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Kungsgården
Kungsgården (kungsgård, royal demesne) is the Swedish term for a crown-administered farm and the name of several sites, notably Gamla Uppsala's excavated royal estate, Bjärtrå skans, Ven, Flyinge, and Kronoberg.
Kunming Botanical Garden
Kunming Botanical Garden (昆明植物园), founded 1938 under the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, conserves Southwest Chinese plants ex situ, holding 602 national key protected species, Fuligong greenhouses, and a Lijiang alpine campus.
Kunming Zoo
Kunming Zoo (昆明动物园), also called Yuantong Mountain Zoo, is a public urban zoo in Kunming, Yunnan, China, founded in 1953 on Yuantong Mountain; it holds over 200 species, five Yunnan signature animal populations, Ming wall remnants, and the 2024 monkey-cat controversy.
Kunya-Urgench
Kunya-Urgench (Konye-Urgench), Turkmenistan: ruins of medieval Urgench, capital of Khorezm, on the Amu Daria. UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005, criteria ii and iii, with the 60-m Kutlug-Timur minaret and 11th-16th century mausoleums.
Kurdzhips
Kurdzhips (Курджипс) is a Western Caucasus river in Adygea, Russia, a left tributary of the Belaya, and the name of a famous 4th-century BCE Scythian-era kurgan near Maykop studied by L.K. Galanina.
Kurhan Perep'yatykha
Kurhan Perep'yatykha (Переп'ятиха), early Scythian burial mound of the late 7th century BC near Mar'ianivka, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine; excavated 1845 by Ivanishev with Shevchenko; 180 m² chamber, 14 burials, tomb of a Scythian leader.
KURKKU FIELDS
KURKKU FIELDS (クルックフィールズ) is a sustainable farm and park in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan, opened in 2019 by music producer Takeshi Kobayashi's company, combining organic JAS-certified farming, on-site food production, art by Yayoi Kusama and others, lodging, and education.
Kushiro City Tanchozuru Nature Park
Kushiro City Tanchozuru Nature Park (釧路市丹頂鶴自然公園), Japan's first crane park, opened 1958 in Kushiro, Hokkaido, to protect and breed the red-crowned crane; achieved the world's first artificial hatching in 1970.
Kushk Khainfar
Kushk Khainfar (Kush Khainfar) is an ancient Chahar Taq four-arch domed site in western Iran, likely a Zoroastrian fire-temple, recorded at Barrington Atlas map 92 B3 with Late Antique (L?) dating.
Kustendorf
Kustendorf, also Drvengrad (Дрвенград) or Mećavnik, is a wooden ethno village built by Emir Kusturica on Mećavnik hill above Mokra Gora, Serbia, during filming of Life Is a Miracle; it hosts the January Kustendorf film festival and operates as a hotel village.
Kutaisi Kolkhuri Botanical Garden
Kutaisi Kolkhuri Botanical Garden (ქუთაისის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is a botanical garden on the Rioni River in Kutaisi, Georgia, dating to 1840 and formally established 1969; third largest in Georgia with about 700 species, Red List Colchian relics, and a chapel inside a 400-year-old oak.
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
Kutná Hora World Heritage Site (UNESCO 1995, criteria ii and iv), Czech Republic: medieval silver-mining royal town with late Gothic St Barbara's Church and Sedlec Cathedral rebuilt in Santini's Baroque Gothic style.
Kütralkura UNESCO Global Geopark
Kütralkura UNESCO Global Geopark (Parque Kutralkura), Chile's first UNESCO Global Geopark, designated April 2019 in Araucanía Region; Mapudungun for "stone of fire", a volcanic territory with Llaima, Lonquimay, Tolhuaca and Sollipulli volcanoes and Mapuche-Pewenche communities.
Kuwait Aquarium
Kuwait Aquarium, formally the Mijbil Almutawa Aquarium at The Scientific Center (المركز العلمي) in Salmiya, opened 2000 under KFAS; once the Middle East's largest aquarium, organized around desert, coastal, and sea Gulf habitats.
Kyeran Islet
Kyeran Islet, a small island in Pyongyang, North Korea, hosts a zoo with animal enclosures in a river setting. It lies about 719 m from the KCNA building and is grouped with Sosong Bridge and Potongmun among central Pyongyang sights.
Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyiv, Ukraine, inscribed 1990: 11th-century Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra cave monastery; on the danger list since 2023 and damaged by Russian strikes in 2025 and 2026.
Kynosarges
Kynosarges (Cynosarges, Κυνόσαργες), Athenian sanctuary of Heracles and gymnasium on the south bank of the Ilissos in deme Diomeia; gymnasium of the nothoi, Themistocles, Cynics, excavated 1896-97 by the British School at Athens.
Kynosoura (promontory)
Kynosoura (Κυνόσουρα, "dog's tail"), ancient promontory in Attica (modern Barbaro/Stomi near Marathon) and long eastern peninsula of Salamis; the latter framed the 480 BC Battle of Salamis, hosted a victory trophy, and shares its name with a Spartan village and Ursa Minor.
Kyoto Aquarium
Kyoto Aquarium (京都水族館), opened 14 March 2012 in Umekoji Park, Kyoto, is Japan's first large-scale inland aquarium using 100% artificial seawater, run by ORIX, with about 200 species, 10,000 animals, giant salamanders, and a 500-ton Sea of Kyoto tank.
Kyoto Botanical Garden (京都府立植物園)
The Kyoto Botanical Garden (京都府立植物園) is a 24-hectare prefectural botanical garden in northern Kyoto, opened in 1924 and described as Japan's oldest public botanical garden, with about 500 cherry trees and a large conservatory.
Kyoto City Zoo
Kyoto City Zoo (京都市動物園), a municipal zoo in Okazaki Park, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto; opened 1 April 1903 as Japan's second zoo, with 750-yen adult admission, Monday closures, night openings, and a wildlife research and education center.
Kyoto Medicinal Plant Garden
Kyoto Medicinal Plant Garden (京都薬用植物園), formally Takeda Garden for Medicinal Plant Conservation, Kyoto, is Takeda Pharmaceutical's 1933-founded garden in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, with about 3,000 species, a 500-variety camellia collection, and Japan's first company-run registered museum status (2024).
Kyrthanion
Kyrthanion (Cyrtanium), ancient coastal settlement and summer anchorage in southeastern Cyrenaica, Libya, identified with Marsá Bū al 'Ifrīt cove near Tobruk; cited by Scylax, Ptolemy, and the Stadiasmus.
Kyz Kala
Kyz Kala is a pair of corrugated earthen residences in medieval Sultan Kala at Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan, among the best surviving köshks of the early Islamic period.
L-Shaped Palace at Gla
L-Shaped Palace at Gla (Melathron, μέλαθρον): early 13th-century BC Mycenaean administrative building on the Gla citadel, Boeotia; two identical L-plan wings, no central megaron, oversaw Kopais drainage and grain storage, destroyed by fire before 1200 BC.
L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows, on Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula, is an 11th-century Norse encampment discovered in 1960 by the Ingstads, the only confirmed Norse site in the Americas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978, dated to AD 1021.
l'Aquàrium de Barcelona
L'Aquàrium de Barcelona, opened September 1995 on Port Vell's Moll d'Espanya, is the largest Mediterranean-themed aquarium in the world, with an 80-metre shark tunnel, a 4.5-million-liter Oceanarium, 11,000 specimens, and about 40 million visitors, operated by Aspro Ocio.
L’Ecluse
L’Ecluse names Fort l’Écluse, a French frontier fortress at Léaz (Ain) guarding the Rhône defile, from a 1277 castrum to 1940 resistance; also Les Cluses Roman clausurae, canal locks, and Carolus Clusius.
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre (Львів) is a UNESCO World Heritage property in Ukraine, inscribed 1998 under criteria (ii) and (v), on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2023 due to war damage.
La Alcudia
La Alcudia (L'Alcúdia), archaeological site of ancient Ilici near Elche, Alicante, Spain; find-spot of the Lady of Elche (1897); Roman colony Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta; Domus project documented its full 2,000-year sequence.