Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Martyrs' Game City

شاری یاریی شەهیدان (Martyrs' Game City, Arabic مدينة العاب جمجمال) is a theme park in Chamchamal District, Sulemania Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, at 35.519°N 44.813°E, OSM way 612734429; a directory lists it as permanently closed.

Maruhan

Maruhan (株式会社マルハン, MARUHAN Corporation) is Japan's largest pachinko parlor operator, founded 1957 by Chang-Woo Han, with 317 parlors, ¥1.5 trillion sales (FY2026), and banking units in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

Marwedel

Marwedel, near Hitzacker in Lower Saxony, is the site of two or three richly furnished 2nd-century AD Germanic princely graves (Lübsow type) and an associated over-30-hectare settlement with iron working.

Mary King's Close

Mary King's Close is a 17th-century Edinburgh street buried under the City Chambers when the Royal Exchange was built over it in 1753, reopened as The Real Mary King's Close tour attraction in 2003, distinct from the South Bridge vaults.

Masada (מצדה)

Masada (מצדה) is Herod the Great's desert palace-fortress above the Dead Sea, Israel's last stronghold in the 73/74 CE revolt against Rome, besieged by the Tenth Legion; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 whose Josephus-reported mass suicide remains archaeologically debated.

Masamas

Masamas: rural Gallo-Roman sanctuary with twin temples at Saint-Léomer, Vienne, France, over a Gallic sanctuary of the 1st century BC; discovered by abbé Reix around 1945, identified by Eygun in 1964, unusual for lacking an attached settlement.

Masaondi Mound

Masaondi Mound, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh: two ASI centrally protected ancient mound sites, High Khera and Mound of ruins, protected in 1920 under the Sarnath Circle.

Masłomęcz

Masłomęcz, village in Poland's Hrubieszów Basin giving its name to a Gothic (Wielbark) archaeological group of the 2nd–4th centuries CE; 536-grave cemetery excavated 1977–2002, Scandinavian ancestry, Goths' Village museum.

Mass grave

Mass grave: a burial site holding multiple human remains, from epidemics, battles, or concealed crimes. Undefined in international law; defined by the Bournemouth Protocol; investigated through forensic archaeology and protected under IHL.

Massaciuccoli

Massaciuccoli: village in Massarosa, Lucca, Tuscany, on Lake Massaciuccoli, site of a 1st-century AD Roman villa of the Venulei family, a mansio, and the early medieval massa Tagiani fiscal estate.

Massacre Rocks State Park

Massacre Rocks State Park is a 990-acre Idaho state park on the Snake River near American Falls, named for boulders that formed a narrow gap on the Oregon and California Trails.

Massava

Massava (Masava), a Roman vicus and road station in Gallia Lugdunensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Briare and Nevers, identified with Mesve at the Masau-Loire confluence, attested by CIL XIII 2895.

Massif des Bauges UNESCO Global Geopark

Massif des Bauges UNESCO Global Geopark, a French geopark in the northern Alps (European Geopark 2011, UNESCO 2015), with 200 km² of karst feeding Lake Bourget and Lake Annecy.

Mastaba of Ptahshepses at Abusir

Mastaba of Ptahshepses at Abusir, Fifth Dynasty tomb of Vizier Ptahshepses, son-in-law of Nyuserre; largest Old Kingdom non-royal tomb, about 56 x 42 m, excavated by de Morgan 1893 and the Czechoslovak mission 1960–1974.

Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve

Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, RBMA), Brazil's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1991 and expanded in seven phases to 2019; the world's largest biosphere reserve at about 89.7 million hectares across 17 states, covering 66% of the Atlantic Forest biome.

Mata-Jardim José do Canto

Mata-Jardim José do Canto is a landscaped woodland garden on Lagoa das Furnas, São Miguel, Azores, created by José do Canto (1820–1898) with species acclimated at his Ponta Delgada garden; it includes the Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias.

Matarrah

Matarrah (Tell Matarrah) is a prehistoric settlement mound in Kirkuk District, Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq, one of the oldest villages of the Near East, with Hassuna, Ubaid, and Samarra-culture pottery connections, excavated and published by Braidwood in 1952.

Matavo

Matavo (Matavone, Matavonium) was a Roman road station near Cabasse, Var, Provence, on the road from Forum Julii, chief town of the pagus Matavonicus, which issued coins after 27 BC.

Maternum

Maternum (map form Materno), a lost Roman road station in Etruria on the Via Clodia, 12 miles from Tuscana and 18 from Saturnia, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana and the Ravenna geographer; site sought at Farnese, Valentano, or Ischia di Castro.

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, site of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony founded 1899 by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, hosted four building exhibitions (1901-1914) and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021 under criteria (ii) and (iv).

Matibay na Bayan ng Sablayan Biosphere Reserve

Matibay na Bayan ng Sablayan Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve nominated in 2026 over Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, covering Apo Reef, tamaraw forests, 257,838 ha, and 84,898 residents.

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Matjes River Rock Shelter

Matjes River Rock Shelter is a Later Stone Age archaeological site near Keurboomstrand in South Africa's Western Cape, used by San hunter-gatherers from about 12,000 to 2,000 years ago.

Matobo Hills

Matobo Hills, also Matopo or Matopos Hills, a granite cultural landscape south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003 with over 3,000 rock art sites, 500,000 years of occupation, Mwari shrines, and Rhodes's grave.

Matrica

Matrica: Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Százhalombatta, Hungary, on the Danube limes of Pannonia. Timber fort from c. AD 100, stone fort 152 by 155 m under Commodus, garrisoned by coh. milliaria Maurorum equitata; baths still visible.

Matryoshka Park

Matryoshka Park (套娃广场), also called Taowa Square, is a matryoshka-doll-themed tourist complex in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, part of a 5A-level China-Russia border scenic area since 2016.

Matšeng Biosphere Reserve

Matšeng Biosphere Reserve, Lesotho's first UNESCO MAB site (2021), covers 112,033 ha of the Maloti highlands with Tšehlanyane National Park and Bokong Nature Reserve at its core, home to 17,785 people.

Matsumoto Castle (松本城)

Matsumoto Castle, also known as Matsumoto-jō, is a flatland castle in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, whose keep complex is a National Treasure now undergoing a major seismic reinforcement.

Matterhorn Bobsleds

Matterhorn Bobsleds is Disneyland's 1959 twin-track coaster inside a 147-foot, 1/100-scale Matterhorn replica; the world's first tubular steel roller coaster, built by Arrow Development's Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon, featuring the Abominable Snowman since 1978.

Matucaium

Matucaium (Matucaio on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman road station in Noricum, identified as Treibach bei Althofen (Miller) or Stammersdorf (Barrington Atlas 20 B3), attested 30 BC–AD 300.