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Liviana
Liviana, also read Liuiana, names two ancient places in the Tabula Peutingeriana: a road station in Gallia Narbonensis near Capendu or Douzens, France, and an unlocated Numidian place about 13 miles east of Thamugadi.
Living Coast Biosphere Reserve
The Living Coast Biosphere Reserve, formally the Brighton and Lewes Downs Biosphere Reserve, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve on England's Sussex coast, designated in 2014.
Living Plant Museum
Living plant museum: term for botanical gardens, arboreta, and conservatories displaying curated living plant collections; examples include the U.S. Botanic Garden (est. 1820), UCR Botanic Gardens, Nepal's National Botanical Garden, and Chulalongkorn University's Living Plant Museum.
Lizards Land
Lizards Land (لیزاردلند) is a small reptile zoo in the Fahadan district of Yazd, Iran, housed in a restored historic Persian house with over 20 species including lizards, snakes, and scorpions.
Ljubljana Botanical Garden
The Ljubljana Botanical Garden (Botanični vrt Univerze v Ljubljani) is a botanical garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded in 1810 under French rule and holding over 4,500 plant species.
Llandough
Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales: multi-period site with an Iron Age farmstead, a 2nd-4th century Roman villa with hypocaust and bath suite, and the largest early medieval cemetery excavated in Wales.
Llantwit Major
Llantwit Major, Welsh Llanilltud Fawr, is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan in southern Wales, named as the site of Saint Illtud's principal 5th-century church.
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a 1,550 km² protected area on Gabon's Atlantic coast, created in 2002, where rainforest, lagoons, and ocean beach meet in one landscape.
Lochleven Castle
Lochleven Castle is a ruined medieval castle on an island in Loch Leven, Scotland, best known as the prison of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567–8.
Lochmaben Stone
Lochmaben Stone, also Clochmabenstane, a glacial erratic standing stone near Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; possible remnant of a nine-stone circle, identified with Locus Maponi, and a medieval Anglo-Scottish border meeting place.
Lockleys
Lockleys Roman villa, near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England; also Lockleys estate site. Romano-British cottage villa over an Iron Age settlement, occupied from the first to the late fourth century AD, excavated 1936-37, scheduled monument 1015581.
Locmariaquer megaliths
Locmariaquer megaliths: Neolithic monument group in Morbihan, Brittany, France, comprising the Grand Menhir brisé (20.6 m, 280 t), the Table des Marchands passage grave, and the Er Grah tumulus, built 4700-3800 BC.
Locoteiacus
Locoteiacus (Locoteiacum) is the Gallo-Roman site at Ligugé near Poitiers where Martin of Tours founded in 361 the oldest known monastery in Gaul, now the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé.
Lodge Farm Roman villa
Lodge Farm Roman villa, North Warnborough, Odiham, Hampshire: a Romano-British villa with a substantial bathhouse, excavated by Dorothy Liddell in 1929-30, occupied mid-3rd to late-4th centuries CE; distinct from villas at Lodge Hill Farm, Bucks, and Ditchley, Oxon.
Lodi Gardens
Lodi Gardens (Lodhi Garden), New Delhi: 90-acre park inaugurated 1936 as Lady Willingdon Park, renamed after 1947; holds Sayyid and Lodi tombs including Muhammad Shah's 1444 tomb and Sikandar Lodi's tomb; redesigned 1968 by Joseph Allen Stein.
Loggerhead Key
Loggerhead Key: largest island of Dry Tortugas National Park, 3 miles from Garden Key, home to the 157-foot Dry Tortugas Lighthouse (1858) and the Carnegie marine laboratory (1904-1939), day use only.
Loki-Schmidt-Garten
Loki-Schmidt-Garten, formerly Neuer Botanischer Garten Klein Flottbek, is the 24-hectare botanical garden of the University of Hamburg, opened 1979, renamed 2012 for botanist Loki Schmidt, with about 500,000 annual visitors.
Lola ya Bonobo
Bonobo Wildlife Station is Lola ya Bonobo, the world's only bonobo sanctuary, near Kinshasa, DRC. Founded by Claudine André, it rescues orphaned bonobos, rehabilitates them with surrogate mothers, and releases them at Ekolo ya Bonobo reserve.
Lolli Paolini
Lolli Paolini (Villa dei Lolli Paolini) is an archaeological site of Roman villa remains on the Colli di Santo Stefano at Tivoli, Italy, immediately south of Hadrian's Villa.
London and North Western Railway War Memorial
Grade II-listed 1921 war memorial at Euston, London, also called the LNWR and LMSR Memorial, honoring 3,719 London and North Western Railway men who died in the Great War; designed by Reginald Wynn Owen, unveiled by Earl Haig.
London Mithraeum
London Mithraeum, or Walbrook Temple of Mithras: Roman mithraeum built c. 240 CE in the City of London, discovered 1954, moved 1962, and redisplayed free beneath Bloomberg's headquarters in 2017.
London Wall
London Wall: the Roman defensive circuit built around Londinium from about AD 200, roughly 2.5 miles long with four gates, later medieval city wall; sections survive at Tower Hill and Cooper's Row.
Londoner Grand Casino
Londoner Grand Casino, at The Londoner Macao (formerly Sands Cotai Central), Cotai, Macao; Sands China casino opened September 26, 2024 in the former Pacifica casino space, with smart baccarat tables, a May 2026 high-limit zone, and lower minimums than the sister Londoner Casino.
Long Bridge
Long Bridge is the name of several historic bridges, chiefly the Grade I listed 16-arch medieval bridge over the River Taw at Barnstaple, Devon, plus bridges at Bideford, Coggeshall, Llanidloes, and the Potomac rail crossing in Washington, DC.
Long Feng Xuan Casino
Long Feng Xuan Casino (龙凤轩娱乐城) is a licensed casino in Sangkat Bei, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, run by Long Feng Xuan Co., Ltd.; licensed December 2022 and identified by Amnesty International as scamming compound SI20.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a large Late Neolithic stone circle near Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England: 69 stones in a 109 by 94 m oval, an outlier monolith with cup-and-ring art aligned on midwinter sunset, plus a cursus and enclosure.
Long Mound
Long Mound, Bairant: a centrally protected archaeological mound at Bairant village, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, protected by ASI in 1920, part of the extensive ancient fortified site on the Ban Ganga.
Long-Horned Antelope
Long-horned antelope is a descriptive name for antelope with very long horns, chiefly the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) of the Sahara, also applied to the saola, nilgai, and eland.
Longaticum
Longaticum: Roman mansio (roadside station) on the Aquileia–Emona road, at present-day Logatec, Slovenia; attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary, later part of the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum, abandoned around the 5th century.
Longhushan UNESCO Global Geopark
Longhushan UNESCO Global Geopark (龙虎山) is a nearly 1,000-square-kilometer protected area in Jiangxi Province, China, designated by UNESCO in 2015 and known as the cradle of Taoism.