Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Altin Dilyar tepe

Altin Dilyar tepe, also spelled Altïn Dilyār, is an unexcavated Achaemenid-period (ca. 6th–4th century BCE) circular walled town of about 15 hectares with a 28-meter citadel, in Dawlatabad District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, north of Balkh.

Altinum (Romania)

Altinum (Altina) was a Roman castrum and civilian settlement at Oltina, Dobrogea, Romania, on the Danube limes between Durostorum and Sacidava; garrisoned by ala I Gallorum Flaviana, a fleet base of Moesia Secunda, rebuilt under Justinian I.

Alto Douro Wine Region

Alto Douro Wine Region (Alto Douro Vinhateiro), Portugal's Douro valley cultural landscape, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001 under criteria iii, iv, v; 24,600 ha of terraced vineyards producing Port wine for 2,000 years, demarcated since 1756.

Alto Golfo de California y El Pincate Biosphere Reserve

Alto Golfo de California y El Pincate is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in northeastern Mexico's Sonora state, designated in 1993 and the only home of the endangered vaquita porpoise.

Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve

Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve (RBAOC), Venezuela's largest, decreed 1991 and UNESCO MAB-designated 1993; 8,477,466 ha in Amazonas state protecting Orinoco headwaters and the Casiquiare channel linking Orinoco and Amazon basins, home mainly to Yanomami and Yekuana peoples.

Alto Turia Biosphere Reserve

Alto Turia Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera del Alto Turia), UNESCO MAB site designated 19 June 2019; 67,082.36 ha in Valencia and Cuenca provinces, Spain; eight municipalities, 4,153 inhabitants, managed by the Mancomunidad del Alto Turia; also a Starlight Reserve.

Alton Towers

Alton Towers: Staffordshire theme park resort opened 4 April 1980 around a Gothic stately home and Grade I gardens, owned by Merlin Entertainments, with 40+ rides, Nemesis, The Smiler, a waterpark and Scarefest.

Altyn-Emel Biosphere Reserve

Altyn-Emel Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan, designated in 2017 and covering about 535,900 hectares of desert and mountains.

Alulak

Алулак (Tajik: Алӯлак) is a name shared by three subjects: a theme park in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; a village in Qazvin Province, Iran; and a kid goat in a Tajik folk tale.

Alushta Aquarium

Алуштинский аквариум (Alushta Aquarium): public aquarium in Alushta, Crimea, founded 2003 by ichthyologists under Viktor Zhilenko in the trolleybus ticket office building; over 250 fish species, crocodiles, turtles, four halls plus World of the Jungle.

Alvin McDonald

Alvin Frank McDonald (1873–1893), also signed ZUQ, was the first tour guide and systematic explorer of Wind Cave, South Dakota, mapping 8–10 miles by candlelight before dying of typhoid at 20.

Alwahda Park

Alwahda Park (حديقة الوحدة, Unity Park) is a 5.9-acre public park in Sana'a, Yemen, on Algiers Street in the Al-Wahda district, open daily 06:00 to midnight, distinct from same-named parks in Seiyun and Amman.

Alxa Desert UNESCO Global Geopark

Alxa Desert UNESCO Global Geopark, in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China, designated 2015, spans 68,374 km² across the Badan Jaran, Tengger, and Juyan geo-regions, featuring the world's largest megadunes and desert lakes.

Amaravati Stupa

Amaravati Stupa (mahācetiya), ruined Buddhist monument at Amaravathi, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, built in phases from the 3rd century BCE to about 250 CE; its limestone sculptures are now chiefly in Chennai, the site museum, and the British Museum.

Amazon Estuary and its Mangroves

Amazon Estuary and its Mangroves (Estuário do Amazonas e seus Manguezais), Ramsar Site no. 2337, Brazil, designated 2018: a 38,502.53 km2 corridor of 23 conservation units on the Marajó archipelago holding the world's largest continuous mangrove formation.

Amazonia Theaters

Amazonia Theaters: UNESCO World Heritage serial site (inscribed 2026, criteria ii and iv) joining the Theatro da Paz in Belém and the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, late-19th-century opera houses of the Amazon rubber boom.

Ambedkar Memorial Park

Ambedkar Memorial Park, popularly known as Ambedkar Park, is a public park and memorial in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, India, built to honor B. R. Ambedkar and other social reformers.

Amboseli National Park

Amboseli National Park is a 392 km² park in Kajiado County, Kenya, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, gazetted in 1974, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1991, famed for about 1,800 elephants and the world's longest-running wild elephant study.

Ambrae

Ad Ambrae (Ambrae, Ambre), a Roman mansio in Raetia named in the Antonine Itinerary 27 Roman miles from Augsburg, identified with Schöngeising, Bavaria; military finds from 1992.

Ambresbury Banks

Ambresbury Banks is a slight univallate Iron Age hillfort in Epping Forest, Essex, near Theydon Bois; a Scheduled Monument with a single bank, ditch, and northwest entrance, excavated from 1881 by Pitt-Rivers.

Ambuluwawa tower

Ambuluwawa Tower is a 48 m white spiral observation tower atop Ambuluwawa Mountain (3,567 ft) near Gampola, Kandy District, Sri Lanka, centerpiece of a biodiversity complex with Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim shrines, first developed from 1997.

Amden

Amden, a municipality in canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, on a terrace above Lake Walensee; home to the early Roman Stralegg watchtower at Betlis, seven registered archaeological sites, and the Meyer-Amden artists' colony.

America

America's botanical gardens: living plant museums begun with Bartram's Garden (1728, Philadelphia) and the U.S. Botanic Garden (1820), now over 800 U.S. institutions with 80 million annual visits, documented collections, and plant trialing programs.

America Sings

America Sings was a Disneyland Tomorrowland Audio-Animatronics musical revue (June 29, 1974 to April 10, 1988) in the Carousel Theater, replacing the Carousel of Progress; 114 singing animals hosted by Sam the Eagle (Burl Ives), later recycled into Splash Mountain.

American Battle Monuments Commission

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent U.S. federal agency, established by Congress in 1923, that maintains American military cemeteries and memorials in foreign countries.

Amicalola Falls State Park

Amicalola Falls State Park is a Georgia state park in Dawson County, established 1940, home to the 729-foot Amicalola Falls, the highest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi, and the start of the Appalachian Approach Trail.

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Amida Triad of Chūson-ji Konjikidō

The Amida Triad of Chūson-ji Konjikidō (阿弥陀三尊像) is a set of three gilt wooden Buddhist statues in the Konjikidō Golden Hall at Chūson-ji, Hiraizumi, Japan.

Amin Mound

Amin Mound (Abhimanyukhera, Abhimanyupur) is a 650x250 m ASI-protected archaeological mound in Kurukshetra district, Haryana, tied to the Mahabharata Chakravyuha legend, occupied circa 10th century BC to 1st century AD, with Painted Grey Ware and 2nd-century BC Yaksha pillars.

Amir Timur park

Amir Timur park, or Amir Temur Square (Amir Temur xiyoboni), is Tashkent's central square-park, founded 1870/1882, renamed 1993, with a 1994 bronze equestrian statue of Temur and a 2026 renovation for his 690th birthday.