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Angel Island (California)
Angel Island is the largest natural island in San Francisco Bay, a California state park that served as the West Coast's main immigrant processing station from 1910 to 1940.
Angel of Independence
The Angel of Independence (Ángel de la Independencia) is a victory column on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, inaugurated in 1910 for the centenary of Mexican independence.
Angeles National Forest
Angeles National Forest: Southern California national forest, first in California (proclaimed 1892 as San Gabriel Timberland Reserve), over 650,000 acres, about one-quarter of Los Angeles County, elevations 1,200–10,064 feet.
Angels Landing
Angels Landing is a sandstone fin in Zion National Park, Utah, with a 5.4-mile chain-assisted hike; permits via seasonal and day-before lotteries have been required since April 2022.
Angkor (អង្គរ)
Angkor (អង្គរ), Cambodia: archaeological site of the Khmer Empire capitals, 9th–15th centuries, with Angkor Wat, the Bayon, a 1,000 km² urban complex, vast hydraulic works, UNESCO listing since 1992.
Angkor Thom (អង្គរធំ)
Angkor Thom (អង្គរធំ, "Great City") is the late 12th-century walled Khmer capital built by Jayavarman VII at Angkor, Cambodia, with the Bayon temple at its center, 12 km of laterite walls, five gates, and a mandala-plan layout.
Anglesey Sea Zoo
Anglesey Sea Zoo (Sw Môr Môn) is an aquarium in Brynsiencyn on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, displaying only native British marine life and running conservation and rescue programs.
Angmering
Angmering Roman villa: a dispersed Romano-British villa 2 km west of Angmering, West Sussex, with a detached bathhouse built around AD 65, dismantled in the 2nd century; scheduled monument and the setting of Salvius' villa in the Cambridge Latin Course.
Anima Heller Garden
Anima Heller Garden, also called the André Heller Garden, is a botanical and sculpture garden in the Ourika Valley near Marrakech, created by Austrian artist André Heller.
Animal City
Animal City (أنيمال سيتي) is a private zoo and refuge in the Nahr el-Kalb valley, Zikrit, Lebanon, opened in 2005 by Samir Ghattas's Gatas Group; Lebanon's largest zoo, criticized over welfare, trafficking, and the Charlie chimpanzee case.
Animal Enclosure
Animal enclosure: the constructed space housing captive animals in zoos and sanctuaries, also called habitat exhibit. Evolved from barred cages to Hagenbeck's moated panoramas and 1970s landscape immersion; design is now judged by welfare evidence and standards.
Animal Kingdom
动物王国 (Animal Kingdom) is a shared name for several animal theme parks: Yinji Animal Kingdom in Zhengzhou (opened 2020, 570,000 m², 3,000+ animals), Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998), Japanese parks like Izu and Kobe, and a 2022 animal-behavior AI dataset.
Animal Park Colfosco
Animal Park Colfosco (Parco Animali Colfosco, Parch di Colfosco) is a free petting zoo in Colfosco, Alta Badia, South Tyrol, with farm animals, a watermill, bread oven, and playground, open daily year-round.
Animal Zone
Animal Zone is a zoo in Haifa District, Israel, near Neve Yam and Atlit on the Mediterranean coast (OSM node 4132470568, tourism=zoo). Distinct from the Tunisian pet store app and Rodbaston Animal Zone in England.
Animal Парк
Animal Парк (Animal Park) names several Eastern European animal attractions: a 50-species contact zoo in Alushta, Crimea, moved from Sevastopol; Kyiv's largest contact zoo at VDNH; a 344-hectare park near Baranovichi, Belarus; and the game Zoo 2: Animal Park.
Animals in War Memorial
Animals in War Memorial, London war memorial at Brook Gate, Park Lane, Hyde Park, by David Backhouse, unveiled 24 November 2004 by the Princess Royal; bronze mules, horse, and dog; inscription "They had no choice"; similar memorials in Ottawa and Canberra.
Animation city
An animation city (动漫城, dongmancheng) is a Chinese venue dedicated to animation: an indoor center of anime shops, arcades, and fan activities, or a larger animation-themed park.
anipo
anipo (ANIPO, アニポ), short for Animal Expo, is a small animal-character-themed amusement zone at EXPOCITY in Suita, Osaka, run by ride maker Toyonaga Sangyo, with four rides: Suisui, Poppo, Pashapush, and Buranburan.
Anjar
Anjar (عنجر, 'Ayn al-Jarr) is a UNESCO World Heritage Umayyad palace-city ruin in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, founded under Caliph Walid I around 705-715, abandoned after 744, with a 385 x 350 m walled grid plan, 40 towers, tetrapylon, palace, and mosque.
Ankon
Ankon (Ἀγκών, Latin Ancon), ancient Pontic harbor and road station on the Black Sea east of Amisus at the mouth of the Yeşilırmak (ancient Iris), Turkey; named from Greek 'elbow'; distinct from Ancona, Italy.
Annamatia
Annamatia (Adnamantia, Anamatia), Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube limes of Pannonia Inferior at Baracs, Fejér County, Hungary; 152 x 76 m, garrisoned by Cohors VII Breucorum and Cohors Thracum Germanicus, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Intercisa and Lussonium.
Annonay
Annonay, commune in north Ardèche, France, at the Cance-Deûme confluence; 16,912 residents (2018); historic paper and leather industrial town of the Montgolfier brothers, first hot-air balloon flight 1783.
Ansignan aqueduct
The Ansignan aqueduct (pont-aqueduc d'Ansignan) is a 170 m, 29-arch bridge-aqueduct over the Agly in Pyrénées-Orientales, France, dated 220-270 CE in its oldest parts, still irrigating land, classified since 1974, and restored under the 2023 Mission patrimoine.
Antalya Zoo
Antalya Zoo (Antalya Doğal Yaşam Parkı) is Antalya Metropolitan Municipality's Category A zoo in Kepez, Turkey, begun in 1989 on 400 dönüm, holding about 1,678 animals of 118 species with two-tier tourist pricing and wildlife rehabilitation.
Anteae
Anteae (Anteis, Antea), a Roman mutatio or horse-relay station in the Draguignan basin, Var, France, named on the Peutinger Table; its exact site, with candidates from Saint-Hermentaire to Lentier, remains unlocated.
Antelope Island
Antelope Island, largest island in Utah's Great Salt Lake, hosts Antelope Island State Park, reached by the Syracuse causeway. Known for its 1893-founded bison herd (550-700 animals), Fielding Garr Ranch, and dark-sky designation.
Anthée
Anthée (Onhaye, Namur, Belgium): the "Grand Bon Dieu" Gallo-Roman villa, largest known in Wallonia, with a 112-room residence, twenty courtyard buildings, about 12 hectares, occupied 1st to early 4th century AD.
Anthropologic reserve
Anthropologic reserve (anthropological reserve), a protected area for indigenous ways of life; IUCN Category VII in the 1978 system, dropped in 1994; examples include Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Talamanca Cabécar Anthropological Reserve.
Antiana
Antiana, also Antianis, a Roman castellum in Pannonia Inferior on the Aquincum-Mursa limes road, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary, identified with Popovac, Croatia, near Baán and Aureus mons.
Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites
Antigua Naval Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites, also Nelson's Dockyard at English Harbour, Antigua: a Georgian British naval dockyard founded 1725, built by enslaved Africans, UNESCO World Heritage inscribed 2016 under criteria (ii) and (iv).