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Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), Piauí, Brazil: 1979 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, with over 1,000 archaeological sites, rock art, and the disputed Pedra Furada pre-Clovis dates.
Servanne
Servanne, ancient site at Mouriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (BAtlas 15 D2), a Pleiades-recorded villa on the southern Alpilles piedmont; Iron Age habitat and necropolis excavated in 1988 before golf-course construction.
Servian
Servian: chiefly the Servian Wall (Mura Serviane), Rome's first stone city wall, built after 378 BC of Grotta Oscura tufa from Veii; also Servian, a wine-growing commune in the Hérault, France, near Béziers.
Servitium
Servitium (also Seruitio, Serbitium, Σερβίτιον) was a Roman road station and municipium in Pannonia Superior at modern Bosanska Gradiška, Bosnia, on the Siscia–Sirmium road, later base of the Classis prima Pannonica.
Sesame Place Philadelphia
Sesame Place Philadelphia is a Sesame Street-themed children's theme and water park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, opened in 1980 by Children's Television Workshop, now run by SeaWorld Parks; first Certified Autism Center theme park.
Sese Grande
Sese Grande, or Sese del Re, is the largest and only intact sesi, a Bronze Age megalithic burial mound at Mursia, Pantelleria: 5.58 m high, 20 m across, with twelve cells, corridors up to 7 m, and sarcophagi inside.
Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark
Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark is a UNESCO-designated territory of about 2,200 km² in Piedmont, Italy, recognized in 2013 for its exposed section of the Earth's crust.
Sesönk
Sesönk (Dikilitaş Tumulus) is a Commagene royal tomb near Besni, Adıyaman, Turkey: a rubble-stone mound over a rock-cut chamber with three niches, attributed to Mithridates II (buried 36-21 BC), ringed by Doric columns.
Sette Bassi
Sette Bassi is the ruins of one of ancient Rome's largest suburban villas, built near the Via Latina under Antoninus Pius, second only to the Villa dei Quintili.
Setté Cama
Setté Cama is a 240,000-hectare Ramsar wetland site (no. 353) in Ogooué-Maritime, Gabon, designated 30 December 1986, comprising the Ouanga fauna reserve and Sette-Cama hunting domain, rich in birds, mammals, and marine turtles near Loango National Park.
Sette Sale
Sette Sale (Cisterna delle Sette Sale), ancient Roman cistern on Rome's Oppian Hill; nine chambers on two levels, over 8 million liters, built under Trajan to supply the Baths of Trajan.
Settecamini
Settecamini, Rome: archaeological area in eastern Rome on the ancient via Tiburtina (8th-9th mile), with a 1st-century BC post station, tombs, a villa, and an inn, used from the 1st century BC to the 6th century AD.
Settefinestre
Settefinestre: Roman villa near Cosa in southern Etruria (Tuscany), excavated 1976–1981 by Andrea Carandini; the best-known example of Varro's villa perfecta, a slave-run wine-producing estate of the Sestii family, abandoned in the Antonine period.
Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region
UNESCO World Heritage site (2021) in Arica and Parinacota, Chile: three Chinchorro culture components preserving the oldest known artificially mummified human bodies, made from about 5050 BCE on the Atacama coast.
Seven Luck Casino Busan Lotte
Seven Luck Casino Busan Lotte (세븐럭 부산 롯데점), a foreigner-only casino in Lotte Hotel Busan run by state-owned Grand Korea Leisure; opened 23 June 2006, 41 table games, open 24/7.
Seven Luck Casino Dragon City
Seven Luck Casino Seoul Dragon City (세븐럭카지노 서울드래곤시티점) is a GKL-run, foreigners-only casino on the 5th floor of Seoul Dragon City's Convention Tower in Yongsan, opened December 31, 2022, replacing the Gangbuk Hilton branch; 55 tables, 24/7, 19+ with passport.
Seven Luck Casino Gangbuk Hilton
Seven Luck Casino Gangbuk Hilton (세븐 럭 카지노 강북 힐튼 점) was GKL's foreigner-only casino at the Millennium Seoul Hilton, opened May 26, 2006, renovated 2010, closed end of 2022 and relocated to Seoul Dragon City.
Seven Luck Casino Gangnam Coex
Seven Luck Casino Gangnam Coex, a foreigner-only casino in the COEX Convention Annex, Samseong-dong, Gangnam, Seoul; opened January 27, 2006, run 24/7 by Grand Korea Leisure, with table games and slots.
Sexaginta Prista
Sexaginta Prista (Сексагинта Приста), "sixty ships", was a Roman Danube frontier fort and probable naval base at modern Ruse, Bulgaria, over a Thracian ritual site, with a 4th-century principia, later a medieval necropolis.
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso (Botanični vrt Sežana ob vili Mirasasso), a Slovenian botanical garden founded 1848 by the Greek Scaramangà family of Trieste, with ~170 species, an 1890 Schönbrunn-style greenhouse, and protected cultural-monument status.
Shade Garden
Shade garden: a garden of low-light-adapted plants, often forest understory species. Key facts: shade classes by hours of midsummer sun, plant shade-avoidance responses, dry-soil challenges under trees, and notable examples in Montréal, Hartford, and Chicago.
Shadegan Marshes & mudflats of Khor-al Amaya & Khor Musa
Shadegan Marshes & mudflats of Khor-al Amaya & Khor Musa (Shadegan International Wetland), Iran's largest Ramsar site (no. 41, 400,000 ha, designated 1975) in Khuzestan at the Persian Gulf; Montreux Record since 1993; key Marbled Teal wintering site.
Shadwell Roman Bathhouse
Shadwell Roman Bathhouse: a large mid-3rd-century AD Roman bath complex, also called the Shadwell baths, excavated 2002-2003 in Tower Hamlets, east London, and preserved in situ beneath the Eluna Apartments as scheduled monument 1456951.
Shah Pir
Shah Pir: compound Persian honorific joining shah (king) and pir (Sufi saint or spiritual guide), used for revered figures and shrines including the Shahpir tombs of Iran and Dargah Shah Pir Mohammad in Lucknow.
Shahgoli 2nd Phase
Shahgoli 2nd Phase (فاز ۲ ائل گولی) is a theme park in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, the second-phase expansion of Tabriz's El Goli (Shahgoli) park, begun 1389 SH to quadruple the park, with a 50-hectare first phase and 220-hectare total.
Shahre Gheseh Theme Park
Shahre Gheseh Theme Park (Hezaro Yek Shahr, Story City) is a $350 million amusement park under construction in Tehran's District 22, Iran, developed by Ezam Construction Investment Company, designed by Forrec, with seven themed Diar zones; construction resumed in 2024 with phases opening 2026.
Shakenoak
Shakenoak, also called Shakenoak Farm or Shakenoak Roman Villa, is a Roman villa site at Wilcote near Witney in Oxfordshire, England, occupied until about AD 750.
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Shakespeare's Birthplace, the half-timbered Henley Street house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564; John Shakespeare's glover's shop, later an inn, bought for the nation in 1847 and now a Grade I listed museum run by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Shalamar Gardens, Lahore
Shalamar Gardens (شالیمار باغ), also Shalimar Gardens, a 16-hectare Mughal garden in Lahore built by Shah Jahan 1641–1642 on three terraces with 410 fountains; UNESCO World Heritage Site 1981, in Danger 2000–2012.
Shandong Yellow River Delta Wetland
Shandong Yellow River Delta Wetland (山东黄河三角洲国家级自然保护区), a 95,950 ha Ramsar site designated 2013 in Dongying, Shandong, China: young Yellow River delta wetland, key East Asian-Australasian Flyway stopover, oriental stork and Saunders's gull habitat, restored by water replenishment and Spartina removal.