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Kilchurn Castle
Kilchurn Castle, at the NE end of Loch Awe, Argyll, is a ruined mid-15th-century Campbell of Glenorchy tower-house castle, converted in 1689 by the 1st Earl of Breadalbane into a garrison with Britain's oldest surviving mainland barracks, unroofed by about 1770.
Kilimanjaro National Park
Kilimanjaro National Park (TANAPA/KINAPA) in northeastern Tanzania protects Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m with Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira cones; a 1973 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, known for its glaciers and climbing routes.
Kiln site
Kiln site is a scheduled monument in Weobley, Herefordshire, England, National Heritage List entry 1005313, scheduled 17 March 1976, legacy ID HE 208, grid SO401515; the record gives no kiln type or date.
Kilombero Valley Floodplain
Kilombero Valley Floodplain: Tanzania's Ramsar-designated wetland (designated 2002), the largest seasonal freshwater lowland floodplain in East Africa, about 260 km long, with endemic birds, the puku antelope, and heavy agricultural conversion.
Kilwa Kisiwani
Kilwa Kisiwani is an island off southern Tanzania whose trading town peaked in the 13th and 14th centuries, controlling Indian Ocean gold and ivory trade.
Kimen botanical garden
Kimen Botanical Garden (金門植物園), Kinmen Botanical Garden, is a 26-hectare garden at Taiwu Mountain, Jinhu, Kinmen, converted from the 1955 Taiwu military nursery, with 564 plant species and over 80 reused bunkers.
Kimnyoung Maze Park
Kimnyoung Maze Park (김녕미로공원, Gimnyeong Maze Park) is Korea's first maze park, on Jeju Island near Manjanggul Lava Tube, built of 3-meter Leylandii hedges, home to about 50 free-roaming cats, founded by American professor F.H. Dustin.
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu) is a national park in Sabah, Malaysia, on northern Borneo, dominated by Mount Kinabalu, the island's highest peak, and established in 1964.
Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark
Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark, Sabah, Malaysia: 4,750 km² geopark around Mount Kinabalu (4,095 m), designated 2023, second in Malaysia after Langkawi, with 46 geosites and Triple Crown UNESCO status.
Kinabatangan Biosphere Reserve
The Kinabatangan Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2025 in Sabah, Malaysia, covering 413,867 hectares along the Kinabatangan River in Borneo.
Kinchega National Park
Kinchega National Park, a 44,182-hectare NSW park on the Darling River near Menindee, established 1967 from Kinchega Station, with the historic 1875 Kinchega Woolshed, Paakantji heritage, and Menindee Lakes wetlands.
King Cobra Chiang Mai Show
King Cobra Chiang Mai Show, also reached as Mae Rim or King Cobra Chiang Mai Farm, is a live snake attraction on Route 1096 in Mae Raem, Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, with cobra handling, venom extraction, and hands-on snake encounters; rated 4.7/5 on Google.
King's Casino Prague
King's Casino Prague, formerly Casino Atrium, is a casino and poker room in the Hilton Hotel Prague, host of EPT Prague and WSOP Europe 2026, owned via King's Entertainment by Scott Hanna and Richard Kucik since 2024.
Kingda Ka
Kingda Ka was an Intamin hydraulic-launch steel coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey, opened May 21, 2005; at 456 ft tall and 128 mph it was the world's tallest and fastest coaster until its November 2024 closure and demolition.
Kinglake National Park
Kinglake National Park: 21,600 ha eucalypt forest park on the Great Dividing Range, 65 km northeast of Melbourne, Victoria's largest national park near the city, reserved 1928, managed by Parks Victoria.
Kings Canyon National Park
Kings Canyon National Park, California, established March 4, 1940, absorbed General Grant National Park (1890) as Grant Grove; managed with Sequoia NP, 1,353 sq mi combined, 97% wilderness, glacial Kings Canyon and giant sequoias.
Kings Dominion
Kings Dominion is a 400-acre amusement park in Doswell, Virginia, opened in 1975, with about 60 rides, 13 roller coasters, and the included Soak City waterpark.
Kings Island
Kings Island is a 364-acre amusement and water park in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati, opened April 29, 1972 by Taft Broadcasting. Home of The Beast, the world's longest wooden coaster, and Banshee, the longest inverted coaster; now owned by Six Flags after the 2024 Cedar Fair merger.
Kings Park, Western Australia
Kings Park (Kaarta Koomba), Perth, Western Australia: 400-hectare inner-city park and Western Australian Botanic Garden on Mount Eliza, larger than Central Park, 5.41 million visitors (2023-24), $1.7 billion 30-year value.
Kings Romans Casino
Kings Romans Casino, Golden Triangle SEZ, Ton Pheung, Bokeo Province, Laos: casino opened by Zhao Wei's Hong Kong-registered Kings Romans Group under a 99-year 2007 lease; US-sanctioned in 2018, UK in 2023, linked to trafficking and cyber-scam operations.
Kinneil
Kinneil Roman fortlet, Bo'ness, Scotland: the only visible Antonine Wall fortlet remains, discovered 1978, excavated 1980-81, measuring 18.5 by 21.5 m, later converted to an observation tower.
Kinosaki Marine World
Kinosaki Marine World (城崎マリンワールド) is a hands-on aquarium in Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan, opened in 1934 on the Sea of Japan coast, known for its 12-meter-deep main tank, dolphin and sea lion shows, and catch-and-eat horse mackerel tempura fishing.
Kinvaston Fort
Kinvaston Fort: two superimposed Roman forts near Penkridge, Staffordshire, discovered by aerial survey in 1946; the larger, mid first century enclosure is a possible vexillation fortress near Watling Street and Pennocrucium.
Kirikongo
Kirikongo is an archaeological site of 13 occupation mounds in the Mouhoun Bend, western Burkina Faso, inhabited ca. 100–1650 CE and excavated by Stephen Dueppen; known for a twelfth-century egalitarian revolution, iron production, and ritual mound formation.
Kirk Sink
Kirk Sink Roman villa, Gargrave, North Yorkshire: scheduled monument (1012616) beside the River Aire, occupied from the Brigantian Iron Age to the late 4th century AD, excavated 1968-1975, with unique wooden-pipe water supply.
Kirkbride
Kirkbride, Cumbria: village and site of a late first/early second century AD Roman fort, western terminus of the Stanegate frontier, abandoned when Hadrian's Wall opened in 122; scheduled monument 1018653.
Kirkebakkegård
Kirkebakkegård is the name of several Danish farms, the best known a site near Uggeløse with rich Roman Iron Age graves, including a princely burial excavated in 1966.
Kirkhill Roman signal station
Kirkhill Roman signal station (SM90332) is a scheduled Gask Ridge watchtower site in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, built in AD 79–80 and abandoned about AD 87–88, one of a chain of timber towers beside the Roman road from Strageath to Perth.
Kirkland
Kirkland Roman Fortlet, a Flavian-period Roman fortlet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, at grid NX804901; discovered aerially in 1989, excavated by Lawrence Keppie, deliberately demolished before Roman withdrawal.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is a garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, founded in 1913 to conserve South Africa's indigenous flora.