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Incidents at European amusement parks
Incidents at European amusement parks are accidents and safety failures on rides at parks across Europe, ranging from minor injuries to the fatal 2023 Gröna Lund Jetline derailment.
Indawgyi Biosphere Reserve
Indawgyi Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in Kachin State, Myanmar, designated 2017 around Indawgyi Lake (12,000 ha), covering 133,715 ha with 50,375 residents; also a Ramsar site and wildlife sanctuary.
India Gate
India Gate (All India War Memorial) is a 42 m triumphal arch in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens, dedicated 1931, bearing 13,516 names of WWI and Third Anglo-Afghan War dead; site of Amar Jawan Jyoti until 2022.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Indiana Dunes National Park, formerly Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, is a 16,000-acre U.S. national park on 15 miles of southern Lake Michigan shore in Indiana, the 61st national park (2019), noted for dune plant succession and fourth-ranked biodiversity.
Indiana Dunes State Park
Indiana Dunes State Park is a 2,182-acre Indiana state park in Porter County on Lake Michigan, established 1925 and opened 1926, with three miles of beach, nearly 200-foot dunes, the 3 Dune Challenge, and separate fees from Indiana Dunes National Park.
Indiana Jones Adventure
Indiana Jones Adventure is a 1995 EMV dark ride at Disneyland (Temple of the Forbidden Eye), with a Tokyo DisneySea counterpart, Temple of the Crystal Skull, in Lost River Delta; both use motion-simulator vehicles on a track.
Indus Dolphin Reserve
Indus Dolphin Reserve, a 1974 game reserve in Sindh, Pakistan, protecting a 190 km Indus River stretch between Guddu and Sukkur barrages for the endangered bhulan (Indus River dolphin); Ramsar Site 1065, 44,200 ha.
Infant Jesus of Prague
The Infant Jesus of Prague (Pražské Jezulátko) is a 47 cm wax statue of the Christ Child in Prague's Church of Our Lady Victorious, donated by Polyxena of Lobkowicz in 1628 and cared for by Discalced Carmelites.
Inheiden
Inheiden (Kastell Inheiden) is a Roman auxiliary fort site at Hungen, Landkreis Gießen, Hesse, on the Wetterau Upper German Limes between Arnsburg and Echzell: a 1.2 ha stone fort with an unknown garrison unit, timber predecessors, a vicus, and UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Inlăceni
Inlăceni (Énlaka), Harghita County, Romania: Roman auxiliary fort, vicus, and military baths on the eastern limes of Dacia. Earth-and-timber fort of 140 × 142 m under Trajan; stone fort built AD 149 by cohors VIII Raetorum; towers added under Caracalla; UNESCO Dacian Limes component.
Inlay Lake Biosphere Reserve
Inlay Lake (Inle Lake) Biosphere Reserve, Myanmar's first UNESCO MAB reserve (2015), in Southern Shan State; 489,721 ha, shallow 884 m lake, endemic Inlay carp and sarus crane, also Ramsar Site 2356 (2018).
Inner Harbor
Baltimore Inner Harbor, the innermost Patapsco River harbor in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, redeveloped from the 1960s into the city's tourism centerpiece with the National Aquarium, Harborplace, and a 7-mile waterfront promenade.
Inner Mongolia Grand Khingan Hanma Wetlands
Inner Mongolia Grand Khingan Hanma Wetlands (内蒙古大兴安岭汗马国际重要湿地), Ramsar Site no. 2351, a 107,348-ha marsh, river, and lake wetland in the Greater Khingan Mountains, Genhe, Inner Mongolia; designated 2018, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 2015.
INSPIRE Casino
INSPIRE Casino is the foreigners-only casino at the US$1.6 billion Inspire Entertainment Resort on Yeongjong Island, Incheon, South Korea. Licensed January 2024, opened February 2024, developed by Mohegan, controlled by Bain Capital since February 2025.
Institute for Nature Study
Institute for Nature Study (附属自然教育園), a 20-hectare protected woodland reserve in Shirokanedai, Minato, Tokyo, run by the National Museum of Nature and Science; a national Natural Monument and Historic Site since 1949, museum branch since 1962.
Institute of Directors
Institute of Directors (IoD), UK professional body for company directors, founded 1903, Royal Charter 1906, first president Lord Avebury; headquartered since 1978 at 116 Pall Mall, a Grade I listed John Nash building.
Insula Banului
Insula Banului (Ostrovul Banului, Ostrovu Golu), a Danube island near Gura Văii, Romania, holds a late Roman fort identified with Transdiana, a Romano-Byzantine fortification, a 14th-century medieval fort, and the type site of the Early Iron Age Insula Banului pottery group.
Insula Volusiana
Insula Volusiana: Roman insula remains on the northern edge of Rome's Forum Boarium, named from an inscription of the censors Claudius and Vitellius; four phases, Hadrianic to fifth century AD, with late-antique metalworking.
Intaranum
Intaranum, ancient name of Entrains-sur-Nohain (Nièvre, France), a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Aedui, 1st-4th centuries AD, road crossroads, ironworking center, 80-120 ha, with a 115 m theater and Apollon Grinovantis sanctuary.
Integral natural reserve
Integral natural reserve (réserve intégrale, reserva integral): a strictly protected conservation area or zone where extractive use and habitat modification are banned, matching IUCN category Ia; used in Mozambique, Spain, France, and Pacific WDPA records.
Interamnium
Interamnium (Nteramnio on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman road station on the Via Popilia in the Sybaris valley, Calabria, near modern San Lorenzo del Vallo; located near the Esaro-Coscile confluence, attested only by the Geographer of Ravenna.
Intercisa
Intercisa (Dunaújváros, Hungary): Roman auxiliary fort and vicus on the Pannonian limes, Danube left bank. Earth-and-timber fort late 1st century AD, stone fort 178-182, Syrian cohors I milliaria Hemesenorum from c. 180, occupied until the Hunnic cession of 433-434.
Intercisa/Petra Pertusa
Intercisa/Petra Pertusa, also called Saxa Intercisa, is a Roman mutatio in the Furlo Gorge on the Via Flaminia in Marche, Italy, where Emperor Vespasian cut a rock tunnel around 76 AD.
Intercontinental BR of the Mediterranean Biosphere Reserve (Spain)
Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (RBIM), Reserva de la Biosfera Intercontinental del Mediterráneo: UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 27 October 2006, the first intercontinental one, spanning Andalusia (Spain) and northern Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, with 413,201.72 ha land, 17,976.82 ha marine, and 529,086 inhabitants.
Interlaken Lakeside Reserve
Interlaken Lakeside Reserve is a 517-hectare Ramsar wetland in Tasmania's Central Highlands, listed 16 November 1982 (site 259), protecting Lake Crescent's north-west corner and marshes, habitat of the endangered golden galaxias.
Interlaken Town
Interlaken Town (茵特拉根小镇) is a Swiss-themed resort district in the Tea Stream Valley of OCT East, Dameisha, Yantian District, Shenzhen, named after Interlaken, Switzerland; about 110,000 m², free with a Tea Valley ticket, currently listed temporarily closed.
International Amphitheatre
International Amphitheatre: Chicago indoor arena at 42nd and Halsted beside the Union Stock Yards, built 1934 for $1.5 million for the International Live Stock Exposition; hosted six national political conventions and was demolished in 1999.
Intramuros
Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila, is the historic Spanish colonial core of the Philippines' capital, seat of the Galleon trade, now a heritage district managed by the Intramuros Administration.
Inveravon
Inveravon is a small Roman fort on the Antonine Wall near Bo'ness, Scotland, on the east bank of the River Avon. Excavated in 1914, 1967, and 1991, it was a late addition guarding the river crossing, with Mesolithic shell middens nearby.
Inveresk
Inveresk Roman fort and vicus, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland: Antonine-period fort (480 by 615-595 ft) with the largest known Roman civil settlement in Scotland, excavated from 1946-7 by Ian Richmond onward.