Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Les Rubricaire (St-Gemmes-le-Robert)

Les Rubricaire (Rubricaire) is a Gallo-Roman fortified camp and bathhouse at Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert, Mayenne, France, 11 km from Jublains; excavated by the abbé Angot in 1903 and classified a Monument Historique in 1917.

Les Vaux de la Celle

Les Vaux de la Celle (Genainville, Val-d'Oise) is a Gallo-Roman sanctuary and theatre complex in a Vexin dell, with a double-cellae temple to Mercury and Rosmerta, an Iron Age necropolis, and excavations ongoing since 1935.

Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛)

Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛), a 71 m Tang-dynasty stone Buddha carved 713–803 at the Minjiang, Dadu, and Qingyi river confluence in Sichuan; world's largest Buddha, part of the 1996 Mount Emei mixed World Heritage site.

Leśno

Leśno (gmina Brusy, Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship) is a Kashubian village in Bory Tucholskie with the Kamienne Kręgi reserve: a multicultural Bronze Age to Roman-period barrow cemetery of the Wielbark culture with four princely graves.

Lesser Aral Sea and Delta of the Syrdarya River

The Lesser Aral Sea and Delta of the Syrdarya River is a 330,000-hectare Ramsar wetland in Kazakhstan, designated as the country's tenth such site in 2012.

Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark

Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark covers the whole Greek island of Lesvos, designated in 2015, centered on the Miocene Petrified Forest near Sigri, managed by the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest, and a founding Global Geoparks Network member.

Letchworth State Park

Letchworth State Park, the "Grand Canyon of the East," is a 14,427-acre New York state park on the Genesee River with three major waterfalls, 66 miles of trails, and land deeded by William Pryor Letchworth in 1906–1907.

Leuctra tropaion

Leuctra tropaion: the victory trophy the Thebans set up after defeating Sparta at Leuctra in 371 BCE; a white marble monument described by Pausanias, found in pieces by Orlandos at Marmara.

Leuke Akte

Leuke Akte (Λευκὴ ἀκτή, White Cape) was an ancient Egyptian coastal town and commercial harbor at Ras el-Hekma, with an Isis-Aphrodite cult and Apollo oracle; a namesake settlement existed in Thrace.

Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments

Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in eastern Slovakia grouping the Spiš castle, the historic town of Levoča, and nearby villages.

Levuka Historical Port Town

Levuka Historical Port Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Ovalau Island, Fiji. It was the first colonial capital of Fiji, inscribed in 2013.

Lewis Peatlands

Lewis Peatlands (Ramsar UK13028, SPA, SAC) is a vast blanket bog and loch complex on Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, designated 7 December 2000, notable for breeding divers, dunlin, and one of Europe's largest blanket bogs.

Leye Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Leye Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark (乐业-凤山世界地质公园) is a karst geopark in Guangxi, China, spanning Leye and Fengshan counties, with the Dashiwei tiankeng group, 613 m deep sinkholes, giant cave chambers, and the 177 m Buliu Natural Bridge.

Liangzhou Botanical Garden

Liangzhou Botanical Garden (凉州植物园), a garden-style park in Liangzhou District, Wuwei, Gansu, China; also called the Walnut Garden. 65-hectare AAA attraction of century-old walnut and pear trees, tea gardens, and the 128-meter Eye of the Heavenly Horse Ferris wheel.

Libersart

Tumuli de Libersart: two Gallo-Roman burial mounds at Libersart, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert, Walhain, Walloon Brabant, Belgium; excavated 1910-1911, classified 1972, on the Hesbaye tumulus route.

Liberty Park

Liberty Park, Salt Lake City's oldest and second-largest urban park, a roughly 100-acre Utah park dedicated 1882, home to Tracy Aviary and the historic Chase Home, Mill, and Well; distinct from parks of the same name in Spokane, Memphis, and Summit County, Ohio.

Liberty State Park

Liberty State Park, a 1,200-acre New Jersey state park in Jersey City opened June 14, 1976, is the state's only ferry gateway to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, site of the CRRNJ Terminal, and subject of decades-long anti-privatization battles.

library at Nysa on the Maeander

The library at Nysa on the Maeander was a Roman building in Caria, western Anatolia, erected around 130 CE as a library, archive, meeting hall, and courtroom.

Library of Hadrian at Athens

Library of Hadrian at Athens (Βιβλιοθήκη του Αδριανού): monumental rectangular complex built by Emperor Hadrian around AD 132 near the Roman Agora, with library, reading rooms, lecture halls, and garden; damaged in AD 267, later a church and mosque.

Library of Pergamum

Library of Pergamum (Pergamon), royal Attalid library founded by Eumenes II (r. 197-159 BCE) beside the Temple of Athena in Asia Minor; rival of Alexandria, said to hold 200,000 scrolls, linked to parchment production and Crates of Mallos.

Liebenau

Liebenau (Kr. Nienburg/Weser, Lower Saxony) is a middle-Weser town famed for the early Saxon cemetery Liebenau/Steyerberg (4th-9th c.) and an excavated 8th-9th century settlement; distinct from Liebenau in Hesse and Graz-Liebenau.

Liebersee

Liebersee (Gräberfeld von Liebersee) is a polycultural prehistoric and early medieval cemetery near Torgau, Saxony, with about 2,000 graves used from around 1200 BC to around 700 AD across Lausitzer, Iron Age, Germanic, Merovingian, and early Slavic phases.

Light Land Family Recreation Park

Light Land Family Recreation Park (Lightland) is a family light park at Korita–Sjenokosi, about 700 m above Petrovac, Montenegro. A 1 km forest trail with 20,000–30,000 lamps, seven installations, swings, weekend shows; open May–November evenings, closed winter.

Lighthouse at mouth of Oued Chélif

Lighthouse at mouth of Oued Chélif: an ancient lighthouse on Algeria's Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Chélif wadi, attested via Gsell's Atlas archéologique and Barrington Atlas 30 inset 1.

Lilac Garden

The Lilac Garden (Georgian: იასამნების ბაღი), also known as the Syringarium, is a lilac collection in the National Botanical Garden of Georgia in Tbilisi, established in 1970.

Lilla Jored

Lilla Jored, Kville parish, Bohuslän, Sweden: site of a rich Roman Iron Age chieftain's chamber grave (c. AD 300–400) excavated in 1816, with sword, gold rings, ceremonial belt, and a 17 g gold medallion imitating a Roman emperor.

Lillyhorn Roman villa

Lillyhorn Roman villa, also called Bisley or Bournes Green villa, is a scheduled Romano-British winged corridor villa near Bisley-with-Lypiatt, Gloucestershire, with 29 rooms, a bath suite, and an 1840s excavation that yielded a 1,223-coin hoard.

Lilongwe Wildlife Center

Lilongwe Wildlife Center (Lilongwe Wildlife Centre), founded 2007 in Lilongwe, Malawi, is the country's only accredited wildlife sanctuary: 70 ha of riverine forest, about 200 rescued animals, PASA and GFAS accredited, run by Lilongwe Wildlife Trust.

Limbe Botanic Garden

Limbe Botanical Gardens (Victoria Botanic Garden), founded 1892 in Limbe, Cameroon, the first botanic garden in Central and West Africa; 48 ha coastal garden for ex-situ conservation, the 1994 Conservation through Cultivation Programme, herbarium SCA, and the Limbe Wildlife Centre.