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Aufidena/Aufinum
Aufidena/Aufinum: Aufidena, a major Samnite town of the Pentri in the Sangro valley (Alfedena/Castel di Sangro, Abruzzo), conquered by Rome in 298 BC and later a municipium; Aufinum, a distinct praefectura of the Vestini cismontani.
Augemmi
Augemmi (also Auzemmi, Augarmi, Agarmi) was a Roman road station 41 miles from Tacape (Gabès) on the military road toward the Lesser Syrte in Africa Proconsularis; its exact site, proposed as Kouetin, Ksar Medenine, or Henchir Kredema, remains uncertain.
Augusta Bagiennorum amphitheater
Roman amphitheater at Augusta Bagiennorum, Bene Vagienna, Italy; elliptical, 105 x 77 m, built on an embankment shortly after the city's late 1st-century BC founding, used to the 3rd century AD, western sector excavated in the early 2000s.
Augustae
Augustae (Avgustis, Avgustas), Roman Danube frontier fortress and early Byzantine town near Kozloduy, Bulgaria; mid-1st-century wood-and-earth camp, 9 ha, ended by Avars in 583. Distinct from Augustea, buildings of imperial worship.
Augusteum, Antioch in Pisidia
Augusteum of Pisidian Antioch (Colonia Caesarea): imperial cult sanctuary with Corinthian temple, semicircular two-storey portico, triple-arched propylon, and a stone copy of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, excavated by Ramsay (1913) and Michigan (1924).
Augusteum, so-called Basilica at Herculaneum
Augusteum, so-called Basilica at Herculaneum: Roman imperial-cult shrine in Herculaneum, Italy, explored via 18th-century Bourbon tunnels, still buried; distinct from the Sede degli Augustali and Basilica Noniana.
Augustiana
Augustiana (also Augustianis), Roman auxiliary cavalry fort at Traismauer, Austria, on the Norican Danube Limes, home of the Ala I Augusta Thracum, occupied from the mid-1st to the 5th century AD; distinct from the Domus Augustana in Rome.
Aukštakiemiai, Palanga, Šernai
Aukštakiemiai (Oberhof), Palanga, and Šernai: Baltic-coast Lithuanian archaeological cemeteries of the former Memelland, spanning the Roman Iron Age to the Middle Ages, with Tischler's chronology, lost Prussia-Museum finds, and Viking Age Palanga trade finds.
Aulazon
Aulazon is an ancient toponym of Africa Proconsularis, attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana (sheet 7C1) and in the Ravenna Cosmographer, identified near Bir el-Asela and dated Late Antique.
Auld Bourtreebush
Auld Bourtreebush (Old Bourtreebush) is a recumbent stone circle and cairn near Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated c. 2500-1500 BC, with an eastward recumbent, protected as Scheduled Monument SM980 near the Aquhorthies circle.
Aurariae Dacicae
Aurariae Dacicae, the imperial gold-mining district of Roman Dacia (AD 106 to c. 271) in the Apuseni Mountains, centered on Alburnus Maior (Roșia Montană), run by a procurator aurariarum at Ampelum and guarded by legions XIII Gemina and V Macedonica.
Aurochs (site)
Aurochs is a zoo in the Pădurea Domnească Nature Reserve in Moldova, near Moara Domnească, open 8 AM–6 PM and named for the extinct wild cattle.
Austin J. Tobin Plaza
Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the World Trade Center's main public plaza in Lower Manhattan, named for the Port Authority executive director; original 1973 plaza with Koenig Sphere, now the 9/11 Memorial with twin reflecting pools.
Australian Convict Sites
Australian Convict Sites is a serial World Heritage property of eleven penal sites across Australia, inscribed in 2010 as the outstanding surviving example of British convict transportation.
Australian Department
The Australian Department is one of nine phytogeographic sections of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Georgia, growing Australian plants like eucalypts, acacias, and bottle trees.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte): serial UNESCO World Heritage property, inscribed 1994, pairing Riversleigh, Queensland (Oligocene-Miocene mammals) with Naracoorte, South Australia (Pleistocene megafauna), over 2,000 km apart.
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a Commonwealth reserve on Black Mountain in Canberra with more than 4,300 Australian native plant species, a herbarium, and a seed bank.
Auxanum
Auxanum (Anxanum, Greek Agxanon), ancient Frentanian town on the site of Lanciano, Abruzzo; a Roman municipium on the Via Traiana, mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy, occupied from the Neolithic and late Bronze Age.
Avatar Flight of Passage
Avatar Flight of Passage: 3D flying simulator at Pandora – The World of Avatar, Disney's Animal Kingdom, opened May 27, 2017; banshee link chairs, 10K/60fps Weta film, 192 riders at once, waits from six hours in 2017 to about an hour by 2024–2026.
Avatha
Avatha (al-Bakhra', Kherbit Al-Bakhra) is an archaeological site south of Palmyra, Syria: a Tetrarchic Roman fort of the Strata Diocletiana housing auxiliary cavalry, expanded into an Umayyad qasr where Caliph al-Walid b. Yazid was killed.
Avaza Aquapark
Avaza Aquapark (Awaza akwa park) is a water park in Turkmenistan's Avaza National Tourist Zone on the Caspian coast near Turkmenbashi. Opened July 2018 on about 30 hectares, it has a 41,000 m² indoor aquapark, an 800 m rafting canal, and a 1,640-seat amphitheatre.
Avebury
Avebury stone circle is a Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England, built about 4,600 years ago and containing the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world.
Aven Parc
Aven Parc (formerly Labyrinthe de Pont-Aven) is a family leisure park in Pont-Aven, South Finistère, Brittany, open April to September with 40+ attractions, the Accro Aven'ture net course, a corn maze, and summer fright nights and free concerts.
Aventura Parks
Aventura Parks is Dubai's largest outdoor zipline and treetop adventure park, in a 35,000 sqm Ghaf tree forest inside Mushrif Park, with 24+ ziplines, five graded circuits, escape games, and team-building programs.
Avezzano Roman villa
Avezzano Roman villa (villa romana di Avezzano, Macerine): a ~3,000 sqm Roman rustic villa found under the I Marsi shopping center, with tetrastyle atrium, Victory-on-biga mosaic, and oil and wine production sector.
Aviary 2
Aviary 2 (鳥たちのおうち2) is a bird exhibit in Ueno Zoo's Children's Zoo Step, Tokyo, housing Hinai chickens and Chabo bantams since December 2025; distinct from Hong Kong Park Aviary 2 and a Southern Pets cage model.
Avireri Vraem Biosphere Reserve
Avireri Vraem Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Avireri-Vraem), designated 15 September 2021, is Peru's seventh UNESCO biosphere reserve: 4,110,762 ha in Satipo and La Convención, 280 to 6,271 m, 458,701 inhabitants, core areas Otishi, Megantoni, Machiguenga and Ashaninka.
Avitacum
Avitacum: the Gallo-Roman villa of Sidonius Apollinaris in the Auvergne, probably near Aydat lake, described in his 460s letter Ep. II.2 to Domitius; inherited via his wife Papianilla, famed for its baths and modeled on Pliny's villa letters.
Avondale Mill Historic District
The Avondale Mill Historic District is a National Register historic district in Pell City, Alabama, preserving the remains of a cotton mill and its company-built mill village, listed in 2000.
Awarua Wetland
Awarua Wetland (Ramsar Site No. 102), Southland, New Zealand: ~20,000 ha coastal lagoon, peatland, swamp and estuary complex; Waituna Lagoon designated 1976 as New Zealand's first Ramsar site, extended and renamed 2008.