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Hongshancun Scenic Spot
Hongshancun (红杉邨旅游景区), a national AAA rural tourism and farm-stay scenic spot in Yangyuan Village, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, about 500 mu, founded 2007 as Bunong Manor and named for Yangyuan's 1658 treatise Bunong Shu.
Honos et Virtus, Aedes
Honos et Virtus, Aedes: Roman double temple outside porta Capena for Honos and Virtus, vowed by Marcellus, dedicated 205 BC by his son; also Marius' 101 BC temple.
Hopen
Hopen, Ramsar Site no. 1957, is a 318,567 ha marine and coastal wetland around Hopen island in Svalbard, Norway, designated 12 November 2010; a nature reserve important for seabirds and polar bears.
Hopewell Rocks
Hopewell Rocks (flowerpot rocks) are over twenty sea stacks at Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, carved by Bay of Fundy tides; walkable ocean floor at low tide, kayaking at high tide, in a provincial park.
Horace M. Albright
Horace Marden Albright (1890–1987), American conservation administrator, co-created the National Park Service, acted as its director 1917–1919, superintended Yellowstone 1919–1929, and as second NPS director (1929–1933) added 57 historic units in the 1933 reorganization.
Horath
Horath, village in the Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Bernkastel-Wittlich), with Iron Age barrow cemeteries, the Kaisergarten La Tène cemetery, and Roman tumuli; also a townland in County Meath, Ireland.
Hordiivka necropolis
Hordiivka necropolis (Гордіївський могильник, Hordeevka): Late Bronze Age kurgan cemetery near Hordiivka, Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine, excavated 1986–1988; 40 tumuli, four phases ca. 1500–1000 BC, elite burials with amber, gold, and Transylvanian metal.
Horkaha Park
Horkaha Park (Maksim Gorky Central Children's Park, Парк Горкага) is Minsk's oldest park, founded 1805 as the Governor's Garden, 28 ha on the Svislach River, with a 54 m Ferris wheel and planetarium.
Horologium Augusti
Horologium Augusti (Solarium Augusti), Augustus' monumental solar instrument in Rome's Campus Martius, gnomoned by the Montecitorio obelisk from Heliopolis; described by Pliny, partially excavated by Buchner, and debated as sundial versus meridian line.
Horrea Galbana
The Horrea Galbana, originally the horrea Sulpicia, were among ancient Rome's largest warehouses in the Emporium district, the central depot for the public grain supply from the late Republic onward.
Horrea Piperataria
The Horrea Piperataria was a Roman storehouse and bazaar for pepper and spices from Egypt and Arabia, built by Emperor Domitian near the Roman Forum.
Horsens Fjord and Endelave
Horsens Fjord and Endelave (Horsens Fjord, havet øst for og Endelave) is a shallow East Jutland fjord, adjacent Kattegat sea and island in Denmark, protected as Ramsar site 152 (1977) and Natura 2000 site 56 (DK00DY156), 46,154 ha, threatened by nutrient enrichment and fish farms.
Horsvaer
Horsvaer (Horsvær) is a Ramsar Site (no. 2157, designated 2013) and nature reserve of 17,036 ha in Nordland, Norway: 360 islands and islets in Brønnøy, Sømna and Bindal, a major seabird breeding, moulting and wintering area monitored under SEAPOP.
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta (Hortobágyi Nemzeti Park) is a World Heritage cultural landscape of plains and wetlands on the Great Hungarian Plain in eastern Hungary, inscribed by UNESCO in 1999.
Hörtsänä Arboretum
Hörtsänä Arboretum, originally Hörtsänä Flower Park, is a private arboretum in Orivesi, Finland, founded in 1909 by Hugo Hörtsänä, who planted about 500 tree and shrub species.
Hortus Botanicus (The Netherlands)
Hortus Botanicus is the shared Latin name of the Netherlands' oldest botanical gardens: Leiden (1590), Amsterdam (1638), Utrecht (1639), Haren (1642), and Delft, now coordinated through the National Plant Collection as biodiversity guardians.
Hosnie's Spring
Hosnie's Spring (Hosnies Spring), Ramsar site 512 on Christmas Island, Australia: a permanent freshwater spring wetland with a relict Bruguiera mangrove stand 37 m above sea level, listed 1990, expanded to 202 ha in 2010.
Hospital of St John
Hospital of St John is the name shared by several English hospitals, mostly medieval charitable institutions, the best preserved being a Grade I listed foundation in Cirencester, founded in 1133.
Hostilia
Hostilia, ancient Roman vicus and Po river port at modern Ostiglia, Mantua, Italy; on the Via Claudia Augusta crossing and the Tabula Peutingeriana route Ravenna ab Hostilia per Padum; named in Pliny and Tacitus.
Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs National Park, created as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832, is a National Park Service unit in Hot Springs, Arkansas, protecting 47 natural hot springs.
Hôtel du Cap
Hôtel du Cap, now Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, is a Palace-distinction resort on the Cap d'Antibes, opened 1870 as Grand Hôtel du Cap, Oetker Collection flagship since 1969; distinct from a small Cap-Ferret hotel of the same name.
Hotel New Otani Tokyo (ホテルニューオータニ東京)
Hotel New Otani Tokyo (ホテルニューオータニ東京) is a 1,389-room luxury hotel complex in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened September 1, 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics, with a 400-year-old Japanese garden, Forbes five-star Executive House Zen, and carbon-neutral city gas.
Hotel Ramada Plaza
Hotel Ramada Plaza: full-service hotels under the Ramada Plaza flag of Ramada by Wyndham, including casino resorts in Gevgelija (2010) and Batumi, plus Panama City, Craiova, Waikiki, Orlando, and Gatineau properties.
Hotel Termas el Sosneado
Hotel Termas el Sosneado: luxury Andean thermal hotel in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, designed by Lyman O. Dudley, inaugurated December 1938, closed around 1953; stone ruins and 31 °C sulfurous pools remain on route 220.
Hotel Zone (Cancún)
Hotel Zone (Zona Hotelera), Cancún: planned resort strip on 7-shaped Isla Cancún between the Caribbean and Nichupté Lagoon, created under the 1970 FONATUR master plan; 35,664 rooms, El Rey ruins, mangrove loss and sargassum management.
Hottomont tumulus
Hottomont tumulus (Tombe d'Hottomont), a Gallo-Roman burial mound at Grand-Rosière-Hottomont, Ramillies, Belgium; about 11.5 m high and 50 m wide on the Bavay-Cologne Roman road; excavated 1932; legend of General Otto unproven; protected since 1971.
Hougoumont
Hougoumont (Château Goumont), a walled farm at Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, anchored Wellington's right flank at Waterloo on 18 June 1815; French attacks under Jérôme Bonaparte failed, the north gate was famously closed, and the restored site opened in 2015.
House of Caecilius Jucundus
House of Caecilius Jucundus (Casa di Caecilius Iucundus, V.1.26), Pompeian house of the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, known for its archive of about 153–154 wax tablets (AD 53–62) and earthquake reliefs.
House of Julia Felix
The House of Julia Felix, or Praedia of Julia Felix, is a large Roman estate in Pompeii owned by Julia Felix and known for its painted rental notice.
House of Many Colors
The House of Many Colors (Olynthus house F–ii 9) is a large, richly painted Greek house of the fourth century BC in the Villa Section of ancient Olynthus.