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Kirti Mandir, Barsana
Kirti Mandir, Barsana: Hindu temple dedicated to Kirti Maiya, mother of Radha Rani, showing child Radha in her lap. Founded by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, inaugurated 10 February 2019; 80,000 sq ft, 111 feet tall, near Rangeeli Mahal.
Kitakitsune Fox Farm
Kitakitsune Fox Farm (北きつね牧場), opened 1983 in Kitami, Hokkaido, keeps about 50 free-range Ezo red foxes and 5 raccoon dogs on 60,000 square meters; 500 yen admission, open daily, compared with Zao Fox Village.
Kiunga Biosphere Reserve
Kiunga Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 1980 on Kenya's northern Lamu coast, spans 1,205,261 ha around Kiunga Marine National Reserve and Dodori, protecting turtles, dugongs, seabirds and coastal forests.
Kizhi Pogost
Kizhi Pogost (Кижский погост) is a walled enclosure of wooden churches on Kizhi Island in Lake Onega, Karelia, Russia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.
Kizil Caves
Kizil Caves (克孜尔石窟), Buddhist rock-cut cave complex near Kucha, Xinjiang, China; earliest in China, about 339 caves from around 300 CE, famed for Indo-Iranian, Sasanian, and Gandharan murals with lapis lazuli blue.
Kizlyar Bay Biosphere Reserve
Kizlyar Bay Biosphere Reserve (Кизлярский залив), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Dagestan, Russia, designated 2017; 354,100 ha around one of the largest Caspian Sea bays, key for migratory waterbirds, Caspian seal and sturgeons.
KL Tower Mini Zoo
KL Tower Mini Zoo, a small indoor/outdoor petting zoo on the ground floor of Menara Kuala Lumpur, featured meerkats, parrots, llamas, tortoises, and a Falabella horse; sibling of Farm in the City, now reported permanently closed.
Klamath Reservation
The Klamath Reservation was an Indian reservation in southern Oregon established by the 1864 treaty with the Klamath and Modoc tribes, terminated by Congress in 1954.
Klaros
Klaros (Κλάρος, Clarus): ancient Greek oracle sanctuary of Apollo in Ionia, in the territory of Kolophon near Notion, Turkey. Peak in Hellenistic and Roman times; male seer drank sacred spring water in an underground adyton; excavated from 1907.
Klaudianon
Klaudianon, the ancient name of the Roman fort-and-quarry settlement at Mons Claudianus, Jabal Fatira, Egypt's Eastern Desert; granodiorite quarried for Rome, attested in ostraca, active mainly Trajanic-Hadrianic.
Kleidi Roman bridge (Emathia)
Kleidi Roman bridge (Ρωμαϊκή Γέφυρα στο Κλειδί, Klidhi bridge), a Late Roman multi-arch bridge near Kleidi, Emathia, Greece, on a Via Egnatia branch over the Loudias; only one arch (17.14 m span) survives.
Kleinzerbst
Kleinzerbst, a village in Aken (Elbe), Saxony-Anhalt, site of a Germanic cemetery of the late La Tene and early Roman Imperial periods, published by Erika Schmidt-Thielbeer in 1998, with Neolithic and Bronze Age finds and a 1944 war-crimes case.
Klimataria
Klimataria (Κλιματαριά), also the Piskokefalo Minoan Mansion or Klimataria–Manares building, is a two-storey Neopalatial Minoan country villa near Sitia, Crete, excavated by Nikolaos Platon from 1952 and reassessed in 2005 as a 'country villa'.
Klin-Yar
Klin-Yar (Клин-Яр, "crooked valley"), a multi-period cemetery near Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai, North Caucasus, used from the 8th century BC Koban Culture through Sarmatian and Alanic phases to the 7th–8th centuries AD, with over 400 excavated graves and a rich 'elite plot' on a Silk Road branch.
Klosterneuburg
Klosterneuburg, Lower Austrian Danube town near Vienna, site of the Roman auxiliary fort Arrianis (also proposed: Asturis, Cannabiaca, Quadriburgium) on the Danube Limes, occupied about 70–500 AD, later split from Korneuburg and home to Stift Klosterneuburg.
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek, a Canada-USA transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 1979, holds the world's largest non-polar icefield across four parks in Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska.
Knaresborough Castle
Knaresborough Castle: medieval royal castle above the River Nidd in North Yorkshire, first recorded 1130, rebuilt under Edward II with the King's Tower, demolished 1648; now a scheduled monument owned by the Duchy of Lancaster.
Kneblinghausen Roman camp
Kneblinghausen Roman camp (Römerlager Kneblinghausen), a Roman military site near Rüthen, Westphalia: two overlapping enclosures of about 10 and 7.5 ha with clavicula gates, over a Germanic settlement; date and function still unresolved.
Knockeen dolmen
Knockeen dolmen (Knockeen Portal Tomb) is a Neolithic portal tomb in Knockeen townland, County Waterford, Ireland, near Tramore. Dated 4000-3000 BC, about 3.5 m high, with two capstones, built into Knockeen Church graveyard wall; National Monument 421 in state guardianship.
Knocknakilla megaliths
Knocknakilla megaliths (Cnoc na Cille), Bronze Age complex on Musherabeg Mountain, Co. Cork: five-stone circle, standing stone pair, radial cairn; excavated by Gogan 1931; National Monument 420 in OPW guardianship.
Knook Castle hill fort
Knook Castle is an Iron Age hillslope hill fort on Knook Down, Wiltshire, enclosing 1.75 ha within bank, ditch and counterscarp, scheduled in 1981 with two Romano-British settlements, field systems, a trackway and a bowl barrow.
Knossos
Knossos (Κνωσός), on Crete's north coast, is the largest Minoan palace site, excavated by Evans from 1900, source of Minoan chronology, famed for drainage, frescoes, and debated concrete reconstructions.
Knott's Berry Farm
Knott's Berry Farm is a theme park in Buena Park, California, owned by Six Flags, that grew out of Walter and Cordelia Knott's berry farm and chicken dinner restaurant.
Knowlton Church and Earth Works
Knowlton Church and Earth Works, Dorset: a ruined 12th-century Norman church standing inside Church Henge, part of the Knowlton Circles, a late Neolithic henge and barrow ceremonial complex on Cranborne Chase.
Knowth
Knowth, County Meath, Ireland: Neolithic passage tomb in the Brú na Bóinne complex with Newgrange and Dowth, twin east-west passages, largest single-site megalithic art collection in Europe, main use 3200-2900 BC.
KOBE Animal Kingdom
KOBE Animal Kingdom (神戸どうぶつ王国) is an all-weather animal and botanical park on Port Island, Kobe, opened July 2014 on the former Kobe Flower and Bird Garden site, with a 15,000 m² glasshouse, 130 animal species, and hands-on feeding and bird shows.
Kobe Oji Zoo
Kobe Oji Zoo (神戸市立王子動物園) is a municipal zoo in Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan, reopened in 1951, holding about 800 animals of 130 species including koalas; its pandas are gone after Tantan's death and renovations run 2024–2030.
Kobe Suma Sea World
Kobe Suma Sea World (神戸須磨シーワールド) is an aquarium in Suma Ward, Kobe, opened June 1, 2024, replacing Suma Aqualife Park; run by Granvista Hotels & Resorts, it is western Japan's only orca aquarium.
Kobuk Valley National Park
Kobuk Valley National Park is a roadless 1.75-million-acre park in northwestern Alaska, established 1980 under ANILCA, known for the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, the largest active Arctic dunes, and 250,000 migrating Western Arctic caribou.
Kobushi Biosphere Reserve
Kobushi Biosphere Reserve (甲武信ユネスコエコパーク), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 19 June 2019 as Japan's tenth, covering 190,603 ha of the Kanto Mountains' Okuchichibu ridge across Saitama, Tokyo, Yamanashi, and Nagano prefectures, source of four major rivers.