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Ruda
Ruda: name of several European mining localities, chiefly Ruda-Brad, a Roman gold mine in Hunedoara, Romania, with 120 m-deep workings and wheel drainage; also sites in Czechia, Poland, and Rude, Croatia.
Rudston Roman Villa
Rudston Roman Villa, a scheduled Romano-British villa near Rudston, East Yorkshire, discovered in 1933, excavated 1930s-1970s, known for the Venus and Charioteer mosaics now in Hull and East Riding Museum.
Ruffenhofen
Ruffenhofen Roman fort and vicus, a 3.7 ha cavalry fort on the Raetian Limes in Bavaria, occupied about 110-260 AD, largest between Aalen and Weißenburg, now the Römerpark and LIMESEUM museum.
Rufiji-Mafia-Kilwa Marine Ramsar Site
Rufiji-Mafia-Kilwa Marine Ramsar Site (RUMAKI), Tanzania's only coastal marine Ramsar site, designated 2004, covering 596,908 ha of Rufiji Delta mangroves, Mafia Island reefs, Songo-Songo and the Mafia Channel.
Ruined church
Ruined church: roofless remains of a former church, notably the scheduled monument (list entry 1005839) of St Mary's parish church at Treyford, West Sussex, scheduled 18 June 1951, Grade II listed, with 13th-century nave and chancel walls abandoned in the 19th century.
Ruins
Ruins: remains of buildings destroyed or decayed to a considerable degree, central to heritage conservation. Covers the Venice Charter's anti-reconstruction doctrine, exceptions like Warsaw and Timbuktu, and threats from climate, war, and tourism.
Ruins of A Large Chandella Temple
Ruins of a Large Chandella Temple, Ramnagar, Chitrakut, Uttar Pradesh: ASI centrally protected monument (S.No. 2959, Jhansi Circle), notified 1920-21; sanctum gone, 40-foot mandapa on eight carved pillars remains.
Ruins of A Saiva Temple
Ruins of a Saiva Temple, Ahugi, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-S105) of ruined Shiva temple remains on a low mound, protected 1920 under Sarnath Circle.
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara: medieval Swahili port cities on islands off southern Tanzania, UNESCO-listed in 1981. Kilwa traded gold, ivory, and Chinese porcelain, minted its own coins, and was praised by Ibn Battuta; Songo Mnara was its planned 14th-century offshoot.
Ruins of León Viejo
Ruins of León Viejo (León de Nagrando), first capital of Nicaragua, founded 1524 by Hernández de Córdoba, abandoned 1610 after earthquakes and the Momotombo eruption; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000.
Ruins of Loropéni
The Ruins of Loropéni are fortified stone settlement remains in southwestern Burkina Faso, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2009 linked to the medieval gold trade.
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur (Somapura Mahavihara), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985 in Naogaon, Bangladesh: a 920-foot square Pala-era Buddhist monastery with 177 cells and a 70-foot cruciform central shrine, built by King Dharmapala.
Rujm el-Farideyyeh
Rujm el-Farideyyeh (Rujm al-Faridiyya) was a Roman-period castrum on the Via Nova Traiana in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan, at mile 58 from Petra; a 45 m ashlar fort dated 30 BC to AD 300, bulldozed between 2013 and 2017.
Rumaki (Rufiji-Mafia-Kibiti-Kilwa) Biosphere Reserve
RUMAKI (Rufiji-Mafia-Kibiti-Kilwa) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2023 on Tanzania's south-eastern coast, spanning 1,054,095 ha around Mafia Island and the Rufiji Delta, including Tanzania's first marine park.
Rungra People's Pleasure Ground
Rungra People's Pleasure Ground (릉라인민유원지), also called Rungna People's Pleasure Ground, is an amusement park on Rungra Island in Pyongyang, North Korea, opened in July 2012 by Kim Jong Un, with a dolphinarium, water park, and Zamperla rides.
Runnymede
Runnymede is a Thames water-meadow in Surrey, England, where King John sealed Magna Carta on 15 June 1215; now a National Trust estate with the Magna Carta, Kennedy and Air Forces memorials, paired with Ankerwycke.
Rusidava
Rusidava (Rusidaua), a Geto-Dacian settlement and Roman fort on the Olt limes in Dacia, attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana near Drăgășani, Romania; destroyed by the Carpi in 245–247 AD, with disputed location (Momotești vs Strejeștii de Jos).
Ruskeala Mountain Park
Ruskeala Mountain Park (Горный парк «Рускеала») is a tourist park in Karelia, Russia, opened in 2005 on flooded former marble quarries, with the Marble Canyon as its centerpiece.
Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument, near Bridgeport, Alabama, is a National Park Service archeological site proclaimed by Kennedy in 1961 on 310 donated acres, preserving a rock shelter used for about 12,000 years.
Russi Roman Villa
Villa romana di Russi: a Roman villa urbano-rustica near Ravenna, Italy, discovered in 1938 in a clay quarry. Over 3,500 m², active from the Republican era to the 4th century, it supplied the imperial fleet at Ravenna and is among northern Italy's best preserved villas.
Russian village 'Shuvalovka'
Russian village 'Shuvalovka' (Шуваловка) is an ethnographic leisure and entertainment complex in the Peterhof area of Saint Petersburg, Russia, opened in 2003 and named for Count Ivan Shuvalov.
Rutland Roman Villa
Rutland Roman Villa, or Ketton villa, a Roman villa complex found in 2020 near Ketton, Rutland, with a unique 11 by 7 metre Trojan War mosaic of Achilles and Hector, scheduled in 2021.
Rutschi Tig
Rutschi Tig (Verkhnyaya Rutkha), a necropolis in the Digor gorge of North Ossetia, Russia; findspot of an inscribed Urartian bronze helmet of Argišti I, now in Berlin.
Ruyan-on-Ob
Ruyan-on-Ob (Руян-на-Оби, Ruyan-mayak) is a park and recreation base on the Ob River near Urtam, Tomsk Oblast, 120 km from Tomsk, with a 17-meter lighthouse and a copy of Antarctica's only Orthodox church; it began as the abandoned 2010 Ruyan-gorod entrepreneur-city project.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda's 99,600 ha World Heritage Site (1994) in the Rwenzori range, holds Mount Margherita (5,109 m), Africa's third highest peak, Albertine Rift endemic flora, and glaciers projected gone by 2030.
Ryan Field (2026)
Ryan Field (2026) is Northwestern University's new 35,000-seat football stadium in Evanston, Illinois, opened October 2, 2026. The privately financed $850-870 million rebuild features a sunken field, full-seat canopy, and up to six annual concerts.
S. Agnese
Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (Basilica of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls), Rome, Via Nomentana: 4th-century Constantinian funerary basilica rebuilt by Pope Honorius I, with 7th-century apse mosaic, catacombs, and Mausoleo di Santa Costanza.
S. Alessandro
S. Alessandro: the Basilica and Catacomb of St. Alexander on Rome's Via Nomentana, a fourth-century martyr shrine of Alexander, Evenzio, and Teodulo; distinct from the Via Salaria catacomb also called di S. Alessandro.
S. Callisto
S. Callisto, the Catacombs of San Callisto on Rome's Appian Way, the Church's first own cemetery, entrusted to deacon Callixtus around 199 AD, with 20 km of galleries, the Crypt of the Popes, and rediscovery by de Rossi in 1854.
S. Cruz
S. Cruz (Villa romana de Santa Cruz), late Roman villa at Baños de Valdearados, Burgos, Spain; discovered 1972, excavated by Argente Oliver; famed for its 4th-century Bacchus mosaic, stolen in 2011 and replaced by a replica.