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Saurierpark Kleinwelka
Saurierpark Kleinwelka is Germany's biggest dinosaur theme park, near Bautzen, Saxony. Founded 1978 from sculptor Franz Gruß's garden, it shows over 200 life-size dinosaurs on 16 hectares, with over six million visitors to date.
Sava di Baronissi
Sava di Baronissi is a hamlet of Baronissi in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy, known for a Roman villa beneath the church of Sant'Agnese.
Save America's Treasures
Save America's Treasures (SAT) is a U.S. federal matching-grant program created in 1998 under Executive Order 13072, administered by NPS with IMLS, NEA, and NEH, funding preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections through 1:1 matched grants from the Historic Preservation Fund.
Savegre Biosphere Reserve
Savegre Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2017 on Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, 312,902 ha with a marine component, holding 20% of the country's flora and 71 endemic plant species.
Savonnières-en-Perthois
Savonnières-en-Perthois, Meuse, France: village of about 460 inhabitants famed for the Pierre de Savonnières Jurassic limestone, 285 km of underground quarries, karst caves, and Natura 2000 bat hibernation sites.
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) is the German sandstone hill country along the Elbe southeast of Dresden, named by painters Zingg and Graff; its 1990 national park covers 9,344 ha with 1,135 climbable sandstone peaks.
Sayano-Shushenskiy Biosphere Reserve
Sayano-Shushenskiy Biosphere Reserve (Саяно-Шушенский биосферный заповедник), a 390,368 ha strict nature reserve in the Western Sayan, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, founded 17 March 1976, UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1985, known for snow leopard conservation and reservoir-impact research.
Sayuri World
Sayuri World (サユリワールド) is an interactive zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, opened in 2011, where visitors enter the animals' enclosures to feed and touch free-roaming capybaras and kangaroos.
Sboryanovo Historical and Archaeological Reserve
Sboryanovo (Сборяново) is a protected archaeological reserve in northeastern Bulgaria, between the villages of Malak Porovets and Sveshtari, preserving the center of the Getae, a Thracian tribe, and the UNESCO-listed Sveshtari Tomb.
Scaean Gate
Scaean Gate (Σκαιαὶ πύλαι), the main gate of Troy in Homer's Iliad, opening onto the battlefield plain; scene of the teichoscopy, Hector and Andromache's meeting, and Achilles' fated death; Schliemann misidentified it in Troy II.
Scampton
Scampton (Scantone, 1086) is a village in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, with a large 40-room Roman villa excavated in 1795 and RAF Scampton, the Dambusters' wartime base and later Blue Steel V-bomber airfield.
Scanno
Scanno: mountain town in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, at 1,050 m beside heart-shaped Lake Scanno in the Abruzzo National Park; first recorded 1067, known for wool wealth, costume, churches, and the Glorie fire rite.
Scarbia
Scarbia, Roman road station (mansio) in Raetia at or near Scharnitz, Tyrol, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Tarteno and Vetonina; identified with Scharnitz (Barrington 19 D2), on the Teriolis-Parthanum route, name surviving in Scharnitz.
Scarborough Castle
Scarborough Castle: medieval royal castle on a North Sea headland in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Founded by William le Gros in the 1130s; Henry II's great tower (1159–1169), Roman signal station, 1645 siege, 1914 shelling, Cold War ROC post.
Scărişoara
Scărişoara names several Romanian places: the Scărișoara Ice Cave in the Apuseni Mountains (Alba County), a 10,500-year-old underground glacier; the Alba commune; an Olt County commune; and a Roman gold-washing site.
Scauriniacum
Scauriniacum: Gallo-Roman villa in Gaul, attested in the 572 testament of Saint Yrieix; identified (Barrington Atlas 14 G3) with Chabrignac, Corrèze, France; name from Scaurinus + -iacum.
Schaan
Schaan is Liechtenstein's largest municipality, in the Rhine valley, first recorded as Scana around 840. Known for its late Roman fort, St. Peter's chapel, industrial center, and the new Kulturbrauerei artist residencies.
Schastye Est
Счастье есть ("Happiness exists"), park of culture and recreation in Kirovsky district, Perm (Zakamsk), opened 28 August 1971, renamed after a 2014 contest, 1.7 ha pine-forest park with Ferris wheel, run by MAUK PermPark, slated for 200-million-ruble 2027 redevelopment.
Scheduled monument
Scheduled monument: a UK archaeological site or structure of national importance on the Schedule under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979; 20,001 in England in 2025, protected via Scheduled Monument Consent.
Schiavi
Schiavi: the Italic sanctuary (Templi Italici) at Schiavi d'Abruzzo, Chieti, Abruzzo; two Samnite temples of the 2nd-1st century BC with an Oscan inscription dated 90-88 BC.
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and adjacent areas
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and adjacent areas (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer), Ramsar Site no. 537 since 1991, 454,988 ha, 40% of the Wadden Sea; national park, UNESCO biosphere reserve, World Heritage component, and major waterbird site.
Schokland and Surroundings
Schokland and Surroundings (Schokland en omgeving): Dutch UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995, a former Zuiderzee island evacuated in 1859 and enclosed by the reclaimed Noordoostpolder in 1942.
Schola Praeconum
Schola Praeconum, also Schola degli Araldi: 3rd-century AD Severan guild headquarters on the southern slope of Rome's Palatine, identified as the seat of the circus heralds (praecones), with a unique black-and-white mosaic of eight heralds; reopened to the public in February 2025.
School of Homer Ag. Athanasios excavations (Ithaca)
The School of Homer excavations at Agios Athanasios are University of Ioannina digs in northern Ithaca, Greece (1994–2012), whose excavators identified the acropolis as the palace of Odysseus.
Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve
Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve (Biosphärenreservat Schorfheide-Chorin), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Brandenburg, Germany, designated 1990; 129,161 ha with about 240 lakes, the Grumsin beech forest World Heritage site, and Germany's largest organic farming region.
Schwerin Residence Ensemble
Schwerin Residence Ensemble (Residenzensemble Schwerin), a 19th-century architectural and landscape ensemble of 38 elements around Schwerin Castle, capital of Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; UNESCO World Heritage site since 27 July 2024, criterion (iv), Germany's 54th site.
Scicli
Scicli, Baroque town in the province of Ragusa, Val di Noto, Sicily; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 with eight towns; rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake; Montalbano filming location.
Scingomagus
Scingomagus (Scincomagus, Excingomagus), an ancient Roman road station in the Cottian Alps identified with Exilles in the Susa valley, Italy, between Ocelum and Eburodunum, known from Pliny NH 2.244 and the Alpine itineraries.
Scoglietto
Scoglietto (Alberese, Grosseto, Tuscany): Roman rural sanctuary of Diana Umbronensis on a 20 m hilltop in Maremma Regional Park near the Ombrone mouth, occupied from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD, excavated 2009-2011.
Scoppieto
Scoppieto is an archaeological site in the comune of Baschi, Umbria, Italy, where a major Roman pottery workshop making terra sigillata replaced a 4th-century BC Italic sanctuary.