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Ixworth Roman villa (United Kingdom)
Ixworth Roman villa (SF55, NHLE 1006047) is a scheduled Roman villa, bath house, hypocaust, and well near Ixworth, Suffolk, found 1834, excavated 1948, with early Saxon occupation of the ruins and a 2008-9 geophysical survey.
Izamal
Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico: historic city built on a major ancient Maya capital, home of the Kinich Kak Moo pyramid and the 1553 convent of San Antonio de Padua; UNESCO tentative list, City of the Three Cultures.
Izlaz
Izlaz (Islaz), Teleorman County, Romania: Danube-side village where the 1848 Proclamation of Islaz was read and near the Roman forts Islaz-Verdea and Islaz-Racovița; distinct from Izlaz in Alba County and other namesakes.
Izu Animal Kingdom
Izu Animal Kingdom (伊豆アニマルキングダム), formerly Izu Bio Park, is a Kamori Kanko zoo, amusement park, and golf complex in Higashiizu-cho, Shizuoka, Japan, opened 1977, known for its walking safari and white tigers.
Izu Granpal Park
Izu Granpal Park (伊豆ぐらんぱる公園), or Izu Granpal Amusement Park, is an outdoor leisure park in Ito, Shizuoka, run by the Izu Shaboten Zoo Group, with a 400 m zip line, dinosaur attractions, 21 free play structures, dog entry, and the GRANILLUMI night illumination event.
Izu Mito Sea Paradise
Izu Mito Sea Paradise (伊豆・三津シーパラダイス, "Mitoshi") is an aquarium in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan, on a natural inlet of Suruga Bay. Founded as Nakanoshima Aquarium in 1930, first in Japan to keep bottlenose dolphins; renamed 1977; run by Izuhakone Railway.
Izu Peninsula UNESCO Global Geopark
Izu Peninsula UNESCO Global Geopark (伊豆半島ユネスコ世界ジオパーク), Japan's ninth UGGp, designated April 2018; the only place where two active volcanic arcs collide, managed from Ito, Shizuoka, with about 175 certified geoguides and green-card revalidation to 2029.
Izvoarele
Izvoarele (Gruia, Mehedinți County, Romania): Danube-bank village with a late Roman fortification (100 x 100 m, corner towers) and a 4th-5th century paleochristian basilica at Câmpu Deciului, km 860.5; distinct from Neolithic Izvoarele in Ilfov.
J Walk جي ووك
J Walk (جي ووك) is a commercial complex in Al-Jamawat Park, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, with two floors, 9 rental areas, a dancing fountain, and 25,000 m² of green space; distinct from Jeddah's City Walk.
J. Edgar Hoover Building
J. Edgar Hoover Building: Brutalist FBI headquarters at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., dedicated 1975, named by Public Law 92-520; aging, overcrowded, slated for relocation.
Jaaukanigás
Jaaukanigás is a 492,000-hectare Ramsar wetland on the middle Paraná River in Santa Fe, Argentina, designated 10 October 2001 (site 1112); an Abipón name meaning "people of the water", with about 300 fish species and 660-plus vertebrates.
Jackson Lake Lodge
Jackson Lake Lodge is a 1955 hotel in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; the first modern-style park lodge and precursor to Mission 66, now a National Historic Landmark.
Jacob's Well
Jacob's Well, also known as the Well of Jacob, is a karst artesian spring near Wimberley, Texas, feeding Cypress Creek from an underwater cave, closed to swimming since 2022.
Jade Water Village
Jade Water Village (玉水寨, Yushuizhai) is a national AAAA scenic area in Baisha, Yulong County, near Lijiang, at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain's foot; a Dongba culture transmission base and headwater of Lijiang's water system.
Jai Alai Hotel
Jai Alai Hotel (回力酒店) is a 132-room, 2-star hotel in Macau's Outer Harbour, opened by SJM in November 2017 in the repurposed Jai Alai Building, connected by walkways to Casino Oceanus and the Macau Maritime Terminal, and leased from Macau Jai Alai Company Limited.
Jaisinghpura Mound
Jaisinghpura Mound (Kankor Tila) is an ASI-protected archaeological mound in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, 100' x 530', excavated 1910-11 by Pandit Radha Krishna, yielding Kushan and Gupta period Buddhist antiquities; protected in 1927.
Jallianwala Bagh (ਜਲ੍ਹਿਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ਼)
Jallianwala Bagh (ਜਲ੍ਹਿਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ਼), also called the Amritsar massacre site, is a walled garden in Amritsar where Reginald Dyer's troops fired on Baisakhi crowds on 13 April 1919, killing 379 by the official count, now a national memorial renovated in 2021.
Jallo Park
Jallo Park (جلو پارک), also Jallo Wildlife Park, is a 461-acre public recreation and wildlife breeding park east of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, established 1978 on a 1922 reserve forest, with free entry, a botanical garden, and a bird hatchery.
Jaluit Atoll Conservation Area
Jaluit Atoll Conservation Area (Ramsar site 1389) protects Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands; marine conservation area since 1999, first Ramsar site in RMI in 2004, with mangroves, turtles, and giant clams.
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
Masjed-e Jāmé (Jameh/Atiq Mosque) of Isfahan, Iran's oldest Friday mosque, begun 841, prototype of the four-iwan plan and double-shell ribbed domes, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012.
James Arthur Williams
James Arthur (Jim) Williams, Savannah antiques dealer and preservationist, restored over 50 historic buildings including Mercer House; known for the 1981 Danny Hansford shooting case and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
James Larkin White
James Larkin "Jim" White (1882–1946), American cowboy and cave explorer, first credited explorer of Carlsbad Cavern in 1898, later the park's first chief ranger.
Jamia Nagar Mound
Jogabai Mound (Joga Bai), Jamia Nagar, South East Delhi: a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound, linked to Qaiqabad Palace, lost under Zakir Nagar and Batla House colonies and listed as untraceable.
Jamuna Amusement Park
Jamuna Amusement Park is the amusement park of the Jamuna Future Park (যমুনা ফিউচার পার্ক) complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with rides like the pirate ship, flying disco, magic windmill, and tower challenger; Tk 50 entry, closed Wednesdays.
Janaen Karbala Waterpark
Janaen Karbala (جنائن) is a resort and waterpark complex in Karbala, Iraq, on Hurr Street, with a water park, 120 commercial units, and parking for 1,200 cars; designed by Mohamad Raouf & Associates (2021).
Janat Park
Janat Park (Jannah/Jannat Park) names several Middle Eastern leisure venues: chiefly Janat Dilmun, Bahrain's largest waterpark (opened 2007, 77,000 sq m, 20+ slides), plus Jannah Park in Basra, Janat Park in Arak, Iran, and Jannat Garden in Shiraz.
Japan Snake Center
Japan Snake Center (ジャパン・スネークセンター) is Japan's only snake-specialized zoo, in Yabuzuka, Ota, Gunma, run by the Japan Snake Institute research foundation; about 200 snakes of 40+ species, venom extraction demos, and a snakebite consultation line.
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States)
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States): sister-city Japanese-style gardens, chiefly San-Kei-En in San Diego's Balboa Park (opened 1991, Yokohama, 12 acres) and Rohoen in Phoenix (Himeji, 3.5 acres), plus the 1965 San Jose garden.
Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve
Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, Reserva de Biosfera Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo, is a UNESCO MAB reserve in southwest Dominican Republic, designated 2002 (first in the country), 476,700 ha, with three core national parks and a transboundary link to Haiti's La Selle reserve.
Jardí Botànic Històric
Jardí Botànic Històric (Historic Botanical Garden of Barcelona), created 1930 by Pius Font i Quer in the Foixarda quarry on Montjuïc, inaugurated 1941, closed 1986, reopened 2003; free entry, cool quarry microclimate, Barcelona's tallest trees.