Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Inverewe Garden

Inverewe Garden, a 21-hectare historic botanical garden at Poolewe, Wester Ross, Scotland, created from 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie; Gulf Stream microclimate, rhododendrons, Wollemi pines, National Trust for Scotland since 1952.

Inverquharity

Inverquharity: Roman fortlet, temporary camp, and Iron Age settlement with souterrain in Angus, Scotland, near Kirriemuir. Discovered from the air in 1983; c. 0.52 ha double-ditched fortlet, probably Flavian, scheduled monument SM6452.

Inverted roller coaster

Inverted roller coaster: a steel coaster whose train hangs rigidly beneath the track with dangling legs, pioneered by B&M's Batman: The Ride in 1992; distinct from swinging suspended coasters; examples include Nemesis, Alpengeist, and Banshee.

inverter shop

inverter shop: a place in Balapur, Ranga Reddy, Telangana, India, mapped in OpenStreetMap (node 4405187989) as a casino (amenity=casino) despite its shop-like name; near Mandal Grounds and Chaitanyapuri metro station.

Iovalia

Iovalia (Iovallio, Ἰούολλον) was a Roman mutatio (road station) at modern Valpovo, Croatia, on the Mursa–Poetovium road, recorded in the Tabula Peutingeriana, the 333 Bordeaux Itinerary, and Ptolemy; Barrington Atlas 20 F4, Pleiades 197325.

Iovia

Iovia: Roman town and 4th-century fortress in Pannonia inferior at Alsóhetény, Hungary, on the Sopianae–Brigetio road; Celtic name, founded 2nd century, abandoned about 430. Distinct from Iovia/Botivo in Croatia.

Iovis

Iovis, Latin genitive of Jupiter, names several ancient places: a Roman fort at Abu Qurayyah in Egypt's Eastern Desert, Iovis Lareni near Sulmo, Iovis Pagus, and Templum Iovis in Thrace.

Iovis Tifatinus

Iovis Tifatinus, Jupiter Tifatinus, epithet of Jupiter worshipped on Monte Tifata near ancient Capua, attested only on the Tabula Peutingeriana; temple excavated 1995-96 at San Prisco, with bronze votive tablets from the late Republic onward.

Iovisura

Iovisura was a minor Roman road station, Barrington Atlas 12 F4, Pleiades place 118762, tentatively identified with Ohu, linked by a conjectured Antonine Itinerary secondary road to Mangolding.

Ipatiev House

Ipatiev House (Ипатьевский дом), a Yekaterinburg mansion owned by engineer Nikolai Ipatiev, was the Bolshevik prison where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot in the basement on 16–17 July 1918; demolished in 1977 under Yeltsin, the site now holds the Church on the Blood.

Ipogeo dei Cristallini

Ipogeo dei Cristallini: four Hellenistic Greek chamber tombs of the 4th century BC, twelve meters under Via dei Cristallini in Naples's Rione Sanità, discovered in 1889 by Baron di Donato and opened to the public in June 2022.

Ipogeo delle Ghirlande

Ipogeo delle Ghirlande (Hypogeum of the Garlands), Roman chamber tomb found in 2000 at Grottaferrata on the Via Latina's tenth mile, holding garland-covered sarcophagi of Aebutia Quarta and Carvilius Gemellus and his famous gold portrait ring.

Iram of the Pillars (إرم ذات العماد)

Iram of the Pillars (إرم ذات العماد), also linked to Ubar, is a name occurring once in Quran 89:7 about the people of ʿĀd, elaborated by legend into a lost golden city and sought at Shisr, Oman, in 1992.

Irati Biosphere Reserve

Irati Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 5 July 2024 in Navarre, Spain, covering 53,660 ha of the Salazar and Aezkoa valleys in the western Pyrenees, with Europe's second largest beech forest and 2,435 inhabitants.

Irgenhausen

Irgenhausen Castrum (Kastell Irgenhausen), late Roman road fort in Pfäffikon, canton Zürich, Switzerland, on the Danube–Iller–Rhine rearward line; roughly 60 m square with corner and wall towers, built over a villa rustica, dated around 295 or 370, abandoned around AD 400.

Iron Gates Natural Park

Iron Gates Natural Park (Parcul Natural Porțile de Fier), Romania's third largest protected area at 1,156 km2 on the Danube Gorge, IUCN Category V, Ramsar site 1946, transboundary with Serbia's Djerdap since 2023.

Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan)

Darband Wall, or Iron Gates Wall, is a 1.1 km ancient linear fortification in Baysun District, southern Uzbekistan, at the Bactria-Sogdiana border pass; radiocarbon dating places construction in the 3rd century BC with Kushan-era rebuilding.

Ironbridge Gorge

Ironbridge Gorge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Telford, Shropshire, England, inscribed in 1986 as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, where Abraham Darby first smelted iron with coke in 1709.

Isara

Isara: ancient name shared by the Isère river in Gaul (Greek Ἰσάρας, Rhone tributary), a Gallo-Roman village at Pontoise-lès-Noyon, France (Pleiades 109066), and a town in Ogun state, Nigeria; distinct from Isaura in Anatolia.

Isca Silurum

Isca Silurum, also known as Isca Augusta, was a Roman legionary fortress at modern Caerleon in southeast Wales on the River Usk, base of Legio II Augusta for over two centuries.

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks, Argentina: two adjoining protected areas (275,369 ha) inscribed by UNESCO in 2000 for the world's most complete continental Triassic fossil record, including early dinosaurs like Eoraptor.

Iscroni

Iscroni, a village in Aninoasa, Hunedoara County, Romania, in the Jiu Valley; a possible Roman-period gold-washing and mining site (RAN 87237.01) and site of the Iscroni (Livezeni Sud) hard coal mine, closed in 2001.

Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory

TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure) is a dual-status Bolivian national park and indigenous territory of the Mojeño, Yuracaré, and Tsimane peoples, titled in 2009 at 1,091,656 hectares, known for the contested Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos highway and coca-driven deforestation.

iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park

iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park is a transboundary UNESCO World Heritage natural site (397,403 ha) on the South Africa–Mozambique coast, inscribed 1999 and extended 2025 under criteria vii, ix, x.

Isinisca

Isinisca (Isunisca, Isinisco) was a Roman road station in Raetia near Helfendorf between Rosenheim and Munich, known from the Tabula Peutingeriana, the Antonine Itinerary, and milestone CIL III 5991.

Isis Tomb

The Isis Tomb is a lost elite chamber tomb of the Polledrara necropolis at Vulci, Italy, found in 1839 on Lucien Bonaparte's estate and named for a bronze bust once thought to depict Isis; it dates roughly 625–550 BC.

Isla de Coiba

Isla de Coiba, Panama's largest Pacific island in the Gulf of Chiriquí, was a feared penal colony from 1919 to 2004, then became Coiba National Park, a 2005 UNESCO World Heritage Site with high endemism, 760 marine fish species, and a Significant Concern IUCN outlook.