Hirosaki Castle Botanical Garden
Hirosaki Castle Botanical Garden (弘前城植物園), in the Sannomaru of Hirosaki Park, Aomori, Japan. Opened 1988; 76,500 m², 23 zones, 1,500 species, 124,000 plants; open April to November; main venue of the Chrysanthemum and Autumn Foliage Festival. Distinct from the separate Hirosaki Botanical Gardens on the city outskirts.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Genbaku Dome, is the preserved ruin of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall left standing after the 1945 atomic bombing.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園)
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園) is a Hiroshima park near the 1945 atomic bombing hypocenter, designed by Kenzo Tange after his 1949 competition win, hosting the annual August 6 Peace Memorial Ceremony, the Cenotaph, and the Peace Memorial Museum within the Genbaku Dome's UNESCO buffer zone.
Hirschlanden
Hirschlanden, an early Iron Age burial site near Ditzingen, Baden-Württemberg, home of the Warrior of Hirschlanden (Krieger von Hirschlanden), the oldest life-size human sculpture in Central Europe, a late Hallstatt sandstone stele of about 500 BCE.
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is a United States federal program, begun in December 1933, that records historic buildings through measured drawings, photographs, and written histories.
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin (Историко-архитектурный комплекс Казанского Кремля), a UNESCO World Heritage fortress in Kazan, Tatarstan, inscribed 2000 under criteria ii, iii, iv; the only surviving Tatar fortress in Russia, conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, with the Kul-Sharif Mosque and Annunciation Cathedral.
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao: UNESCO World Heritage site (no. 819, inscribed 1997, criteria ii/iv/v), a Dutch colonial trading settlement founded in 1634 around Sint Anna Bay, with districts Punda, Otrobanda, Pietermaai, and Scharloo.
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Historic Areas of Istanbul: UNESCO World Heritage site (1985, no. 356) grouping four zones, Sultanahmet Archaeological Park, Süleymaniye, Zeyrek, and the Theodosian Land Walls, with Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace, and Sinan's Süleymaniye Mosque.
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, Barbados' first UNESCO World Heritage site (2011, criteria ii, iii, iv), a 187 ha serpentine-plan colonial port town and 18th-19th century British garrison on Carlisle Bay, an entrepôt for sugar and enslaved people.
Historic Cairo
Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية), also called Islamic Cairo, is the medieval core of Egypt's capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Founded by the Fatimids in 969 AD, it preserves half the world's surviving medieval Islamic monuments amid modern Cairo.