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Joseph's Tomb
Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) is a domed shrine near ancient Shechem in Nablus, West Bank, venerated by Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims as the burial place of the patriarch Joseph, though it has never been excavated.
Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park, a 795,000-acre southern California park where the Mojave and Colorado Deserts meet, monument in 1936, national park in 1994, named for Yucca brevifolia, with about 870,000 Joshua trees, threatened desert tortoises, and rising heat and drought.
Journey to the West Theme Park
Journey to the West theme parks (西游记主题公园), Chinese parks themed on Wu Cheng'en's novel; flagship is Huai'an Xiyou World of Adventure, opened 2021, 2.2 billion yuan, 9 zones, 42 rides; others in Xi'an, Nanjing, Beijing, Suizhou, Sichuan.
Joy Land (Iraq)
Joy Land (جوي لاند) is an amusement park and recreation center in the Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, with three roller coasters, a wax museum, and a City Walk of restaurants.
Joy World
Joy World, better known as World Joyland (嬉戏谷), is a 2011 video-game-themed amusement park in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, famous for unlicensed World of Warcraft and Starcraft zones and its B&M flying coaster Sky Scrapper.
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Joya de Cerén (Jewel of Cerén), the "Pompeii of the Americas", is a UNESCO World Heritage Maya farming village in La Libertad, El Salvador, buried under 5–7 m of ash by the Loma Caldera eruption around AD 600–650 and discovered in 1976.
Joyce Country and Western Lakes UNESCO Global Geopark
Joyce Country and Western Lakes UNESCO Global Geopark, a 1,560 km2 geopark in north Galway and south-west Mayo, Ireland, designated by UNESCO in April 2026; fifth Irish geopark, first with a Gaeltacht, featuring the Iapetus Ocean story and Killary Fjord.
Joyous Elephant Vale
Joyous Elephant Vale (嬉象谷, also 五彩万象城) is a AAA-rated theme park and water park in Jining, Shandong, China, built for 350 million yuan on 1,136 mu with rides, water slides, and animal exhibits.
Joypolis
Joypolis (ジョイポリス) is a chain of indoor amusement parks created by the Japanese game company Sega, best known for Tokyo Joypolis, opened in Odaiba in 1996.
Jubaiha Amusement City (Jordan)
Jubaiha Amusement City, also called Jubeiha Amusement Park, was a municipally owned amusement park in northern Amman, Jordan, that operated from 1987 until its 2017 closure.
Judge C. R. Magney State Park
Judge C. R. Magney State Park, formerly Brule River State Park, is a Minnesota state park near Grand Marais on Lake Superior's North Shore, home to the Devil's Kettle waterfall, whose vanishing half of the Brule River was shown by 2016 flow measurements to rejoin the river downstream.
Juellinge
Juellinge, near Vesterborg on Lolland, Denmark: Early Roman Iron Age burial site found in 1908 during railway construction, with four graves of three women and a girl, including a richly furnished woman buried with Roman drinking equipment and a cauldron of fermented barley-berry drink.
Julian Alps Biosphere Reserve
Julian Alps Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Slovenia (2003) and Italy (2019), merged in July 2024 into a 267,007 ha transboundary reserve spanning Triglav National Park and Julian Prealps Natural Park.
Jumanji (site)
Jumanji is the name used by several unrelated entertainment venues tied to the Jumanji franchise, including Jumanji MerryLand park in Cairo, Egypt, and licensed Merlin Entertainments attractions such as Gardaland's Jumanji – The Adventure.
Jungle Cruise
Jungle Cruise (Jungle River Cruise in Hong Kong) is a Disney boat-tour attraction opened at Disneyland on July 17, 1955, with skipper-led comedy and animatronic wildlife; versions run at Magic Kingdom, Tokyo, and Hong Disneyland.
Jungle Zone
Jungle Zone (جنغل زون) names two children's attractions: an indoor theme park in Hyatt Plaza, Doha, Qatar, open since 2003, and an inflatable play park in Tavares, Florida; also a park management zone in Lorentz National Park.
JungleLand Adventure Theme Park
JungleLand Adventure Theme Park (Sentul, Bogor) is a 35-hectare Indonesian theme park opened in 2013 by Bakrieland's Bukit Jonggol Asri, with 36-plus rides across Carnivalia and Tropicalia zones, distinct from the same group's The Jungle Waterpark.
Junglia Okinawa
Junglia Okinawa (ジャングリア沖縄) is a 60-hectare nature theme park in Nakijin, northern Okinawa, opened July 25, 2025 by Japan Entertainment, featuring Dinosaur Safari, spa, and 22 attractions with two-tier resident/nonresident pricing.
Jurassic Park: The Ride
Jurassic Park: The Ride, also known as Jurassic Park River Adventure, was a river-raft ride at Universal Studios Hollywood that opened in 1996 and closed in 2018.
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion (Juridiction de Saint-Émilion), a 7,847-hectare UNESCO World Heritage vineyard landscape in Gironde, France, inscribed in 1999 under criteria (iii) and (iv) across eight communes founded by John Lackland.
Juzur Farasan Biosphere Reserve
Juzur Farasan Biosphere Reserve, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2021), is a Red Sea archipelago of over 170 fossil-coral islands, 819,100 ha, protected since 1996, rich in dugongs, turtles, and gazelles.
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (کعبه زرتشت), the Cube of Zoroaster, is an Achaemenid square limestone tower at Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran, around 500 BCE, later carved with Shapur I's trilingual inscription; its original function remains debated.
Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area
Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco (Parque Nacional y ANMI Kaa-Iya) is Bolivia's largest protected area, about 3.4 million hectares of Gran Chaco dry forest created by decree in 1995 at the initiative of the Izoceño-Guaraní people and long co-managed with CABI.
Kabeirion
Kabeirion (Καβείριον): ancient mystery sanctuary of the Kabeiroi at Cape Chloi, Lemnos, near Hephaestia, in use from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, with Archaic, Hellenistic, and late Roman Telesteria and annual nine-day fire mysteries.
Kabetogama, Minnesota
Kabetogama (Minnesota) is an unincorporated community in St. Louis County, serving as a gateway to Kabetogama Lake, a 25,700-acre lake located entirely within Voyageurs National Park.
Kabokuen
花木園 (kabokuen), Japanese flowering tree gardens; notable examples in Showa Kinen Park (about 200 tree and 200 herb species), Yokohama, Saitama, Ome, and Iizuka, planted for seasonal blossom viewing.
Kabraia Mound
Kabraia Mound (Bhainsasur mound), Kabrai town, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh: a small ASI-protected mound with a ruined Chandella temple and old statue, near the Brahm Tal tank, protected since 1921.
Kabul Zoo
Kabul Zoo (باغ وحش کابل) is a zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan, opened in August 1967 with German help and rebuilt with international aid after being ruined in the 1990s civil war.
Kadesh (קדש) (biblical)
Kadesh (קדש), or Kadesh-Barnea, is the biblical wilderness encampment of the Exodus wanderings, where Miriam died and the spies were sent. Identified with Tell el-Qudeirat, northeastern Sinai, an Iron Age fortress oasis site.
Kadhwa Mound
Kadhwa Mound, at Kadhwa in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, is a centrally protected ASI site of mounds covered with broken statues and sculptures, under Jhansi Circle; distinct from Kadwaha, Madhya Pradesh.