Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Mausoleo della Conocchia

Mausoleo della Conocchia, Roman funerary monument on the ancient Via Appia at Curti, Caserta; also called la Conocchia. Superimposed-body tomb, 16.6 m tall, third quarter 1st century BC, restored 1792 under Ferdinando IV.

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is a free-standing above-ground structure housing burial chambers, named for the tomb of King Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus

Mausoleum and Sacred Area of Hecatomnus, also called Uzunyuva, a 4th-century B.C. dynastic tomb in Milas, Turkey, attributed to the Carian satrap Hecatomnus, father of Mausolus; discovered in 2010 after looting and on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2012.

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, tomb of Carian satrap Mausolus (d. 353 BCE) built by Artemisia at Bodrum, Turkey; one of the Seven Wonders, source of the word mausoleum, destroyed by 1522.

Mausoleum Campo Barbarico

Mausoleum Campo Barbarico (Mausoleo di Campo Barbarico, "la Casaccia") is a 2nd-century AD Roman temple-tomb in brick on the Via Latina, Rome, named for the Gothic camp of 537/539, later a hay barn, protected since 1965 and under PNRR restoration.

Mausoleum Hadriani

Mausoleum Hadriani (Hadrian's Mausoleum, Castel Sant'Angelo): Hadrian's dynastic tomb on the Tiber's right bank, completed AD 139, holding urns of Antonine and Severan emperors until Alaric's 410 sack; later papal fortress, prison, and museum.

Mausoleum of Augustus

Mausoleum of Augustus (Mausoleo di Augusto), Rome's largest circular tomb, begun 28 BC in the Campus Martius for the Julio-Claudian dynasty; later a fortress, amphitheater, and concert hall, now under restoration.

Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella

The Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella, also called the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, is a late first-century BCE circular tomb on the Via Appia Antica at Rome's third milestone, later the main tower of the Castrum Caetani, with travertine facing, a bucranium frieze, and studied Roman concrete.

Mausoleum of Clesippus Geganius

Mausoleum of Clesippus Geganius, also Mausoleo di Clesippo: first-century BC Roman tower tomb on the Via Appia at Mesa di Pontinia, attributed to the freedman Clesippus Geganius known from Pliny's candelabrum story and a 2.50 m funerary inscription.

Mausoleum of Diocletian

Mausoleum of Diocletian, Split, Croatia: octagonal 4th-century Roman imperial tomb, now the Cathedral of Saint Domnius (Sveti Duje), with 24-column peripter, 57 m bell tower, and 2023 dome findings.

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Mausoleo di Galla Placidia): small 5th-century cruciform building in Ravenna, traditionally commissioned by empress Galla Placidia after 426 AD, famed for its blue-and-gold Early Christian mosaics; a UNESCO site that never held her tomb.

Mausoleum of Gallienus

Mausoleum of Gallienus (Mausoleo di Gallieno): ruined two-storey domed rotunda at the ninth mile of the Via Appia Antica, Rome, commonly identified as the tomb of Emperor Gallienus (died 268 AD), with an 18-column annular colonnade.

Mausoleum of Helena

Mausoleum of Helena (Mausoleo di Sant'Elena), a circular 4th-century Roman mausoleum on the Via Casilina built by Constantine I for his mother Helena, named Tor Pignattara after amphorae in its dome; her porphyry sarcophagus is in the Vatican Museums.

Mausoleum of Lucilius Peto

The Mausoleum of Lucilius Peto is a large circular Roman tomb on the Via Salaria in Rome, built in the late first century BC by Marcus Lucilius Paetus.

Mausoleum of Lucius Aemilius Lupus

Mausoleum of Lucius Aemilius Lupus, also called the Fabara mausoleum or Casa dels Moros: a 2nd-century AD temple-shaped Roman tomb on the Matarranya River in Zaragoza, Spain, built by Lupus's parents and among Spain's best-preserved Roman monuments.

Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus

Mausoleum of Lucius Munatius Plancus (Mausoleo di Munazio Planco, Torre d'Orlando): large cylindrical Roman tomb after 22 BC on Monte Orlando, Gaeta, 166 m above sea level, with inscription CIL X 6087; tomb of the consul who founded Lyon.

Mausoleum of M. Coelius Vinicianus

Mausoleum of M. Coelius Vinicianus, also called Sepolcro di Viniciano, a mid-first century B.C. drum-shaped Roman tomb at Tusculum near Grottaferrata, built by the Caesarian officer Vinicianus and his wife Opsilia, known from CIL 14.2602.

Mausoleum of Menenius Agrippa

Mausoleum of Menenius Agrippa (Mausoleo di Menenio Agrippa), a 1st-2nd century AD circular Roman tomb on Via Nomentana 627, Rome, named only by proximity to Monte Sacro, distinct from Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa's Campus Martius tomb.

Mausoleum of Quintus Lollius Urbicus

Mausoleum of Quintus Lollius Urbicus, also called Mausoleum of the Lollii, a near-intact circular Roman family tomb at El Héri north of Tiddis, Algeria, built by the Britannia governor Urbicus, drum 10.2 m wide and 5.5 m high.

Mausoleum of Romulus

Mausoleum of Romulus, or Tomb of Romulus, the dynastic mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia Antica in Rome, where his deified young son Romulus (divus Romulus) was buried; a small Pantheon-like building with crypt and quadriporticus.

Mausoleum of the Atilii at Sádaba

Mausoleum of the Atilii (Mausoleo de los Atilios, 'Altar de los Moros'), a Roman sandstone tomb-temple facade near Sádaba, Zaragoza, Spain, built by Atilia Festa for herself, her father, and grandfather; dating disputed between late 1st and 2nd-3rd centuries AD; BIC since 1931.

Mausoleum of the Julii

Mausoleum of the Julii, at Glanum (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France): Roman tower tomb of Les Antiques, with battle reliefs, quadrifrons, and Corinthian tholos; distinct from the Vatican's Tomb of the Julii with its Christ-as-Sol-Invictus mosaic.

Mausoleum of Theodoric

The Mausoleum of Theodoric (Mausoleo di Teodorico) is Theodoric the Great's two-storey, decagonal tomb in Ravenna, built about 520 AD of Istrian stone with a 230-tonne monolithic dome; UNESCO-listed since 1996, his remains removed in 540.

Maximianon

Maximianon (Greek Μαξιμιανόν), the Roman praesidium at Al-Zarqa, Egypt, on the Coptos-Myos Hormos road; a 56 m square schist fort with central well, occupied from Trajan to the Severans, excavated 1994-1995.

Maya Biosphere Reserve

The Maya Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Maya) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Guatemala's Petén region, Central America's largest protected area, created in 1990 and home to Maya archaeological sites.

Mayfair Casino

Mayfair Casino is the name of several unrelated gambling businesses: a licensed British casino operator in London, a land-based casino in Mthatha, South Africa, and a Nairobi club.

Maza-park

MazaPark (МазаПарк) is a Russian indoor amusement park chain founded in 2013 in St. Petersburg, with a Kazan location, known for its single-ticket unlimited-access model, bowling, karting, laser tag, and rollerdrome.

Mazar-e-Quaid

Mazar-e-Quaid (Jinnah Mausoleum, National Mausoleum) is the Karachi tomb of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, designed by Yahya Merchant, built 1960-1970, inaugurated 15 January 1971, managed by QMMB on a 131.71-acre site.

Maze Museum

Maze Museum (메이즈랜드), also Maze Land, is a maze theme park in Gujwa-eup, Jeju, South Korea, opened April 14, 2011, home to the world's longest stone maze (5.3 km) themed on Jeju's Samda: stones, wind, and women.