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Many Glacier Hotel
Many Glacier Hotel, a Swiss-style National Historic Landmark resort on Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, built by the Great Northern Railway 1914-15, opened July 4, 1915, then Montana's largest hotel.
Manyo Botanical Garden
Manyo Botanical Garden (萬葉植物園), at Kasuga Taisha in Nara, Japan, opened 1932 as the country's oldest Man'yō botanical garden, displaying about 300 plant species named in the Man'yōshū, founded by scholar Sasaki Nobutsuna.
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003) in Limpopo, South Africa, at the Limpopo-Shashe confluence, preserving remains of the first indigenous Southern African kingdom (900-1300 AD), a gold-and-ivory trading state abandoned after rainfall decline.
Mapungubwe National Park
Mapungubwe National Park, formerly Vhembe Dongola National Park, is a SANParks park in Limpopo, South Africa, at the Limpopo-Shashe confluence, protecting the ruins of the AD 900-1300 Kingdom of Mapungubwe, a 2003 World Heritage Site with the golden rhino finds.
Maqam er-Rab
Maqam er-Rab (مقام الرب), also Beit Jaalouk, is a basalt Roman peripteral temple ruin near Menjez in Akkar, Lebanon, with a Nemesis altar and inscriptions dated 160 to 262 A.D., later converted into a Byzantine church.
Maquoketa Caves State Park
Maquoketa Caves State Park, a Jackson County, Iowa state park near Maquoketa, holds more caves than any other Iowa state park, about 13 including 1,100-foot Dancehall Cave, with six miles of trails, CCC-era structures, and annual winter cave closures for hibernating bats.
Marah
Marah (Hebrew "bitter") is the biblical Exodus station where Moses sweetened undrinkable water (Ex 15:23). Proposed sites include Ain Hawarah and Abu Mureir in Sinai; also a Tabula Peutingeriana station (Pleiades 746778).
Marais Audomarois Aa – Hem – Flandre Biosphere Reserve
UNESCO biosphere reserve in Pas-de-Calais, France, first designated 2013 around the Audomarois marsh and extended in July 2024 to 111 communes as Marais audomarois – Aa – Hem – Flandre, covering the Aa and Hem valleys, a 3,726-hectare cultivated Ramsar marsh, and agroecological and climate-adaptation programs.
Marais De Kaw
Marais de Kaw (Ramsar Site no. 644), a 137,000-hectare tropical wetland in French Guiana, France, designated 8 December 1993; France's largest wetland, home to black caiman and the world's largest agami heron colony.
Marais de la Macta
Marais de la Macta, the Macta Marshes, is a 44,500-hectare brackish flood-plain wetland in northwestern Algeria near Oran, Ramsar Site no. 1059 since 2001, important for wintering waterbirds and rare North African saltmarsh.
Marasà Sud
Marasà Sud is the extra-mural sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii, Calabria: a 7th-century BC U-shaped stoa and tripartite sacello near the port, distinct from the walled Marasà temple 250 m away.
Marble Arch
Marble Arch: John Nash's 1827 Grade I white Carrara-marble triumphal arch, built for Buckingham Palace, moved to Hyde Park's north-east corner in 1851, near Speakers' Corner.
Marble Quarries at Karystos
The Marble Quarries at Karystos, source of the gray-green cipollino marble the Romans called marmor carystium, lie on southern Euboea, Greece, and were imperial property from 17 to 206 AD.
Marble quarry near Simitthus
Ancient marble quarries at Simitthus (Chemtou), Tunisia, source of marmor Numidicum, the yellow giallo antico; worked from Micipsa (148-118 BC) under Numidian then imperial Roman administration by slaves and convicts.
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is a fan-maintained memorial on Queen's Ride, Barnes Common, London, at the sycamore tree where the T. Rex singer died in a car crash on 16 September 1977, now cared for by the T-Rex Action Group.
Marcelle Natureza
Marcelle Natureza, private zoological park in Outeiro de Rei, Lugo, Galicia, Spain, founded 2003 by Gerardo and Loli Guitián. CITES rescue center since 2023, AIZA member, about 2,000 animals of 200 species, AAP primate rescues, EEZA gazelle breeding.
Marcelliago
Marcelliago is the ancient name of a settlement in Gallia Aquitania, Roman Gaul, tentatively identified with the modern village of Marcilhac-sur-Célé in the Lot department, France.
Marchevo
Marchevo is an ancient fortified site in the Balkans, recorded at Barrington Atlas map 21 and in the Pleiades gazetteer, classified as a late-antique fort or tower.
Marco Pedonio
Marco Pedonio, the so-called Villa of M. Pedonius, is a Roman villa site near Tivoli on the old Via Tiburtina, attributed to a Marcus Pedonius only through an inscription reported by Ligorio and judged very uncertain by Ashby.
Marcomons
Marcomons: ancient Gallo-Roman villa site, also Saint-Bonnet-Miremont, commune of La Nouaille, Dordogne, France; attested AD 300-640, cited Barrington Atlas map 14 G3, Pleiades place 138445.
Mardes Mound
Mardes Mound, officially the mound locally known as Burud Kot, is an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Mardes (Nalasopara), Palghar district, Maharashtra, India, identified with the Nalla Sopara Stupa; unrelated to the Cypriot site Mardnes.
Mare aux Hippopotames Biosphere Reserve
Mare aux Hippopotames Biosphere Reserve, Burkina Faso's first UNESCO MAB reserve (1987), a 19,200-ha classified forest and Ramsar site near Bobo-Dioulasso with a hippopotamus lake, gallery forests, and 160 waterfowl species.
Maretarium
Maretarium (Akvaariotalo Maretarium) is a public aquarium in Kotka, Finland, opened 2002, showing over 50 native Finnish fish species in 22 tanks, including a 500,000-liter Baltic Sea tank, using unchlorinated Gulf of Finland water.
Margam Country Park
Margam Country Park near Port Talbot, South Wales: 850-acre Grade I listed parkland with Margam Castle (1830s), 1147 Cistercian abbey ruins, 327-ft Orangery, deer herd, and 2026 Roman villa discovery.
Margerie Glacier
Margerie Glacier is a 21-mile-long tidewater glacier at Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, with a 200-foot ice face, flowing about 6 feet per day, now receding after decades of stability.
Marialba Paleochristian Basilica
Marialba Paleochristian Basilica (Basílica Paleocristiana de Marialba, Iglesia Martirial de Marialba de la Ribera), a 4th-7th century martyr church near León, Spain, excavated by Schlunk and Hauschild; not the Elbasan basilica.
Mariaud
Mariaud (Pleiades ID 167823) is an ancient silver and lead mine site in France, catalogued from Barrington Atlas 17 G5, located at 44.25 N, 6.433336 E, dated 30 BC to AD 640, with no attested ancient name.
Marica (site)
Marica (site): sanctuary of the Italic goddess Marica at the Garigliano (Liris) river mouth near Minturnae, with the Lucus Maricae grove, a 7th-century BC temple, and a votive deposit excavated in 1926.
Marimbault Roman Villa
Marimbault Roman Villa: Gallo-Roman villa under the church and cemetery of Marimbault, Gironde, France; known from 4th-century mosaic fragments (seven, at Musée de Bazas) and wall traces, never fully excavated.
MARINA (site)
Casino Marina (Casino Marina International, Rank Entertainment Holdings) is a casino resort chain headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with nine properties across Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar; distinct from Marina Bay Sands and Marina del Sol.