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Lost Chambers Atlantis
The Lost Chambers Aquarium, the Atlantis-themed aquarium at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai, opened 2008 with 65,000+ animals and 250+ species; renamed The Lost World Aquarium after October 2025 renovation.
Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is Percy Fawcett's name for a rumored Amazonian city he sought on his fatal 1925 expedition with son Jack and Raleigh Rimell. No such city exists, but Upper Xingu sites like Kuhikugu confirm ancient Amazonian urbanism.
Lost World of Tambun
Lost World of Tambun (LWOT), Sunway's theme park and hotel in Tambun, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, opened 2004; 88 attractions across 10 parks, 123 animal species, natural hot springs, night park, and zoo.
Lothal (લોથલ)
Lothal (લોથલ) is an excavated Harappan port town of the Indus Valley Civilization in Gujarat, India, best known for a large brick basin identified as a tidal dockyard.
Lotte World (롯데월드)
Lotte World (롯데월드) is a Lotte Group leisure complex in Jamsil, Seoul, opened July 12, 1989 as Korea's first large-scale indoor theme park, with indoor Adventure, outdoor Magic Island on Seokchon Lake, 35 rides, mall, hotel, and folk museum.
Lotte World Aquarium (South Korea)
Lotte World Aquarium (롯데월드 아쿠아리움), opened October 16, 2014 in Lotte World Mall, Jamsil, Seoul, holds 55,000 animals of 650 species in 13 zones; known for its beluga Bella and stalled release pledge.
LOTTE WORLD Busan
Lotte World Adventure Busan (롯데월드 어드벤처 부산), an outdoor theme park by Lotte World in Busan's Osiria Tourism Complex, opened March 31, 2022. Six zones, 17 rides, Giant Digger coaster, designed by Legacy Entertainment.
LOTTE WORLD KIDS PARK
LOTTE WORLD KIDS PARK (롯데월드 키즈파크) is Lotte World's indoor children-only theme park in Lotte Mall Eunpyeong, Seoul, opened December 22, 2016; about 6,600 m², undersea-kingdom themed, with 12 attractions, distinct from Jamsil's Lotte World Adventure.
Loubetsi-Nyanga
Loubetsi-Nyanga, Ramsar Site no. 2221, is a 251,151-hectare wetland of international importance in Niari, Republic of the Congo, designated 2 February 2015, a biological reserve sheltering forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, and critically endangered slender-snouted crocodiles.
Loudoun Hill
Loudoun Hill is a trachyte volcanic plug near Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland, site of Robert the Bruce's victory over Aymer de Valence on 10 May 1307 and a doubtful 1296 Wallace engagement.
Loughcrew (Megalithic Landscape)
Loughcrew, also called Slieve na Calliagh or Sliabh na Callaigh (Hills of the Witch), is a Neolithic passage tomb cemetery of about 30 tombs on hilltops near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, known for Cairn T's equinox alignment, megalithic art, and Conwell's 1863 investigations.
Loughton Camp
Loughton Camp: Iron Age slight univallate hillfort in Great Monk Wood, Epping Forest, Essex, built around 500 BC, single bank and ditch enclosing about 4.5 ha, scheduled monument 1013518, companion to Ambresbury Banks.
Loutra Hypatis Early Christian basilica and bath
Loutra Hypatis Early Christian basilica and bath (Λουτρά Υπάτης): excavated site at Varka hamlet, Phthiotida, Greece, pairing a mid-4th-century Roman bath with a three-aisled paleochristian basilica whose mosaics come from the Klapsi workshop.
Low Borrowbridge
Low Borrowbridge: Roman fort and vicus on a River Lune spur about 2 miles south of Tebay, Cumbria; scheduled monument 1007240, ~140m by 105m, on Margary road 7c guarding the Lune Gorge.
Low Ham
Low Ham Roman villa, High Ham, Somerset: large 4th-century courtyard villa near Langport, over 70 rooms and 5,000 m2, famous for its Dido and Aeneas mosaic, excavated 1946-48 and 2018.
Lower Church at Banganarti
Lower Church at Banganarti, Sudan: sequence of three churches (LCH1-3) beneath the Upper Church (Raphaelion), built from the late 6th/7th century, a Makurian pilgrimage site with healing tombs, leveled circa 1070 AD.
Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands
Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands (LKSW), Ramsar site 1849 in Sabah, Malaysia: 78,803 ha of mangrove and peat swamp forest, Sabah's first and Malaysia's largest Ramsar site, designated 2008, home to ten primate species and Borneo pygmy elephants.
Lower Valley of the Awash
Lower Valley of the Awash: Ethiopian UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 1980, criteria ii, iii, iv) in the Afar Depression, 300 km northeast of Addis Ababa; paleoanthropological site of Hadar where Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old) was found in 1974.
Lower Valley of the Omo
Lower Valley of the Omo: UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1980, criteria iii and iv) in south-western Ethiopia near Lake Turkana, a 165 km2 Plio-Pleistocene fossil region with the Shungura, Usno, Kibish, and Fejej formations, hominid fossils including Homo gracilis, and ongoing Kuraz sugar project conservation concerns.
Lower Warbank Roman Villa
Lower Warbank Roman Villa, Keston, Bromley: a Romano-British villa over an Iron Age farmstead on Holwood Hill's slopes, excavated 1828-1978, scheduled monument 1002024, with a Saxon weaving hut in its ruins.
Lubana wetland complex
Lubana wetland complex (Lubāna mitrājs), Ramsar Site 1384 in Latvia, designated 2003, 51,351 ha; Latvia's largest wetland around Lake Lubāns, with 224 bird species, 22 EU habitats, and Natura 2000 status.
Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark
Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc du Luberon), Provence, France: UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015 (geopark network member since 2004) and Luberon-Lure Biosphere Reserve; 195,000 ha, Oligocene fossils, Aptian stratotype, ochre deposits.
Lubieszewo
Lubieszewo (Lübsow, Sandberg), village in Gryfice county, Poland; eponymous site of the Lübsow group of 1st–2nd century AD Germanic princely barrow graves with Roman imports, excavated by Eggers and Wołągiewicz.
Lubombo Biosphere Reserve
Lubombo Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Eswatini's Lubombo region within the tri-country Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area (Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa), part of the Maputaland biodiversity hotspot; hosts a UNESCO water education project (2026-2027).
Luciacus
Luciacus: ancient place name in Gaul, Barrington Atlas Map 14 grid G3, tentatively identified with Dussac (Lanouaille), France; Late Roman period; also a second entry at 14 G1.
Lucio Vero
Lucio Vero (Lucius Aurelius Verus), co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius 161-169 AD; his famous Villa di Lucio Vero on the via Clodia at Acquatraversa, Rome, with glass opus sectile, mosaics, and imperial busts.
Lucone di Polpenazze
Lucone di Polpenazze (IT-LM-05) is an Early Bronze Age pile-dwelling site in a former lake basin at Polpenazze del Garda, Brescia, Italy; UNESCO-listed since 2011. Site D, excavated since 2007 by the Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, is dendrochronologically dated 2034–1967 cal BC and yielded enigmatic tablets.
Lucos
Lucos, an unlocated Roman statio on the Via Herculia near Potentia in southern Italy, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Pisandes and Potentia; proposed as the Mefitis sanctuary at Rossano di Vaglio; distinct from Lucus Asturum in Spain.
Lucus Feroniae (site)
Lucus Feroniae, sanctuary of the goddess Feronia in Capena's territory near Soracte, 18 km north of Rome; identified in 1952-53, sacked by Hannibal in 211 BC, later the colony Colonia Iulia Felix Lucoferonensis.
Lucus Furrinae
Lucus Furrinae, a sacred grove of the goddess Furrina on the Janiculum in Rome, now partly under Villa Sciarra; site of Gaius Gracchus's death in 121 BC and later a Syrian sanctuary.