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Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest: former Royal hunting forest in Nottinghamshire, England, first recorded 958 AD as Sciryuda, legendary home of Robin Hood; now a 424.75-hectare National Nature Reserve of ancient oaks including the Major Oak, which died in 2026.
Shetland UNESCO Global Geopark
Shetland UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Shetland), UK, designated 2009, covers 1,468 km² of Shetland Islands with nearly three billion years of geology, including the Shetland Ophiolite Complex; managed by Shetland Amenity Trust, one of two Scottish geoparks.
Shian bowling
Shian Bowling (بولینگ شیان) is a bowling and entertainment center in northeastern Tehran near Heravi Square and Sadaf Park, with eight lanes, billiards, air hockey, foosball, and darts; distinct from the cricketer Shian Brathwaite.
Shibamasa World
Shibamasa World (芝政ワールド) is a large amusement park and water resort in Sakai, Fukui, Japan, with about 50 water slides, a wave pool, Kids Paradise, Dinosaur Forest, and a seaside campground on the Sea of Japan.
Shikoku Aquarium
Shikoku Aquarium (四国水族館) is a public aquarium in Utazu, Kagawa, Japan, opened March 20, 2020 at the foot of the Great Seto Bridge; themed on Shikoku's waterscape with a 650,000-liter Watatsumi main tank, four signature tanks, six zones, and mascot Shuko-kun.
Shikoku Mura
Shikoku Mura (四国村), or Shikoku Mura Museum, is an open-air museum at Yashima, Takamatsu, Kagawa, founded 1976 by Tatsuo Kato, with 33 relocated Edo–Taisho buildings from all four Shikoku prefectures, a Tadao Ando gallery, and a vine bridge.
Shimane Aquarium AQUAS
Shimane Aquarium AQUAS is a public aquarium in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, opened in 2000, known for exhibiting beluga whales, the only facility in western Japan to do so.
Shimoda Sea Aquarium
Shimoda Sea Aquarium (下田海中水族館), opened March 1967 in Shimoda, Shizuoka, is a Fujita Kanko subsidiary aquarium built around a natural cove, with the floating Aqua Dome Perry, sea-level dolphin shows, and hands-on dolphin programs.
Shin Enoshima Aquarium
Shin Enoshima Aquarium (新江ノ島水族館, Enosui), Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; opened 2004 as successor to Japan's first modern aquarium (1954). Known for Sagami Bay main tank, jellyfish halls, JAMSTEC deep-sea research, and dolphin shows.
Shinagawa Aquarium
Shinagawa Aquarium (しながわ水族館) is a Tokyo public aquarium opened in 1991 in Shinagawa Kumin Park near Omori-Kaigan Station, distinct from Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa, with a 22-meter tunnel tank, dolphin and seal shows, and 1,844 tons of water.
Shinan Dadohae Biosphere Reserve
Shinan Dadohae Biosphere Reserve (신안다도해 생물권보전지역), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Shinan County, South Korea, designated May 26, 2009 and expanded in 2016 to the whole county (3,238.7 km²), known for tidal flats, sun-dried salt, and migratory birds.
Shinhama Imperial Wild Duck Preserve
Shinhama Kamoba (新浜鴨場), an Imperial Household Agency duck preserve in Ichikawa, Chiba, opened 1893; 12,000 m2 Motodamari pond, over 2,000 wintering ducks, harmless traditional duck netting, banding research, and guest reception.
Shinkong Chaofeng Ranch & Resort
Shinkong Chaofeng Ranch & Resort (新光兆豐休閒農場), also Shin Kong Chao Feng, is a 726-hectare leisure farm and resort in Fenglin, Hualien, Taiwan, built on reclaimed riverbed land, designated eastern Taiwan's first leisure farm in 1980, with dairy herd, bird park, hot springs, and lodging.
Shinrokuen
Shinrokuen (神鹿園) is the sacred deer enclosure at Mishima Taisha, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan. Deer transferred from Nara's Kasuga Taisha in 1919, starting with 8 and now about 40, are kept as divine messengers.
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale: ten National Register-listed Lake Superior wrecks (Algoma, America, Kamloops, Emperor, Monarch, and others) lost near Isle Royale National Park along the hazardous Passage Island shipping passage, now managed dive sites.
Shirahama Aquarium
Shirahama Aquarium (白浜水族館), Kyoto University Shirahama Aquarium, is a university-run aquarium in Shirahama, Wakayama, opened 1930; Japan's third oldest at one site, showing about 500 local species, mostly invertebrates.
Shirvan Nature Reserve
Shirvan Nature Reserve (Şirvan Dövlət Təbiət Qoruğu), a strict state nature reserve in Salyan and Neftchala districts, Azerbaijan, established 30 April 1969 from the Bendovan reserve to protect goitered gazelles and water birds; largely transferred to Shirvan National Park in 2003.
Shivneri Fort (शिवनेरी किल्ला)
Shivneri Fort (शिवनेरी किल्ला) is a triangular hill fort near Junnar, Pune district, Maharashtra, famed as the birthplace of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on 19 February 1630, with seven gates, Badami Talav, Ganga-Jamuna springs, and UNESCO listing in 2025.
Shkodër Lake Biosphere Reserve
The Shkodër Lake Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve around Lake Shkodër in Albania, designated in 2026 and home to over 280 bird species, including the Dalmatian pelican.
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area, Ramsar site 792 (listed 1 March 1996), a 202,023-hectare wetland of international importance over ~330 km of central Queensland coast near Rockhampton, spanning Broome Head, Shoalwater Bay, and Corio Bay, meeting 8 of 9 Ramsar criteria.
Shoes on the Danube Bank
Shoes on the Danube Bank (Cipők a Duna-parton) is a 2005 Holocaust memorial in Budapest: sixty pairs of cast iron shoes by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer marking where Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews into the Danube in 1944–45.
Shorts Ground Cover Garden
Shorts Ground Cover Garden, a 1992 groundcover display garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington, created from Harriet Shorts' idea, renovated and dedicated to her in 2002, with a recirculated stream and Tateuchi Pavilion.
Shot at Dawn Memorial
Shot at Dawn Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire: Andy DeComyn's 2001 statue of blindfolded Private Herbert Burden with 306 stakes honoring WWI soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice, pardoned in 2006.
Shouf Biosphere Reserve
Shouf Biosphere Reserve (Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve), Lebanon's first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve (2005), a ~50,000 ha protected area with 620 ha of cedar forest, 520 plant species, and 24 municipalities practicing community ecotourism.
Shuangtai Estuary
Shuangtai Estuary (Shuangtaizi Estuary, 双台河口), a 128,000-ha Ramsar wetland (site 1441, 2004) at the Liao River mouth, Liaodong Bay, Liaoning, China; world's largest reed marsh, red beach Suaeda flats, key East Asian-Australasian Flyway stopover.
Shulgovka
Shulgovka (Shulhivka, Шульгівка) is a Scythian royal barrow near Novomykolaivka, Ukraine, excavated by N. I. Veselovsky 1889–1891; it gives its name to a type of single-edged Scythian sword, with finds lost in WWII.
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (SchUM, שום): German serial UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2021, four medieval Jewish components, criteria ii, iii, vi, Taqqanot ShUM 1220.
Siam Amazing Park
Siam Amazing Park, also known as Siam Park City or Suan Siam, is an amusement and water park in Bangkok, Thailand, opened in 1980 and home to the world's largest artificial sea.
Siam Insect Zoo
Siam Insect Zoo (สวนสัตว์แมลงสยาม) is a live-insect breeding farm, research center, and insect museum in Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, Thailand, founded in 2006 by entomologist Pisuth Ek-Amnuay, with pinned-specimen museum rooms, a butterfly garden, reptiles, and hands-on insect encounters.
Sian Ka'an
Sian Ka'an (Maya, 'Origin of the Sky'), a biosphere reserve and 1987 UNESCO World Heritage site in Quintana Roo, Mexico, protecting 528,148 ha of reef, mangroves, and tropical forest, managed by CONANP with fishing cooperatives.