9,860 articles
Rochemaure milestone
Rochemaure milestone (borne milliaire de Rochemaure), a Gallo-Roman milestone of Antoninus Pius (c. 145 AD) from the voie des Helviens near Nîmes-Valence, marking 9,000 paces; original in Notre-Dame-des-Anges chapel, copy at the mairie, classified 1903.
Rochester Castle (United Kingdom)
Rochester Castle, Kent: Norman castle founded after 1066, rebuilt in stone by Bishop Gundulf in the 1080s, with a 38-metre keep begun after 1127 and famous for King John's 1215 siege.
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith was an enclosed Vekoma LSM launched coaster at Disney's Hollywood Studios, opened July 29, 1999: 0-57 mph in 2.8 seconds, three inversions, limo trains with Aerosmith soundtracks; rethemed to The Muppets in 2026.
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia, a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2015 (criteria i, iii), comprises Jabal Umm Sinman at Jubbah and Jabal al-Manjor/Raat at Shuwaymis, petroglyphs and inscriptions spanning almost 10,000 years.
Rock Art of Alta
Rock Art of Alta: prehistoric petroglyphs and paintings at the head of Alta Fjord, Arctic Norway, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985; over 7,000 hunter-gatherer figures made c. 5300 BC to AD 100, dated by shoreline displacement.
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, also called Levantine art, is a 1998 UNESCO serial World Heritage Site of 758 prehistoric painted shelters across six Spanish autonomous communities, the largest rock-art group in Europe, dated roughly c. 8000–3500 BC.
Rock Carvings in Tanum (Sweden)
Rock Carvings in Tanum (Hällristningsområdet Tanum), a Swedish UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 in northern Bohuslän, preserves over 600 Bronze Age granite rock-carving sites, c. 1700–500 BC, with ships, humans, animals, and cult scenes.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (UNESCO site 94, inscribed 1979, first Italian World Heritage site): prehistoric petroglyphs in Lombardy's Camonica valley, over 140,000 figures carved over 8,000 years on Permian sandstone, discovered in 1909 by Walther Laeng.
Rock Garden of Chandigarh
Rock Garden of Chandigarh (Nek Chand's Rock Garden): a 25–40 acre sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, built from waste materials in secret by road inspector Nek Chand, inaugurated 1976, now a major heritage tourist site.
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (site)
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Chelbacheb), Palau's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (2012, mixed), a 100,200 ha Koror State marine protected area of 445 limestone islands, 52 marine lakes, and abandoned stonework villages.
Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau
Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau (underground mosques of Beket-Ata, Shopan-Ata, Karaman-Ata, Shakpak-Ata, Sultan-Epe) are five Sufi rock-cut sacred complexes with necropolises on Kazakhstan's Mangystau Peninsula, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026 under criteria (ii) and (iii).
Rock of Cashel
Rock of Cashel (Carraig Phádraig, Caiseal): limestone outcrop in County Tipperary, Ireland, seat of the kings of Munster, granted to the church in 1101, home of Cormac's Chapel with Ireland's only surviving Romanesque frescoes.
Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) Cave, Bashkortostan, Russia: Upper Palaeolithic ochre art of mammoths, horses, and Kapova trapezoids, dated 20,600-16,500 cal BP, UNESCO-inscribed 2025.
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco: UNESCO World Heritage site (1993) in Baja California Sur, Mexico, home to Great Mural style rock art; over 400 sites, realistic human and animal figures in red, black, white, and yellow pigments.
Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela are eleven medieval monolithic churches in northern Ethiopia, carved from volcanic rock and attributed by tradition to King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.
Rockbourne
Rockbourne Roman Villa, a Roman courtyard villa at West Park near Rockbourne, Hampshire, discovered in 1942, excavated by A. T. Morley Hewitt, largest known villa in its area, with a 1967 hoard of 7,714 coins.
Rockcliffe Park
Rockcliffe Park is a historic residential neighbourhood northeast of downtown Ottawa, laid out in 1864 by Thomas Keefer on Thomas MacKay's estate, a Heritage Conservation District since 1997 and a National Historic Site since 2023.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park, established January 26, 1915 in north-central Colorado, spans 415 square miles from 7,840 to 14,259 feet, with alpine tundra, Trail Ridge Road, reintroduced elk, and a timed entry reservation system.
Rödgen
Rödgen is an Augustan-era Roman military supply camp near Bad Nauheim in the Wetterau, Hessen, Germany, part of the Roman advance into Germania around 11 to 8 BC.
Rodrigues Alves Park
Bosque Rodrigues Alves (Jardim Zoobotânico da Amazônia) is a 15-hectare urban Amazonian forest, botanical garden and zoo in central Belém, Pará, Brazil, inaugurated 25 August 1883, renamed in 1906 for President Rodrigues Alves, with 309 tree species and over 200,000 annual visitors.
Roe Deer Observation Center
Roe Deer Observation Center (제주 노루생태관찰원), a Jeju City ecological park opened August 3, 2007 in Bonggae-dong on Geochin Oreum, where about 220 wild roe deer roam 50 ha with a 2.6 km trail, feeding programs, and Korea's first live-mammal biotope conservation designation.
Roecliffe Fort
Roecliffe Fort is a Flavian Roman fort and vicus near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, found by geophysical survey before the A1 upgrade, occupied from about AD 71 into the 80s, and succeeded by Aldborough.
Roerich Pact
The Roerich Pact is a 1935 international treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., treating historic monuments, museums, and cultural institutions as neutral in both peace and war.
Roev ruchey
Roev Ruchey (Роев ручей), Krasnoyarsk Park of Flora and Fauna, a Siberian zoo opened 15 August 2000, first zoo built in Russia in the 21st century; 107 ha, 730 species, grew from the Stolby reserve live corner.
Rogna
Rogna is a village in Ileanda commune, Sălaj County, Romania, and an ancient place (Barrington Atlas 21 F2) recorded by Pleiades as a Roman-era mine with a salt tag, matching the Salina Rogna mine and a 2nd-3rd century watchtower.
Rohtas Fort
Rohtas Fort, also called Qila Rohtas, is a 16th-century garrison fortress near Jhelum in Punjab, Pakistan, built by Sher Shah Suri after defeating Humayun in 1541.
Rokua UNESCO Global Geopark
Rokua UNESCO Global Geopark, Finland's first geopark (designated 2015), is a 1,326 km² Ice Age landscape in Northern Ostrobothnia with eskers, dunes, kettle-hole lakes, and one of Finland's largest aquifers.
Roller coaster
A roller coaster is an amusement ride in which open cars run along an elevated track, gaining energy from a lift hill or launch and coasting under gravity.
Roller Track (Salihorsk)
Ролер трэк (roller track) is a World Skate-standard roller-sport circuit with parabolic banked turns on the embankment of Salihorsk, Belarus, with an inner skate park; described as the first such track in the post-Soviet space.
Rollright Stones
The Rollright Stones are three Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, the King's Men circle, the King Stone, and the Whispering Knights, on the Oxfordshire–Warwickshire border in England.