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Scordisci
Scordisci (Greek Σκορδίσται), a Celtic tribe of the Danube–Sava confluence after 279 BCE, fought Rome for a century, submitted by 12 BCE, and survived as a Pannonian civitas.
Scotiabank Centre
Scotiabank Centre, formerly the Halifax Metro Centre, is a multi-purpose arena in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, opened in 1978 and home to the Halifax Mooseheads.
Scott Monument
The Scott Monument, Edinburgh's 61-metre Victorian Gothic spire in Princes Street Gardens, memorializes Sir Walter Scott; designed by George Meikle Kemp, built 1840-1844 in Binny sandstone, inaugurated 1846, with 64 statues and a 287-step climb.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Scotts Bluff National Monument is a 3,003-acre National Park Service unit near Gering, Nebraska, established December 12, 1919 by Woodrow Wilson, preserving an 800-foot bluff, Mitchell Pass Oregon Trail ruts, New Deal-era buildings, and the largest William Henry Jackson watercolor collection.
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle (Death Valley Ranch), a 1920s Spanish Revival estate in Grapevine Canyon, Death Valley National Park, built by Albert Johnson and named for con man Walter "Death Valley Scotty" Scott; closed since the 2015 flood, with limited tours and full reopening eyed for November 2028.
Scratchbury Camp
Scratchbury Camp (Scratchbury Hill), an Iron Age univallate hillfort of 17 ha near Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, on Salisbury Plain; single rampart, three entrances, about 100 roundhouse hollows, six round barrows, and Roman finds; scheduled monument 1010213.
Scrovegni Chapel
Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel, Cappella degli Scrovegni), Padua: small church dedicated to Santa Maria della Carità, frescoed 1303–1305 by Giotto for Enrico Scrovegni on Roman arena ruins, consecrated 25 March 1305, UNESCO-listed 2021.
Scylla (site)
Scylla is a promontory at Scilla, Calabria, on the Strait of Messina, known in antiquity as Scyllaeum and identified as the home of Homer's monster Scylla.
Sé Girdan
Sé Girdan (Se Girdan) is a cemetery of eleven Early Bronze Age Maikop-type burial tumuli near Cheshme Göl in the Ushnu valley, northwestern Iran, excavated 1968-1970 by Oscar White Muscarella and re-dated from Iron III to the late 4th-3rd millennia BC.
Sea Breeze Gardens
حدائق نسيم البحر (Hada'iq Nasim al-Bahr, Sea Breeze Gardens) is a family entertainment and gardens venue in Najaf old city, Iraq, overlooking the dry Najaf lake basin; a 7,500 m² landscape project built 2014–2016 for the Zamzam Tourism Group at a cost of 1 billion Iraqi dinars.
Sea Life Bangkok
SEA LIFE Bangkok Ocean World, formerly Siam Ocean World (2005, rebranded 2014), is Merlin Entertainments' aquarium on B1-B2 of Siam Paragon, Bangkok, with a 270-degree tunnel, penguins, sharks up to 4 m, 10:00-20:00 daily, foreign adult tickets from 1,099 THB.
SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium
SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium, formerly Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World, is an Auckland public aquarium opened 25 January 1985 inside disused sewage tanks, featuring the world's first curved acrylic viewing tunnel and sub-Antarctic penguins.
SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium (Australia)
SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium, opened January 2000 on the Yarra River at Flinders and King Streets, is a Merlin Entertainments aquarium with 12 themed zones, about 10,000 creatures, King and Gentoo penguins, and a 2-million-litre Southern Ocean oceanarium.
Sea Life Park
Sea Life Park Hawaii, Waimanalo marine theme park on Oahu opened 1964, known for dolphin shows, green sea turtle breeding colony, seabird sanctuary, 2022 mortality controversy, and 2026 Hawaiian Council acquisition.
SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium
SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium on the city side of Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia, owned by Merlin Entertainments and opened in 1988 as Sydney Aquarium.
Sea Turtle Museum
Sea Turtle Museum (Kumejima Umigame-kan, 久米島ウミガメ館) is a 2012 town-run sea turtle aquarium and conservation facility on Oku Island, Kumejima, Okinawa, distinct from Churaumi's Umigame-kan, Yakushima Umigame-kan, and Caretta.
Sea turtle pavilion
A sea turtle pavilion is an aquarium or park facility for displaying sea turtles, combining a large pool with above- and underwater viewing and educational panels.
Seabegs Wood
Seabegs Wood, Falkirk, Scotland: Antonine Wall site with a 400 m visible stretch of ditch and rampart, the best-preserved Military Way section, and a 21.8 by 18 m Roman fortlet found in 1977, built with the Wall; no fort confirmed despite searches.
Seaflower Biosphere Reserve
Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO MAB site (2000) in the Colombian Caribbean covering the San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina archipelago; 180,000 km² with a 65,000 km² marine protected area (2005), Colombia's first and the Caribbean's largest.
Seaside Park Soleil Hill
Seaside Park Soleil Hill (Nagai Uminote Park Soleil Hill, 長井海の手公園 ソレイユの丘) is a free-admission municipal park in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; opened 2005 as Japan's first PFI urban park, renewed April 2023 with a 15 m athletic course, zip line, glamping, and dog areas.
Seattle Aquarium
Seattle Aquarium: nonprofit public aquarium on Pier 59, Seattle's central waterfront, opened 1977; ninth largest in the U.S. by attendance; operated by Seattle Aquarium Society since 2010; Ocean Pavilion expansion opened August 29, 2024.
SeaWorld Ancol
SeaWorld Ancol (Sea World Ancol), formerly SeaWorld Indonesia, is a large public aquarium in Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, North Jakarta. Opened 3 June 1994; underwater glass tunnel; renamed 2015 under PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol.
Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, also called Sebasteion of Aphrodisias: Roman imperial cult complex in Caria, Turkey, dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors, built c. AD 20–60, with three-story porticoes and about 80 surviving relief panels.
Sebastia
Sebastia (Sebaste), West Bank archaeological mound northwest of Nablus, ancient Samaria, capital of the biblical Kingdom of Israel; inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List and List in Danger in 2026, State of Palestine, 79 ha.
Šebastovce
Šebastovce (formerly Žebeš) is a borough of Košice, Slovakia, in Košice IV district, 7.5 km south of the center. Independent village until 1976; site of Slovakia's only completely excavated Avar-period cemetery, 370 graves.
Sechín
Sechín is a group of archaeological monuments in the Casma Valley of coastal Peru, including Cerro Sechín and Sechín Bajo, built between about 3700 and 1300 BC.
Seckmauern
Seckmauern is a village in Lützelbach, Odenwaldkreis, Hesse, Germany, first recorded about 1248, with 1,554 residents in 2021. It hosts Kastell Seckmauern (ORL 46b), an early, short-lived Roman numerus fort on the Odenwald Limes, discovered in 1901.
Securisca
Securisca, also spelled Securispa or Curisca, was a Roman fort and road station on the Danube frontier in Lower Moesia, near Cherkovitsa and Byala Voda in modern Bulgaria.
Sedlec Ossuary
Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice Sedlec), the Bone Church near Kutná Hora, Czech Republic: a chapel decorated with about 40,000 human bones, arranged by Santini-Aichel and František Rint (1870), from a medieval plague and famine cemetery.
Seeboden
Seeboden am Millstätter See is a market municipality in Carinthia, Austria, at the northern end of the Millstätter See. A Barrington Atlas ancient site with a Roman road station, late Roman domed tomb, Burg Sommeregg, and sculptor Otto Eder's birthplace.