Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Shangdu (上都)

Site of Xanadu (元上都遗址, Shangdu) is the ruined grassland capital of Kublai Khan in Inner Mongolia, built from 1256 by Liu Bingzhong, Yuan summer capital 1274-1364, abandoned 1430, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012.

Shanghai Botanical Garden

The Shanghai Botanical Garden is a botanical garden of 81.86 hectares in Xuhui district, central Shanghai, established in 1974, holding about 10,500 species and known for its Shanghai-style bonsai.

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park

Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park (上海海昌海洋公园) is a marine theme park in Lingang, Pudong, Shanghai, opened November 2018 by Haichang Ocean Park Holdings; it spans about 29.7 hectares with polar animal exhibits, orca and dolphin shows, and a 2026 Phase II expansion.

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium (上海海洋水族馆), a public aquarium beside the Oriental Pearl Tower in Lujiazui, Pudong, opened February 2002; 20,500 m², 15,000+ animals of 450+ species, nine zones, 155-m tunnel, unique China Zone.

Shanghai Wild Animal Park

Shanghai Wild Animal Park (上海野生动物园), opened November 18, 1995 in Pudong, is China's first national-level safari park: 153 hectares, 200-plus species, bus and boat tours, 5A rating since 2007.

Shangqiu Zoo

Shangqiu Zoo (商丘动物园), inside Shangqiu People's Park, Liangyuan District, Henan, is the city's only operating zoo. Founded 1959; 35,000 m²; 40+ species; known for 20+ Siberian tigers and a leading breeding program.

Shangrila Paradise

Shangrila Paradise (香格里拉樂園) is a former 40-hectare theme park in Zaociao, Miaoli County, Taiwan, opened 1990, famous for the game show Baai Zaan Baai Sing, acquired by CMP Group and redeveloped into CMP Village glamping.

Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden

Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden (尚贤河湿地玫瑰园), a small rose and climbing-rose garden in Shangxianhe Wetland Park, Binhu District, Wuxi, China; reached via bus 130, 135, or 156 to Xuntangqiao stop, popular for spring blooms and wedding photography.

Shanhai Pass (山海关)

Shanhai Pass (山海关) is a fortified Ming Great Wall pass in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China, built in 1381 where the Wall meets the Bohai Sea, known as the "First Pass Under Heaven."

Shanhou Folk Culture Village

Shanhou Folk Culture Village (山后民俗文化村), also called Shanhou 18 Buildings, in Jinsha Township, Kinmen: eighteen 1900 Minnan houses built by merchants Wang Guozhen and Wang Jingxiang, now a free folk museum village.

Shaniwar Wada (शनिवार वाडा)

Shaniwar Wada (शनिवार वाडा), Pune palace-fort built by Peshwa Baji Rao I from 1730, seat of the Peshwas until 1818, gutted by the 1828 fire; walls, five gates, and Hazari Karanje fountain survive as an ASI-protected monument.

Shans

Shans (Georgian: შანსი) is a casino in Gonio village, Gonio-Kvariati district, Batumi, Ajara, Georgia, run as Shans Slot Casino & Hotel Batumi, founded 2017; rated 3.4/5 from 23 Madloba reviews. Distinct from the unrelated Russian online Casino Shans and Bulgarian KAZINO SHANS EOOD.

Shaoguan South China Tiger Park

Shaoguan South China Tiger Park (韶关华南虎园) is a breeding and research facility for the endangered South China tiger in Shaoguan, Guangdong, China, established in 2008.

Sharjah Aquarium

Sharjah Aquarium, opened 16 June 2008 in Al Khan, Sharjah, is the UAE's first and largest government-run marine education center: 20 tanks, 1.8 million liters, 150+ Arabian Gulf species, turtle and seahorse programs, joint ticket with the Maritime Museum.

Shark aquarium

Shark aquarium: public aquarium exhibits keeping sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes) for display, education, breeding, and research; sourced largely by wild collection, with welfare scores above 70/84 and growing conservation roles.

Shark School

Shark School (Cápasuli) is the Budapest Zoo's marine shark and ray exhibit, opened 13 December 2018, with a main tank over 750,000 liters and five shark species; the name is also used for shark education programs at other aquaria and a Bahamas diver course.

Sharpenhoe Clappers

Sharpenhoe Clappers is a scheduled monument on a chalk promontory at the northern tip of the Chilterns in Streatley, Bedfordshire: a possible Iron Age promontory fort whose visible bank is a medieval rabbit warren (claperius), with lynchets, National Trust beech woodland, and views over Sundon Hills.

Shat Al-arab Zoo

Shat Al-arab Zoo (حديقة حيوانات شط العرب) is a private zoo in Basra, Iraq, opened in April 2014 by Ahmad Mahmoud Al-Daftar and described as the governorate's first zoo.

Shatskyi Biosphere Reserve

Shatskyi Biosphere Reserve (біосферний резерват «Шацький»), UNESCO MAB site in Volyn, Ukraine, designated 2002 around Shatskyi National Nature Park (1983). Lake district in West Polesie; part of the Poland-Ukraine-Belarus Transboundary BR West Polesie since 2012; includes Lake Svitiaz, Ukraine's deepest at 58.4 m.

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She Who Watches

She Who Watches (Tsagaglalal) is a large carved and painted human face in rock at Columbia Hills State Park on the Columbia River in Washington.

Shefayim Water Park

Shefayim Water Park (פארק המים שפיים), Israel's first water park, opened 1984 on Kibbutz Shefayim near Netanya; about 60 dunams, 31 slides in 8 complexes, wave pool, Olympic pool, toddlers' area, daily visitor caps.

Sheikh Hamdan Falcon Center

Sheikh Hamdan Falcon Center: the Dubai Crown Prince's private falconry facility, the Al Aseefa center in Nad Al Sheba and the H3 Falcon Reserve (محمية صقور العاصفة), with a half-kilometer training hangar, falcon hospital, and prey breeding sections.

Sheikh Russel Amusement Centre

Sheikh Russel Amusement Centre is a theme park in Matuail, Ward 12, Dhaka, Bangladesh, near Kamalapur Stadium and railway station, named for Sheikh Russel, youngest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, like several children's parks nationwide.

Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil

The Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil is a World Heritage complex of Sufi buildings in Ardabil, Iran, built from the 16th to the 18th century.

Sheka Biosphere Reserve

Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve, a 238,750-hectare UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2012 in Sheka Zone, southwest Ethiopia, protecting Afromontane rainforest, wild coffee, endemic species, and about 200,000 residents.

Shelton Johnson

Shelton Johnson, Yosemite National Park ranger since 1987, portrays Buffalo Soldier Sgt. Elizy Boman of the Ninth Cavalry, researches soldier descendants, and won the Freeman Tilden Award and Honorary Kentucky Colonel honors.

Shenandoah National Park

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Blue Ridge park established 1935; 198,754 acres, 105-mile Skyline Drive, 101 miles of Appalachian Trail, 1.7 million 2024 visitors, Old Rag Granite about 1.1 billion years old.

Shennongjia Biosphere Reserve

Shennongjia Biosphere Reserve (神农架世界生物圈保护区), a UNESCO MAB site in Hubei, China, designated 1990; 70,467 ha, elevations 420–3,105 m; protects north subtropical primary forests and the golden snub-nosed monkey, and overlaps World Heritage and Global Geopark sites.

Shenshef

Shenshef (Hitan Shenshef) is a late-antique settlement in Egypt's Eastern Desert, about 20 km southwest of Berenike, with roughly 300 drystone structures, a first-century AD hilltop fort, and beads and food imports from the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.