Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Ali Baba Theme Park

Ali Baba Theme Park (ملاهى على بابا) names several small amusement parks, chiefly one in Cairo Governorate, Egypt near Helwan, plus parks in Rangpur and Gaibandha, Bangladesh, and a former Karachi amusement area.

Alignements du Manio

Alignements du Manio: eastern group of the Kermario stone rows at Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany; 9 lines over 200 m by 45 m, with the 6.5 m Géant du Manio menhir, a quadrilateral enclosure, and five tumuli, classified 1900 and UNESCO-listed 2025.

Aliobrix

Aliobrix was a Roman fortification on the left bank of the Lower Danube at modern Orlivka, Ukraine, guarding a Danube crossing until its destruction in the mid-3rd century.

Alisca

Alisca was a Roman auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement on the Danube frontier in Pannonia Inferior, at Ócsény in present-day Hungary, used from about 50 to 435 AD.

All Hallows-by-the-Tower

All Hallows-by-the-Tower, also called All Hallows Barking, is a Grade I listed Anglican church on Byward Street, City of London, founded in AD 675 by Barking Abbey; it claims to be the City's oldest church, with a Saxon arch, Roman pavement, and Pepys and Penn connections.

All Saints, Margaret Street

All Saints, Margaret Street, Fitzrovia, London: Grade I listed Anglo-Catholic parish church (1849–59) by William Butterfield, Ecclesiological Society model church, polychrome brick Backsteingotik, 220 ft spire, consecrated May 1859.

Allahabad Pillar

Allahabad Pillar (Prayagraj Prashasti pillar): sandstone column in Allahabad Fort bearing Ashoka's edicts, Samudragupta's Sanskrit praśasti by Harishena, and Jahangir's Persian inscription.

Allas-les-Mines

Allas-les-Mines, Dordogne commune on the Dordogne's left bank; site of a Gallo-Roman villa and wine-producing establishment (1949-1957 excavations) and the Château de Ferrières medieval logis.

Allegheny National Forest

Allegheny National Forest, northwestern Pennsylvania's only national forest: 513,325 acres established 1923 under the Weeks Act, with hardwood forest, extensive trails, and a privately owned split-estate mineral rights pattern.

Allen University

Allen University is a private historically Black university in Columbia, South Carolina, founded in 1870 and named for Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the AME Church.

Allerton Park

Allerton Park names two historic landscapes: a 205-ha grade II registered park around Allerton Castle near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, and Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Robert Allerton's 1,500-acre Illinois estate given to the University of Illinois in 1946.

Allianoi

Allianoi (Paşa Ilıcası): ancient Graeco-Roman spa town about 20 km northeast of Pergamon, western Turkey, with hundreds of Roman surgical instruments; possibly an early group medical practice, submerged by the Yortanlı Dam in 2010.

Almaty Biosphere Reserve

Almaty Biosphere Reserve (Kazakhstan), designated by UNESCO MAB on 28 October 2020; a 176,960 ha reserve on the Zailiysky Alatau ridge of the Northern Tien Shan, centered on Almaty State Nature Reserve and its wild apple forests.

Almus

Almus: Roman castellum and road station on the lower Danubian limes at modern Lom, Bulgaria, in Moesia; Tiberian camp, Hadrianic vicus, 4.1-ha Late Roman fortress, destroyed c. 400 AD. Not the Turkish Tokat district of the same name.

Almyras

Almyras (Agia Varvara-Almyras) is an Iron Age copper mining and smelting site in Nicosia District, Cyprus, 20 km south of Nicosia. Discovered by Walter Fasnacht in 1982, excavated 1988-1999; the only complete ancient copper production chain excavated on Cyprus.

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

A Song dynasty handscroll attributed to Zhang Zeduan that depicts everyday life in the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng; the original is held by the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Aloppkölen-Köpmankölen

Aloppkölen-Köpmankölen, Ramsar site no. 1113, is a 20,079-hectare wetland mire complex in Jämtland, Sweden, designated 19 November 2001, with string fens, bogs, wet forests, threatened waders, and Sami reindeer husbandry.

Alpaca (site)

Alpaca Farm (alpaca.co.il) is an Israeli visitor farm keeping alpacas and llamas, with guided tours, hand-feeding, and a wool factory visit; adult admission 50 shekels, open Thursday to Sunday.

Alpine Flower Garden

Alpine flower garden, or alpine botanical garden, a high-elevation garden cultivating alpine plants; examples include Schynige Platte (1927, ~800 Swiss alpine species at 1,967 m), Juliana (1926), Schachen, Kitzbüheler Horn, and Betty Ford.

Alpine National Park

Alpine National Park: national park in eastern Victoria, Australia, managed by Parks Victoria, stretching from Gippsland to the NSW border adjoining Kosciuszko. Contains Mt Bogong, Victoria's highest peak; part of the 2008 Australian Alps National Heritage listing.

Alpingarten Hirzer - Giardino alpino Punta Cervina

Alpingarten Hirzer (Giardino alpino Punta Cervina) is a free alpine garden opened June 2017 at the Klammeben mountain station (2,000 m) of the Hirzer cable car in Schenna, South Tyrol, near the 2,781 m Hirzer summit.

Alsafa

Al Safa (الصفا) is a Dubai residential district around Safa Park, the city's first central public park (1975), between Al Wasl Road and Sheikh Zayed Road; distinct from same-named areas in Jeddah, Riyadh, and Najran.

Alta Ripa (Hungary)

Alta Ripa (Altaripa) was a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube at Tolna, Hungary, part of the Ripa Pannonica river frontier; garrisoned by the ala Siliana and ala I Brittonum, its exact site is eroded and uncertain.

Altaisky Biosphere Reserve

Altaisky Biosphere Reserve (Алтайский заповедник), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in the Altai Mountains, Russia; zapovednik founded 1932, biosphere designation 2009; 3,532,234 ha with Lake Teletskoye, snow leopards, and 326 bird species.

Altar of Hieron II

Altar of Hieron II (Ara di Ierone II): monumental altar at Syracuse, Sicily, built by Hieron II (275–215 BCE), probably for Zeus Eleutherios; about 198 m long, the largest ancient Greek altar, with 450 oxen sacrificed per Diodorus; demolished by the Spaniards in the 16th century.