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Legoland Malaysia
Legoland Malaysia, officially LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort, is a LEGO-themed resort in Iskandar Puteri, near Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Opened in 2012, it was Asia's first Legoland park and Malaysia's first international theme park.
Legoland Windsor
Legoland Windsor (LEGOLAND Windsor Resort) is a Merlin Entertainments LEGO theme park in Berkshire, opened 17 March 1996 on the former Windsor Safari Park site; second LEGOLAND park globally, 55+ rides, 2.43m annual attendance.
Leipsydrion
Leipsydrion (Λειψύδριον, also spelled Leipsydrium) was a fort on Mt. Parnes in ancient Attica where the exiled Alcmaeonidae made a failed attempt to liberate Athens from the Peisistratid tyranny.
Leiqiong UNESCO Global Geopark
Leiqiong UNESCO Global Geopark (雷琼世界地质公园), designated 2015, spans the Qiongzhou Strait between Zhanjiang, Guangdong and Haikou, Hainan; 3,050 km2 with over 100 Quaternary basaltic volcanoes, 38 protected structures, and Huguangyan Maar Lake.
Leketi-Mbama
Leketi-Mbama, Ramsar Site no. 2222, is a 774,965-hectare inland wetland of lakes, marshes, and floodplains in Cuvette-Ouest, Republic of the Congo, designated 2 February 2015; it shelters western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, hippos, and elephants.
Lemeshev
Lemeshev (Лемешев курган), two Scythian kurgans near Bolshaya Znamenka, Ukraine, excavated by Veselovsky in 1911; the Great Lemeshev mound, 8.5 m high with 9 m catacombs, ranks among the lower Dnipro elite burial mounds.
Lemmenjoki National Park
Lemmenjoki National Park (Lemmenjoen kansallispuisto), Finland's largest national park at 2,858 km², established 1956 in Lapland; roadless wilderness with the Lemmenjoki River, Sámi heritage, and gold-panning history.
Lena (protected area)
Lena (protected area) covers the protected areas of the Lena River system in Siberia, chiefly the Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve and Lena Pillars Nature Park, within the Arctic's largest delta, a Polar Freshwaters ecoregion with 34 native fish species.
Lena Pillars Nature Park
Lena Pillars Nature Park (Ленские столбы), Yakutia, Russia: UNESCO World Heritage site since 2012 with ~100 m frost-shattered rock pillars along the Lena River and a major Cambrian fossil record; 1,387,000 ha, Sinyaya added 2015.
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses), created 1981 in Maranhão, Brazil: 156,562 ha of white barchan dunes, the largest dune field in South America, with rain-fed temporary lagoons; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2024.
Lenggong UNESCO Global Geopark
Lenggong UNESCO Global Geopark, Perak, Malaysia, designated 2026 as Malaysia's third UGGp; 2,248 km² between the Titiwangsa and Bintang ranges, with Lawin Tuff, Bukit Bunuh meteorite suevite, Toba ash, and the 2012 Lenggong Valley World Heritage Site.
Lenin's Mausoleum (Мавзолей Ленина)
Lenin's Mausoleum (Мавзолей Ленина), also called Lenin's Tomb, is Aleksey Shchusev's 1930 granite pyramid on Moscow's Red Square displaying Lenin's embalmed body, re-embalmed every 18 months by VILAR.
Leningrad Zoo
Leningrad Zoo (Ленинградский зоопарк), founded 1865 by Julius Gebhardt, is one of Russia's oldest zoos, in central Saint Petersburg's Alexandrovsky Park; over 500 species, siege survivor, heritage-protected 7.4 ha site, planned 85.6 ha second zoo.
Lenthay
Lenthay is an area of Sherborne, Dorset, historically common meadow, now a housing estate. It is the site of a Roman villa whose 1836 Apollo-and-Marsyas tessellated pavement survives at Sherborne Castle.
Leofoo Village Theme Park
Leofoo Village Theme Park (六福村) is an amusement park and open-range safari zoo in Guanxi, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It opened in 1979 and became a themed park in 1994.
Leogrand
Leogrand (now JRW Welmond Hotel & Casino) was a five-star hotel-casino in Batumi, Georgia, opened 2015 with a $40 million, 20-story, 180-room tower; site of the deadly November 2017 fire that killed 11.
León Cathedral
León Cathedral, Nicaragua (Basílica Catedral de la Asunción), built 1747 to early 1800s by Diego José de Porres Esquivel; largest Central American cathedral, UNESCO World Heritage 2011; distinct from the Gothic León Cathedral in Spain.
Lepenski Vir (Лепенски Вир)
Lepenski Vir (Лепенски Вир), a Mesolithic-Neolithic archaeological site on the Danube's right bank in Serbia's Iron Gates gorge, excavated 1965-1970 by Dragoslav Srejović, known for trapezoidal plaster-floored houses, fish-like boulder sculptures, and genetic evidence that early Aegean farmers built its village.
Lepti Minus Roman amphitheater
Lepti Minus (Leptiminus, Leptis Minore) Roman amphitheater: the unexcavated amphitheater of the Roman port town at modern Lamta, Tunisia, in the Sahel, built during the region's 2nd-century prosperity, distinct from Leptis Magna's amphitheater in Libya.
Lercoul
Lercoul is a commune and archaeological site in the Ariège department of the French Pyrenees, known for an ancient iron-smelting workshop excavated in the Forêt-Royale.
Les Averdines
Les Averdines, a toponym southeast of Bourges, Cher, France, names underground Oxfordian limestone quarries (Carrières du Château) worked from Gallo-Roman times, recorded as Barrington Atlas 14 H1, later mushroom farms and a Natura 2000 bat site.
Les Baumelles
Les Baumelles is the site of a Roman maritime villa at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the Var, southern France, occupied from the 1st to the 4th century AD.
Les Convents
Les Convents is the site of Gallo-Roman villa remains on a plateau overlooking the Durance, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer as a villa occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 300.
Les Crânières
Les Crânières, Gallo-Roman sanctuary and vicus at Faye-l'Abbesse (Deux-Sèvres, France), excavated from 1851; circular fanum 15 m across, Celtic sanctuary with mutilated weapons, once identified with Segora.
Les Fouilletières
Les Fouilletières is an ancient location in Roman Gaul documented in the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. It appears on Maps 14 and 18.
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene, Ramsar site no. 1058, is a 35,100 ha permanent guelta wetland at ~2,000 m in Algeria's Ahaggar mountains, designated 2 February 2001, home to desert-endemic Barbus fish and vulnerable gazelle and cheetah.
Les Halles
Les Halles, Paris's central food market from the medieval Champeaux to the Baltard iron-and-glass pavilions (1854-1870s), transferred to Rungis in 1969, demolished 1971, replaced by the Forum des Halles and Canopée.
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay (also Grandes Varennes): Gallo-Roman site on the Vienne in Indre-et-Loire, France, part of a 500 m complex with a fanum straddling Pouzay and Trogues, debated as large villae or a secondary agglomeration.
Les Près-Bas Roman Villa
Les Près-Bas (Loupian, Hérault) is a Gallo-Roman villa occupied from the mid-1st century BC to the 6th century AD, a wine-producing estate with over 90 dolia and Late Antique polychrome mosaics, now a site museum.
Les Rivières de Mbaéré-Bodingué
Les Rivières de Mbaéré-Bodingué, Ramsar site no. 1590 (101,300 ha, designated 2005) in southwestern Central African Republic; wetlands of the Mbaéré and Bodingué rivers adjoining the 86,690-ha Mbaéré-Bodingué National Park, home to gorillas, chimpanzees, and the endemic Cercopithecus cephus ngottoensis.