Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Megaron A at Thermon

Megaron A at Thermon (Thermos), Aetolia: an apsidal prehistoric building, 22 by 6 m with porch, main room, and apse, probably a local ruler's seat; its date and heröon interpretation remain disputed.

Mehrgarh (مہرگڑھ) is a Neolithic-Chalcolithic tell site in the Kachi plain, Balochistan, Pakistan, excavated by the French mission under Jarrige; it holds South Asia's earliest farming evidence, now redated to about 5223-4914 BC.

Meiacarire/*Aquae Frigidae

Meiacarire, Latinized as Aquae Frigidae ("cold waters"), is an ancient road station in Mesopotamia, northwest of Singara and east of Nisibis, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Meidan Emam, Esfahan

Meidan Emam (Persian: میدان امام), also known as Naqsh-e Jahan Square, is a public square in central Esfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas I in the early 17th century.

Mekhmas Entertainment Park

Mekhmas Entertainment Park (Mukhmas Fun Land, مخماس فن لاند) covers amusement facilities in Mekhmas, West Bank: an operating family park with a steel coaster, and a 2020 children's park demolished by Israel in March 2025.

Melaiyur Mound

Melaiyur Mound: archaeological mound at Melaiyur near Kaveripattinam (Poompuhar), Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, with ASI-excavated Buddhist vihara and temple at Pallavaneswaram, brick cells, bronze Buddha, Buddha-pada slab, and the protected Kambarmedu site.

Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca

Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca: a serial Malaysian UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 7 July 2008 under criteria (ii), (iii), and (iv), covering 154.68 ha across two multicultural colonial trading ports 450 km apart.

Melaka Crocodile Farm

Melaka Crocodile Farm (Taman Buaya dan Rekreasi Melaka), a 3.5-hectare crocodile and family recreation park in Ayer Keroh, Melaka, operating since July 1987 with about 100 crocodile species, reptile house, aviary, and Malaysia in Miniature.

Melantias

Melantias (Melantiana), ancient Thracian town near Büyükçekmece lagoon west of Constantinople, paired with Athyras; road station with imperial villa, 102 or 140 stadia from Byzantium; Valens marched from it before Adrianople.

Mélas

Mélas, also spelled Melas, is the name of several ancient rivers in the Barrington Atlas and Pleiades gazetteers, plus a historic quarter of Le Teil, Ardèche, France.

Meldia

Meldia (also Meldi) was a Roman road station on the Naissus-Serdica road, placed near Dragoman in western Bulgaria, attested 30 BC-AD 640, with an excavated limestone road section near the Nišava river.

Melios Zoo

Melios Zoo (Melios Zoo Park) is a private zoo in Agioi Trimithias, Nicosia, Cyprus, owned by Menelaos Menelaou and operating since 2000. Its zoo licence expired in 2017, courts ordered its closure in 2026, and it still operates unlicensed amid animal rehoming delays.

Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia

Melka Kunture and Balchit, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 2024) in Ethiopia's Upper Awash Valley at 2,000–2,200 m, preserves a two-million-year Oldowan-to-Late Stone Age sequence with Homo erectus fossils and the earliest known obsidian use.

Mellat Park (پارک ملت, n3593379060)

Mellat Park (پارک ملت) names major Iranian urban parks: a 34-hectare English-style park on Valiasr Street in north Tehran with a lake, zoo, and 2008 Cineplex, and a 72-hectare park in west Mashhad with Iran's tallest Middle East Ferris wheel.

Mellissurgin

Mellissurgin (Melissirgin, Melissurgis, Greek Μελλισούργοι) was a Roman road station in Mygdonia, Macedonia, on the Via Egnatia between Thessalonica and Apollonia, now placed near Gerakarou, Greece, and known only from the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.

Mellosedum

Mellosedum, a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon), in the Romanche valley, Isère; site debated (Mizoën, Mont-de-Lans, Bourg-d'Oisans). Also a manuscript name of Melun.

Melone del Sodo

Melone del Sodo: two Etruscan burial mounds (Tumuli I and II) at Sodo near Cortona, Tuscany, 6th century BC, with a monumental platform-altar staircase and a 1991 intact goldwork burial.

Melpeia

Melpeia (Μέλπεια), ancient sanctuary of Pan Nomios in the Nomia mountains on Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia/Messenia border, where Pausanias says Pan's pipe melody was first discovered.

Melta

Melta: Roman road station in Lower Moesia, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Dorionibus and Sostra on the Oescus–Philippopolis road, generally placed at Lovech, Bulgaria; terminus of the Melta–Marcianopolis road; not firmly excavated.

Memento mori

Memento mori, Latin for "remember you must die", is an art tradition of skulls, hourglasses, and vanitas symbols reminding viewers of mortality, from Roman mosaics to Hirst.

Memorial Complex of Imam al-Bukhari

The Memorial Complex of Imam al-Bukhari is a pilgrimage and educational complex in Khartang, near Samarkand, Uzbekistan, built at the burial site of the hadith scholar Imam al-Bukhari.

Memorial Farmstead "Lastok"

Мемарыяльная сядзіба «Ласток» (Lastok, Sukhoshchyna), memorial farmstead of Yakub Kolas near the Neman in Stowbtsy district, Belarus; family home 1885–1890, museum branch since 1997 with a Symon-muzyka exposition.

Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero

Serial UNESCO World Heritage property (2023) of four Rwandan genocide memorial sites: Nyamata church, Murambi school, Gisozi/Kigali Genocide Memorial, and Bisesero, commemorating the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Memorial Stadium (Clemson)

Memorial Stadium, known as Death Valley, is Clemson University's football stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. Opened September 19, 1942, honoring Clemson's war dead; capacity 81,500; home of Howard's Rock and the run down The Hill.

Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur: Egyptian UNESCO World Heritage Site (1979) covering ancient capital Memphis and pyramid fields at Giza, Saqqara, Abusir, and Dahshur, with over thirty-eight pyramids.

Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes

Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes: Paris zoo founded 16 May 1794 by the National Convention, second oldest zoo after Schönbrunn (1752), run by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle with about 500 animals of 122 species on 5 hectares.

Ménec alignments

Ménec alignments (Alignements du Ménec), westernmost of the Carnac stone rows in Morbihan, Brittany: about 1,050 Neolithic menhirs in 11 rows over roughly 950 m, with a 70 x 90 m oval enclosure, dated around 4800-3500 BC, a historic monument since 1889 and part of the 2025 UNESCO site.