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House of Slaves
House of Slaves (Maison des Esclaves), Gorée Island, Senegal: an 18th-century museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade, famous for its Door of No Return and its historically disputed role as a slave depot.
House of the Chaste Lovers
House of the Chaste Lovers (Casa dei Casti Amanti), Pompeii domus IX.12.6, Regio IX, named for a triclinium fresco of a kissing couple; wealthy baker's home with bakery, oven, millstones, stables, and equid skeletons, interrupted by the AD 79 eruption.
House of the Hotel
House of the Hotel (Casa dell'Albergo), largest Roman domus at Herculaneum, Insula III; Augustan period, only private bath suite in the city, peristyle pomarium garden; name from Bonucci's mistaken inn identification.
House of the Sea
Haus des Meeres (House of the Sea), Aqua Terra Zoo: Vienna public aquarium and zoo inside a WWII flak tower in Esterhazypark; opened 7 June 1958 as Austria's first saltwater aquarium, over 10,000 animals on 11 floors, owned by its nonprofit operator since 2015.
House of the Tiles
House of the Tiles (Oikia ton Keramon): Early Helladic II corridor house at Lerna, Argolid, Greece, c. 25x12 m, two-storey, fired clay and schist tile roof, 143 clay sealings in Room XI, destroyed by fire c. 2200 BCE, excavated by Caskey 1952-1957.
House where Maksim Tank Was Born
Birth house of Belarusian poet Maksim Tank (Yauhen Skurko, 1912-1995) in Pilkauščyna, Myadzyel District, Minsk Region; a moved log hut with old oaks, proposed in 2012 for state protection and memorial museum status but long lacking a plaque.
Housesteads Mithraeum
Housesteads Mithraeum: Roman temple of Mithras found in 1822 outside Housesteads fort on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Known for its unique relief of Mithras born from an egg, altars to Mithras Saecularis, and dedicator Litorius Pacatianus.
Hoxne Hoard
The Hoxne Hoard is a late Roman hoard of 14,780 gold and silver coins, jewelry, and silver tableware found at Hoxne, Suffolk, in 1992 and held by the British Museum.
Hoyo de la Campana
Hoyo de la Campana (Hoyo del Gigante) is a Roman hydraulic gold-mining hollow on Granada's Cerro del Sol, reexploited by Adolphe Goupil's French venture in the 1880s via the 16-km Canal de los Franceses.
Hradčany
Hradčany is the castle district of Prague, the quarter west of Prague Castle that became a town around 1320 and forms part of Prague's UNESCO World Heritage center.
Hsinchu Zoo
Hsinchu Zoo (新竹市立動物園) is a 2.7-hectare public zoo in Hsinchu Park, Taiwan, founded 1936 and the oldest zoo at its original site; rebuilt cage-free, reopened 2019.
Hua Guo Shan
Hua Guo Shan (花果山), Flower-Fruit Mountain, is the mythical birthplace of Sun Wukong in Journey to the West; the name is also used by a Henan forest park, a Monkey King temple in Kulai, Malaysia, and other sites.
Hua Hin Zoo
Hua Hin Zoo (สวนสัตว์หัวหิน) is a small private roadside zoo in Hin Lek Fai, Hua Hin, Thailand, with a white lion, deer, crocodiles, and birds; distinct from Hua Hin Safari & Adventure Park and the Huai Sai breeding centre, and rated 2.2/5 amid welfare complaints.
Huanggang Dabieshan UNESCO Global Geopark
Huanggang Dabieshan UNESCO Global Geopark (Hubei, China; designated 2018) protects 2,625.54 km² of the Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt, with Neoarchean rocks, world-significant ultrahigh-pressure eclogites, granite mountains, and Neolithic terraced farmland.
Huanglong Biosphere Reserve
Huanglong Biosphere Reserve (Huanglong, Sichuan) is a UNESCO MAB reserve in Songpan County, China, nominated in 2000 over 128,000 ha, overlapping the 1992 World Heritage travertine-terrace landscape with giant pandas and Xuebaoding Peak at 5,588 m.
Huapoca
Huapoca (Huápoca) is a cliff-dwelling archaeological zone of the Casas Grandes culture in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Madera municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico, occupied about 1000-1450 AD, with cave complexes Nido del Águila, Cueva de la Serpiente, Cueva del Mirador, and La Atalaya, built in molded earth with T-shaped doors.
Huascarán National Park
Huascarán National Park (Parque Nacional Huascarán), a 340,000-ha Peruvian park in the Cordillera Blanca, Áncash, created 1975; contains Peru's highest peak Nevado Huascarán (6,768 m), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1977) and World Heritage Site (1985).
Huatulco Biosphere Reserve
Huatulco Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Huatulco), Oaxaca, Mexico: UNESCO MAB site nominated 2006, 68,918 ha around Huatulco National Park (decreed 1998, 11,890.98 ha, five of nine bays), Ramsar site 1321, tropical dry forest and coral reefs.
Huayi Brothers Movie World
Huayi Brothers Movie World (华谊兄弟电影世界, HB World) is Huayi Brothers' first film-IP theme park in Suzhou's Yangcheng Lake Peninsula, opened July 23, 2018, with five themed areas, 34 attractions, and 11 shows; distinct from the Feng Xiaogang Movie Town in Haikou.
Hubei Shennongjia
Hubei Shennongjia (湖北神农架) is a natural World Heritage site in Hubei Province, China, inscribed 2016 under criteria (ix) and (x). It protects Central China's largest primary forests, 3,767 vascular plant species, and the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey.
Huchuy Qosqo
Huchuy Qosqo, Quechua for "Little Cusco," is an Inca archaeological site above Lamay in Peru's Sacred Valley, known as the royal estate of the Inca ruler Viracocha, established around 1420 CE.
Hueco Tanks
Hueco Tanks is a state park and historic site in far west Texas, 30 miles east of El Paso, known for thousands of prehistoric pictographs, especially Jornada Mogollon painted masks, and for bouldering.
Hueco Tanks masks
The Hueco Tanks masks are more than 200 painted face pictographs at Hueco Tanks State Park in El Paso County, Texas, the largest known mask grouping in North America.
Hueree Nature Experience Park
Hueree Nature Experience Park (휴애리자연생활공원, Hueree Natural Life Park) is a nature park in Namwon-eup, Seogwipo, Jeju, with year-round flower festivals, animal feeding, and October–January mandarin picking.
Huis ten Bosch
Huis ten Bosch is the residential palace of the Dutch king in the Haagse Bos, The Hague. Built from 1645 by Pieter Post for Frederik Hendrik and Amalia van Solms, its Oranjezaal honors the stadtholder; renovated 2016–2019.
Huis Ten Bosch (site)
Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス) is a Dutch-town-themed park and resort in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, opened March 25, 1992 on 152 hectares with a 220.4 billion yen investment, full-size Dutch building replicas, and 6 km of canals.
Huissen-Hazebergh
Huissen-Hazebergh (Huissen-Hazeberg, Huissen-Hazeheuvel) is a disputed possible Roman castellum near Huissen, Gelderland, on the Dutch Rhine limes; a 1951 excavation suggested a fort, but Willems (1986) argues the finds were moved from Loowaard or Arnhem-Meinerswijk.
Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites, UNESCO World Heritage site 1676, is a 2024 serial property of fourteen South African sites, including the Union Buildings, Sharpeville Sites, Liliesleaf and Constitution Hill, commemorating the anti-apartheid struggle.
Human Shadow Etched in Stone
Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi) is a granite step from Hiroshima's Sumitomo Bank, 260 m from the hypocenter, bearing a dark silhouette formed when a person shielded the stone from the 1945 atomic bomb's bleaching heat rays; now in the Peace Memorial Museum.
Humayma Roman Fort
Humayma Roman Fort (ancient Hauarra/Hawara): Trajanic auxiliary fort in southern Jordan, built after AD 106 annexation, about 500 troops, 24 towers, 204 x 147 m, abandoned early fifth century.