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Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis)
Minnehaha Park, also known as Minnehaha Regional Park, is a 167-acre Minneapolis park established in 1889 around Minnehaha Falls, a 53-foot waterfall on Minnehaha Creek.
Minneopa State Park
Minneopa State Park: Minnesota state park five miles west of Mankato, established 1905 (third oldest), known for Minneopa Creek's double waterfall, a drive-through bison range of the Minnesota Bison Conservation Herd, and the 1864 Seppmann Mill.
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: University of Minnesota public garden and horticultural research facility near Chanhassen/Chaska, established 1958, 1,200 acres, about 700,000 annual visitors, known for cold-hardy plant breeding including Honeycrisp.
Minnesota State Capitol
Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul's third statehouse, is a Renaissance Revival building designed by Cass Gilbert, opened January 2, 1905, with a self-supporting Georgia marble dome, the gilded Quadriga, and a $310 million 2013–2017 restoration.
Minnodunum
Minnodunum (Minodum), Roman vicus at Moudon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in the civitas of the Helvetii on the Lousonna-Aventicum road; known from the Antonine Itinerary, Tabula Peutingeriana, and a 1732 altar recording a 750-denarius endowment.
Minoan Palatial Centres
Minoan Palatial Centres, a UNESCO serial World Heritage property inscribed in 2025, comprises six Bronze Age sites on Crete (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos, Kydonia), administrative, economic, and religious hubs of Minoan civilization dating 1900-1100 BCE.
Minor Acropolis, Norba
Minor Acropolis (Acropoli Minore), Norba: the smaller of two sacred hills in the ancient Latin city of Norba, Lazio, Italy, with two temple podia of about 490 BC, a tholos cistern, Etruscan archaic finds, and domus at its foot.
Minori
Minori (ancient Rheginna Minor) is an Amalfi Coast town in Salerno province, Italy, home to the Villa romana e Antiquarium, a well-preserved 1st-century-AD Roman maritime villa with triclinium-nymphaeum, closed for restoration since August 2025.
Mir Castle Complex
Mir Castle Complex (Мірскі замак) is a Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque fortified brick castle in Mir, Grodno Province, Belarus, begun by the Ilyinich family and completed by the Radziwills; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, criteria ii and iv.
Miralpeix
Miralpeix names several Spanish heritage sites: a 2nd-3rd century Roman sepulcro-templo mausoleum moved to Caspe in 1962, a ruined medieval castle near Sitges documented from 1057, and a hamlet with a hermitage near Capella.
Mirror Maze on Petřín Hill
Mirror Maze on Petřín Hill (Zrcadlové bludiště na Petříně), a Prague mirror labyrinth and 1648 battle diorama in an 1891 Czech Tourists Club pavilion, opened as a maze in 1893 with 35 regular and 14 distorting mirrors.
Miskin
Miskin, Glamorgan: a historic hundred and village near Pontyclun in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, known for the scheduled Miskin (Caergwanaf) Roman Flavian auxiliary fort with its 10,000-tonne iron slag dump, and for Grade II listed Miskin Manor, now a hotel.
Miskolc Zoo
Miskolc Zoo (Miskolci Állatkert), also called Miskolc Zoo and Cultural Park, is a Hungarian zoo in Miskolc's Csanyik Valley, opened 20 August 1983 on the site of a 1355 royal game preserve, holding about 700 animals of nearly 130 species in a 21-hectare forest.
Misquamicut State Beach
Misquamicut State Beach, in Westerly, Rhode Island, is the state's most popular and most visited state beach, with over a half mile of Atlantic beachfront. Opened in 1959 after hurricanes destroyed private development, it charges higher fees than other RI state beaches and draws about 70% non-resident visitors.
Mission 66
Mission 66 (1956–1966) was the National Park Service's largest construction program, a roughly $1 billion, ten-year effort led by Director Conrad Wirth that created the visitor center concept, Park Service Modern architecture, and about 100 visitor centers.
Mistelbach an der Zaya
Mistelbach an der Zaya is the district seat of the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria's Weinviertel, on the Mistel stream near the Zaya. Known for its 1200 Karner, 1874 city charter, Jewish cemetery, and a 2019 hoard of 5,096 medieval silver coins.
Mithraeum at Fertőrákos
Roman sanctuary of Mithras at Fertőrákos, Hungary, near Sopron (Scarbantia) and Lake Neusiedl; built by Carnuntum legionaries in the early 3rd century AD, rock-cut tauroctony, found 1866, restored 1992 after Iron Curtain closure.
Mithraeum at Mundelsheim
Roman Mithraeum (Mithräum von Mundelsheim) on the Ottmarsheimer Höhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, found 1989; 17.6 × 7.2 m, in use 2nd to early 3rd century, with back-lit Sol and Luna altars and bone deposits.
Mithraeum at Riegel
Mithraeum at Riegel: Roman sanctuary of Mithras at Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Germany, built in the second half of the 2nd century AD, excavated 1974; known for its bent ceremonial sword, red sandstone altar, and stacked tablewares.
Mithraeum at Segontium
Mithraeum at Segontium, a Mithras temple at Caernarfon, Wales, 150 m east of Segontium Roman fort; discovered 1958, excavated 1959 by G.C. Boon; built c. AD 200, three 3rd-century phases, burnt in the later 4th century.
Mithraeum at Vulci
Mithraeum at Vulci: Roman sanctuary of Mithras found in 1975 in a domus beside the Domus del Criptoportico at Vulci, Italy; two rooms, two marble tauroctony reliefs, studied in Nicola Luciani's 2023 monograph.
Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander
Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander (Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro), an early 3rd-century Mithras sanctuary at Ostia (I,III,5), named for pater Caius Lucretius Menander, honored by Diocles' altar dedication with a crescent-shaped lamp opening.
Mitla
Mitla (Zapotec Lyobáa, from Nahuatl Mictlán, 'place of the dead') is a Zapotec archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, famed for mortarless geometric stone mosaics, monolithic-column palaces, and tombs; it flourished after Monte Albán's fall, peaking around 1200 CE.
Mixcoac
Mixcoac is a small INAH archaeological zone in Benito Juárez, Mexico City, a Mexica-era (900-1521 CE) ceremonial center with a pyramid to the cloud-serpent god Mixcoatl, free to visit, opened to the public in 2019.
Miyajima Public Aquarium
Miyajima Public Aquarium (宮島水族館, Miyajimarine) is a public aquarium on Miyajima island, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, focused on Seto Inland Sea life: 380 species, finless porpoises, a 2011 PFI rebuild, and world-first third-generation finless porpoise breeding.
Miyakojima Marine Park
Miyakojima Marine Park (宮古島海中公園, Miyako Island Underwater Park) is an underwater observation facility in Karimata, Hirara, Miyakojima, Okinawa, opened in 2011, with 24 acrylic windows at about 4 m depth viewing wild tropical fish, octopuses, sea snakes, and occasional turtles.
Mnajdra
Mnajdra is a megalithic temple complex of three buildings on Malta's rugged southern coast, built in the fourth and third millennia BC and inscribed by UNESCO in 1992.
Moana Hotel
Moana Hotel, the "First Lady of Waikiki," opened March 11, 1901 as Waikiki Beach's first hotel; now the Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa, a National Register-listed 791-room resort owned by Kyo-Ya.
Moat of Lochrutton
Moat of Lochrutton: large earthwork north of Lochfoot, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, long called a moat or motte but now catalogued as a scheduled Roman fortlet (Canmore 65020), with prehistoric stray finds and nearby Roman camps.
Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939
Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939, a UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2023, criterion iv) in Naujamiestis and Žaliakalnis, Kaunas, Lithuania: about 1,500 of 6,000 surviving interwar modernist buildings across 455.3 ha of the former provisional capital.