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Peer Sultan Mound
Peer Sultan Mound (Ancient Mounds, Peer Sultan, N-RJ-54) is an ASI-protected ancient stupa site on the dry Ghaggar bed in Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, with early historical terracottas, decorated bricks, pottery, and coins.
Peipsiveere
Peipsiveere (Peipsiveere looduskaitseala) is Estonia's largest nature reserve, 34,610 ha at the Emajõgi delta on Lake Peipsi; Ramsar site 906 since 1997, Natura 2000 and IBA, rich waterbird and eagle habitat.
Pelargikon wall
Pelargikon (Πελαργικόν, Pelasgikon), the prehistoric fortification of the Acropolis of Athens: a Cyclopean wall about 6 m thick built in the late 13th century B.C., with a slope wall and cursed enclosure known to Thucydides.
Pelendava
Pelendava: Dacian settlement and Roman fort on the Jiu river at modern Craiova, Romania, named on the Tabula Peutingeriana; garrisoned by Numerus Mauritanorum, site identified 2014 at Coșuna Monastery, Mofleni.
Pelham Bay Park
Pelham Bay Park is a public park in the northeastern Bronx on Long Island Sound, at 2,772 acres the largest municipal park in New York City.
Pell City, Alabama
Pell City, Alabama: a St. Clair County city on Interstate 20 and Logan Martin Lake, founded 1890, incorporated 1891, named for George H. Pell; population about 14,320 (2025 estimate), one of two county seats with Ashville.
Pellana (Mycenaean cemetery)
Pellana (Πελλάνα) is a Mycenaean rock-cut tholos cemetery at Spilies near the village of Pellana, Laconia, 25–30 km north of Sparta; in use c. 1500–1200 BC, with a royal Great Tomb over 10 m across, tied by its excavator Spyropoulos to Homeric Lakedaimon.
Pelodes Limen
Pelodes Limen (Πηλώδης λιμήν), "muddy harbour", the ancient Greek name for the harbour and lagoon of Butrint (Buthrotum), Albania, attested by Hecataeus, Strabo, and Ptolemy, and the Palodes of Plutarch's Great Pan story.
Pen Coed-foel Camp
Pen Coed-foel Camp, also Pencoed y Foel Hillfort (NPRN 92243), is an Iron Age hillfort near Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales, a circular fort on a hilltop in the Teifi valley, dated about 800 BC to AD 74.
Pen Llystyn
Pen Llystyn was a Roman auxiliary fort near Bryncir in Gwynedd, north Wales, built around AD 80 and destroyed by gravel quarrying after its discovery in 1957.
Pen-Llwyn fort
Pen-Llwyn fort (NPRN 92323, SAM CD134) is a 2.7-hectare Flavian Roman auxiliary fort at Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales, found as cropmarks in 1976, with triple ditches, turf rampart, wooden buildings, occupied to about AD 125-140.
Pen-y-crug
Pen-y-crug: large oval multivallate Iron Age hillfort on an isolated hill 2 km northwest of Brecon, Powys; four ramparts, 1.92 ha interior, scheduled monument BR063, later a brick and tile works site.
Pen-y-Gaer Roman fort
Pen-y-Gaer Roman fort (near Bwlch, Powys) is a small Flavian auxiliary fort, about 1.2 ha, midway between Brecon Gaer and Abergavenny, occupied c. 80-130 AD with a vicus revealed by 2018 drought aerial photography.
Penang Botanic Gardens
Penang Botanic Gardens (Taman Botani Pulau Pinang), the Waterfall Gardens, is Malaysia's oldest botanic garden, established 1884 by Nathaniel Cantley with first curator Charles Curtis on a former granite quarry at Penang Hill, about 29 hectares with free entry.
Peneda-Gerês National Park
Peneda-Gerês National Park (Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês), created 8 May 1971, is Portugal's only national park, a ~60,000 ha granite mountain area in the far northwest bordering Spain, part of the Gerês-Xurés UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1997.
Penghu Aquarium
Penghu Aquarium (澎湖水族館) is a public aquarium in Qitou, Baisha Township, Penghu, Taiwan, opened 1998, closed 2014–2019, reopened after renovation with a 14-meter undersea tunnel, 152 species, and NT$300 adult admission.
Penglai aquarium
Penglai Polar Ocean World (蓬莱欧乐堡海洋极地世界), a 60,000 m² indoor aquarium opened 2004 in Penglai, Yantai, Shandong; national 4A attraction of Baxian Guohai Tourism Group with polar bears, belugas, dolphins, and 2014 Russian beluga imports; distinct from Penglai Marine Biotech.
Península de Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve
Península de Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 1987 at Cuba's westernmost tip in Pinar del Río, spanning roughly 121,572–156,202 ha of dry forest, mangroves, and Caribbean reefs.
Península Valdés
Península Valdés (Valdés Peninsula), Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999, also a Biosphere Reserve and Ramsar site, famed for southern right whale breeding grounds, elephant seal and sea lion colonies, and shore-stranding orcas.
Penne Locos
Penne Locos, also recorded as Pennolucos, was a Roman road station at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, identified with the modern town of Villeneuve in canton Vaud, Switzerland.
Pennymuir
Pennymuir (Towford): group of four Roman temporary marching camps on Dere Street near the head of Kale Water, Scottish Borders, about 15 miles east of Hawick; Camp A encloses 42 acres; scheduled monument SM1707.
Pentagon Memorial
The Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, honors the 184 people killed when Flight 77 hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman from over 1,100 competition entries, it features 184 stainless-steel benches arranged by victims' ages and was dedicated September 11, 2008.
Penteskouphia
Penteskouphia, site southwest of Acrocorinth near Corinth, source of about 1,000 Archaic votive terracotta plaques (pinakes) dedicated to Poseidon from 1879, famed for depictions of potters, kilns, and workshop scenes.
Penydarren Roman fort
Penydarren Roman fort: Flavian-period Roman auxiliary fort in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, about 2.3 ha with a garrison of at least 500, occupied until around AD 140, now beneath a football stadium.
Peony Garden
A peony garden (牡丹園) is a specialized garden, within a botanical garden, park, or standalone site, devoted to displaying and conserving peonies, a plant known in China as the King of Flowers.
Pepiron villa rustica
Pepiron (Pépiron) villa rustica: a Gallo-Roman farming villa at Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime, France, excavated 1960-1967 by Gabet and David; hypocaust-heated pars urbana with baths, pars rustica, wells, finds in Rochefort museum.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is Paris's largest intra-muros cemetery, opened 1804 on the former Mont-Louis Jesuit estate named for Louis XIV's confessor. 43 hectares, over 3 million visitors yearly, Mur des Fédérés, graves of Morrison, Wilde, Piaf, Proust.
Père Lachaise of Africa (St. George's Cemetery, Cape Town)
St. George's Cemetery is a burial ground in Cape Town, South Africa, known by the nickname "Père Lachaise of Africa", after the famous Parisian cemetery.
Père-Lachaise of the East: notable cemeteries of Southeast Asia
Notable cemeteries of Southeast Asia include Singapore's Bukit Brown with about 100,000 graves, Kuala Lumpur's Kwong Tong, Manila's Paco Park, and the Vietnam-Laos Martyrs' Cemetery.
Pergamon Altar
Pergamon Altar (Great Altar of Zeus), monumental 2nd-century BC Attalid marble altar from Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey, with 113 m Gigantomachy frieze; excavated by Carl Humann, displayed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, closed since 2023, reopening 2027.