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Monument to the Great Fire of London
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, a 202-foot Doric Portland stone column built 1671-1677 by Hooke and Wren, commemorates the 1666 fire; 311 steps lead to a viewing platform.
Monument to the Sun
Monument to the Sun (Pozdrav Suncu, Greeting to the Sun), a 2008 solar-powered light installation by Nikola Bašić on Zadar's waterfront: a 22 m circle of 300 glass plates beside the Sea Organ.
Monumental complex of Sant'Ilario a Port' Aurea
Monumental complex of Sant'Ilario a Port' Aurea, Benevento: a Lombard-era church (late 7th-8th century) with two domes, beside the Arch of Trajan (Porta Aurea), with an attached Benedictine monastery, excavated 2000-2002 and now housing the Museo dell'Arco.
Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex
The Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex is a large public building of the mid-third century BC at Gabii, an ancient Latin city about 20 km east of Rome.
Monumento a la Revolución
Monumento a la Revolución, Mexico City Art Deco mausoleum built 1933-1938 by Carlos Obregón Santacilia inside the unfinished dome of Émile Bénard's Palacio Legislativo; 67 m tall, holds remains of Madero, Carranza, Calles, Cárdenas, and Villa.
Monuments and memorials to William Shakespeare
Monuments and memorials to William Shakespeare are statues, memorial buildings, and commemorative sites honoring the playwright worldwide, beginning with the 1741 statue in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
The Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias are six 9th-century pre-Romanesque monuments in and around Oviedo, Spain, inscribed by UNESCO in 1985 and extended in 1998.
Monumentum Regiae Gentis
Monumentum regiae gentis is Pomponius Mela's first-century name for the Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania, also called the Tombeau de la Chrétienne, a large cylindrical royal tomb near Tipaza, Algeria.
Monviso Biosphere Reserve
Monviso Biosphere Reserve (Area della Biosfera del Monviso), UNESCO MAB site designated 2013, Italy's first transboundary biosphere reserve with France; 293,916 ha, 450–3,841 m, Alevè pine forest, Po headwaters.
Mooghaun Ringfort
Mooghaun Ringfort, also Mooghaun Hillfort (Múchán), a trivallate Late Bronze Age hillfort near Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland; largest hillfort in Ireland, built c. 950 BC, with the 1854 Mooghaun gold hoard found nearby.
Moomin World
Moomin World (Finnish: Muumimaailma) is a story-driven theme park on Kailo island in Naantali, Finland, built around Tove Jansson's Moomin characters. Opened in 1993, it has no mechanical rides.
Moominvalley Park
Moominvalley Park (ムーミンバレーパーク) is a Moomin theme park in Hanno, Saitama, Japan, opened March 2019 as the world's second Moomin park and first outside Finland, operated by Moomin Monogatari within the Metsä complex.
Moonlight Hall
Moonlight Hall is the shared name of multiple venues: wedding halls in Jeddah, Damascus, Makkah, and Rabigh; a casino in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq; a 1936 public hall site in Wiluna, Australia; and function rooms in Bangkok, Huế, and Chennai.
Moorea Dolphin Center
Moorea Dolphin Center, a dolphinarium at Haapiti lagoon, Moorea, French Polynesia, opened 1994 as Dolphin Quest French Polynesia; ended dolphin interactions December 31, 2025, becoming the Moana Ora sanctuary caring for Kuokoa.
Moos
Moos is a municipality in Lower Bavaria, Germany, near the Isar-Danube confluence, with a Neolithic ditched enclosure, the Roman fort Moos-Burgstall (c. 80–120 AD), and Schloss Moos, held by the Preysing family 1568–1940.
Mora Mound
Mora Mound: ancient protected archaeological site near Mora village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh (मोरा), about 11 km west of Mathura. Excavated 1911-12; yielded the Mora well inscription and earliest evidence of the five Vrishni heroes' worship.
Moran State Park
Moran State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Washington state park on Orcas Island, created from Robert Moran's 1921 donation of about 2,700 acres, featuring 2,407-foot Mount Constitution, five lakes, CCC-built stone tower, and forested campgrounds.
Moravian Church Settlements
Moravian Church Settlements: UNESCO transnational serial World Heritage site of four 18th-century Moravian congregation towns, Christiansfeld (Denmark, 2015), Herrnhut, Gracehill, and Bethlehem (2024 extension), under criteria (iii) and (iv).
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is a sand island 40 km from Brisbane, the world's third largest sand island, mostly Gheebulum Kunungai National Park, jointly managed with Quandamooka people, home to the Tangalooma Wrecks.
Mormon Row Historic District
Mormon Row Historic District, also called Grovont, is a National Register-listed cluster of Mormon homesteads east of Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, settled in the 1890s and known for the Moulton barns.
Morningside Park (Manhattan)
Morningside Park, Manhattan: Olmsted and Vaux hillside park between Morningside Heights and Harlem, 110th to 123rd Streets, about 30 acres, NYC Scenic Landmark, site of the abandoned 1968 Columbia gym.
Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve
Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 2002 near Melbourne, Victoria; one of five in Australia; 214,048 hectares around Western Port Ramsar wetland, overseen by the Western Port Biosphere Foundation.
Morris Arboretum
Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden and educational institution of the University of Pennsylvania in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, opened to the public in 1933.
Morrocoy National Park
Morrocoy National Park (Parque Nacional Morrocoy) is a marine and coastal national park in Falcón state, Venezuela, created in 1974 and known for beaches and snorkeling.
Morton National Park
Morton National Park, NSW, Australia: large national park gazetted 1967, successor to the 1938 Morton Primitive Reserve; sandstone plateaus, gorges, Fitzroy Falls, Bundanoon, Budawangs wilderness, Pigeon House Mountain (Didthul).
Mortsafe
Mortsafe: an iron cage or iron-and-stone case placed over a Scottish grave for about six weeks after burial to stop resurrectionists selling corpses to anatomy schools; obsolete after the 1832 Anatomy Act.
Mortuary temple of Thutmose IV
Funerary temple of Thutmose IV, also called Mortuary Temple of Thutmose IV, a small mud-brick temple of millions of years at Gurna, West Bank Thebes, explored by Petrie 1896 and excavated by the University of Pisa 1973-1981.
Moselle Sud Biosphere Reserve
Moselle Sud Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère de Moselle Sud), UNESCO-designated 15 September 2021 as France's 15th biosphere reserve; 139,257 ha, 76,609 inhabitants, 138 communes on the Lorraine Vosges slopes, with the Ramsar Étang de Lindre, about 130 ponds and saline Seille headwaters.
Mosphiloudia
Mosphiloudia (Μοσφιλοϋδια), ancient Cypriot place at Barrington Atlas 72 D3, southwest of Xylofagou, Larnaca district; Hellenistic-Roman site known for its ancient quarry with unfinished abandoned statues (Karageorghis 1969).
Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (Mezquita-Catedral), begun in 786 as the Umayyad Great Mosque and converted to a cathedral in 1236, is a UNESCO World Heritage hypostyle monument with double horseshoe arches and a Byzantine-mosaic mihrab.