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La Queyrie
La Queyrie: Roman stone quarries in the Plaine de la Queyrie north-east of Die, Drôme, France, in province Narbonensis. Hard Urgonian limestone (gazetteer: marble) extracted 125–275 AD for buildings in Die.
La Recoleta Cemetery
La Recoleta Cemetery (Cementerio de la Recoleta), Buenos Aires' first public cemetery, founded 1822 on Recollect monks' land, designed by Próspero Catelin; over 4,500 vaults, 90+ national monuments, Eva Perón's tomb.
La Roche-Maurice
La Roche-Maurice (Ar Roc'h-Morvan), Finistère commune in Brittany near Landerneau, known for the Roc'h Morvan castle ruins, its 16th-century Saint-Yves parish close with Ankou ossuary, and the Gallo-Roman Valy-Cloître villa.
La Sabana
La Sabana (Zona Arqueológica de 5 de Mayo–La Sabana) is a pre-Hispanic archaeological zone in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on Cerro La Bola, with at least 38 granite petroglyphs, a water-cult ritual site linked to the destroyed Ciudad Perdida settlement, opened to the public in 1997.
La Selle Biosphere Reserve
La Selle Biosphere Reserve, Haiti's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2012), covers 377,221 ha of the Massif de la Selle including Pic la Selle (2,684 m); since 2017 part of the La Selle–Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo transboundary reserve.
La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve
La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Sepultura, REBISE) is a UNESCO MAB site in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 6 June 1995 and designated 2006, protecting dry tropical, pine–oak, and cloud forests with jaguars and over 90 migratory birds.
La Siberia Biosphere Reserve
La Siberia Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de La Siberia), a UNESCO MAB site in northeast Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, designated 19 June 2019; reservoirs on the Guadiana and Zújar rivers, dehesa landscapes, Iberian lynx habitat, expanded to 195,196 ha in 2026.
La Sinagoga mausoleum and villa
La Sinagoga mausoleum and villa: a mid-4th-century cruciform Roman mausoleum (popular name, not a synagogue) and associated villa with baths near Sádaba, Zaragoza, Spain; excavated by García y Bellido in 1962, declared a Spanish national monument in 1963.
La Spirale à Aromates - De Kruidenspiraal
La Spirale à Aromates (De Kruidenspiraal) is a garden in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, named for a herb spiral: a spiral raised bed creating microclimates for aromatic plants.
La Trinité
La Trinité ("the Trinity") names the Christian dogma of three persons in one substance and, in France, 16 communes plus many churches, abbeys, and chapels, including Vendôme's 1034 abbey, the Callas mausoleum-chapel, Paris's Sainte-Trinité, and La Trinité-sur-Mer.
La Vallée d'Iherir
La Vallée d'Iherir (Ramsar Site 1057) is a 57,892-hectare wetland valley in Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer, designated 2 February 2001, with permanent gueltas, relict Saharan species, and major Holocene rock paintings.
La Vautubière
La Vautubière is a Roman villa site at Coudoux, Bouches-du-Rhône, in the lower Arc valley, discovered in 1929 and excavated in 1965 by Bernard Pouyé; its trapetum orbis attests an ancient olive oilery.
La Vergnée a Romegoux
La Vergnée a Romegoux: a large rural Gallo-Roman villa near the hamlet of La Vergnée, Romegoux, Charente-Maritime, France; built late 1st century AD, occupied to the 5th century, excavated 1936-1940 by the Burgauds, covering about 4.25 hectares.
Láb
Láb is a village and municipality in Malacky District, Slovakia, in the Záhorie Lowland 8 km south of Malacky; first recorded in 1206 as Loyp, with Neolithic to Great Moravian remains and a Roman-period cremation cemetery (Pleiades 128436).
Labirynt w polu kukurydzy
Labirynt w polu kukurydzy (cornfield maze): a seasonal attraction where paths are cut through standing maize, common in Poland and Central Europe; examples at Zator (3.5 ha), Kiszombor (4.5 ha, Central Europe's largest), Kurozwęki, and Slovenia.
Laboya Aqua Palace
Laboya Aqua Palace (雷堡雅魚樂空間) is a public aquarium at Zihyou 3rd Road 155, Zuoying District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; phone +886 7 3502222; opened as boutique aquarium shop 雷堡雅 in 2011 near Lotus Pond.
Lac Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve
Lac Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve (Réserve mondiale de la biosphère du Lac-Saint-Pierre), UNESCO biosphere reserve in Quebec, Canada, designated 2000; 739,401 ha around a St Lawrence fluvial lake, Ramsar site since 1998, North America's largest heronry.
Lachmirowice
Lachmirowice is a village in Kruszwica commune, Kuyavia, Poland, and a multicultural archaeological site (Neolithic to Early Middle Ages) with a Bell Beaker assemblage, a Przeworsk culture cemetery yielding four of Poland's seven known skyfos vessels, and the eponymous Lachmirowice-Apa sword type.
Lacus Curtius
Lacus Curtius, a monument in the middle of the Roman Forum explained by three legends (Curtius' self-sacrifice, Mettius Curtius, a lightning spot), excavated by Boni in 1904; dry by Augustus' time.
Lacus Iuturnae
Lacus Iuturnae (Lacus Juturnae), the spring of the nymph Juturna in the southeast Roman Forum beside the Temple of Castor; monumentalized from the 2nd century BC, tied to Castor and Pollux, later the statio aquarum.
Ladamantia
Ladamantia (Leodamantium, Zygris) was an ancient coastal place on the Libyan coast, listed by Ptolemy at 57°30, 31°00; underwater work at Marsa found 54 ancient anchors and Roman amphorae.
Ladispoli
Ladispoli, also called the city of Ladislao Odescalchi, is a Tyrrhenian coastal town in Lazio founded in 1888, autonomous from Cerveteri since 1970, on the territory of the ancient Roman colony of Alsium.
Ladle Hill Iron Age Fort
Ladle Hill Iron Age Fort: an unfinished Early Iron Age hillfort on Ladle Hill, Hampshire, scheduled with a saucer barrow, disc barrow and Bronze Age linear earthworks; its abandoned defences show hillfort construction methods.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: botanic garden, arboretum, and native plant research institution in south Austin, Texas, founded in 1982 by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes and part of the University of Texas at Austin since 2006.
Læso
Læso (Læsø), Ramsar Site 149 in Denmark, is a 66,380 ha coastal wetland in the northern Kattegat, the largest Danish tidal and saltmarsh area outside the Wadden Sea, designated for Common Scoter and managed through grazing and the LIFE Læsø project.
Laetoli
Laetoli, Tanzania: Pliocene site with the oldest known hominin footprints, a 27 m trail of about 70 prints in 3.66-million-year-old volcanic ash, likely made by Australopithecus afarensis and showing human-like bipedal walking.
Lagentium
Lagentium, also recorded as Legeolio and Lagecio, was a Roman fort and civilian settlement beneath Castleford, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire, occupied from around AD 71 to about 364.
Laghetto di Colonna
Laghetto di Colonna: Roman villa site near Colonna, Castelli Romani, Italy, identified via Thomas Ashby's 1902 study and the Barrington Atlas; early Empire remains on cliffs above a basin, distinct from Lacus Regillus.
Lago di Paola
Lago di Paola (Lago di Sabaudia), a brackish coastal lake in Latina province, Lazio, at the foot of Monte Circeo; 400 ha, two Roman-era sea channels, Ramsar and Natura 2000 site, Scalfati-owned fishery.
Lagoon (amusement park)
Lagoon is a family-owned amusement park in Farmington, Utah, opened in 1886 as Lake Park on the Great Salt Lake and relocated to Farmington in 1896; known for the 1921 wooden Roller Coaster and the 2015 Cannibal coaster.