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Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide)
Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide), Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Schönholzer Heide: Berlin-Pankow military cemetery and memorial dedicated 7 November 1949, largest Soviet cemetery in Berlin with about 13,200 Red Army dead, 33.5 m syenite obelisk, Mother Heimat statue.
Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), Sowjetisches Ehrenmal im Treptower Park: Berlin war memorial and cemetery for Red Army soldiers of the Battle of Berlin, built 1946–1949, largest Soviet memorial in Germany, with Vuchetich's soldier statue.
Space Mountain
Space Mountain is Disney's indoor roller coaster in the dark, opened January 15, 1975 at Magic Kingdom, with two 3,000-foot tracks, 28 mph top speed, and versions at five Disney resorts.
Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom)
Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, is the original 1975 indoor dual-track roller coaster in the dark: 183 feet tall, 28 mph, Alpha and Omega tracks, single-file seating, no onboard audio, unlike later Disneyland, Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong versions.
Spanish Steps
The Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) is a Baroque staircase in Rome, built between 1723 and 1726 to a design by Francesco De Sanctis.
Sparata
Sparata (Спарата) was a Roman roadside horse-changing station on the Via Militaris between Serdica and Philippopolis, identified with modern Vakarel, Bulgaria, first recorded in 333–334 AD.
Speicherstadt
The Speicherstadt, Hamburg's historic warehouse district, was built between 1885 and 1927 on islands in the Elbe River and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Hamburg, Germany, comprising a historic warehouse district and an early modernist office quarter.
Spercheiai
Spercheiai (Σπέρχεια, also Sperchiae) was a Classical-Hellenistic fortified settlement of the Spercheios valley in ancient Thessaly, ravaged by the Aitolians in 198 BC per Livy, probably at Kastrorachi or Makrakomi in Phthiotis, Greece.
Sperry Chalet
Sperry Chalet is a 1913 stone backcountry hotel in Glacier National Park, Montana, built by the Great Northern Railway's Hill family, one of two surviving backcountry chalets, destroyed by the 2017 Sprague Fire and rebuilt by 2020.
Spetisbury Rings
Spetisbury Rings, also called Crawford Castle, is an Iron Age univallate hillfort of about 2 ha on the River Stour at Spetisbury, Dorset, known for a mass grave of at least 120 skeletons found in 1857 and scheduled as monument 1004563.
Sphoungaras
Sphoungaras is a Minoan cemetery on a hill about 300 meters north of the Bronze Age town of Gournia in eastern Crete, known for pithos burials in large clay storage jars.
Spirited Garden
Spirited Garden (생각하는정원, 思索之苑) is a private bonsai and stone garden in Jeju City, South Korea, built from 1968 by farmer Sung Bum-yeong on rocky wasteland; first nationally designated private garden, 2015.
Spiro Mounds
Spiro Mounds is a pre-Columbian Native American archaeological site in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, a major Caddoan Mississippian ceremonial center from about AD 850 to 1450.
Spitbank Fort
Spitbank Fort is a circular 19th-century sea fort in the Solent off Portsmouth, built between 1867 and 1878 and now a scheduled monument and luxury hotel.
Splash Mountain
Splash Mountain was a Disney log-flume ride themed to Song of the South, opening at Disneyland in 1989, Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland in 1992; the U.S. versions were rethemed as Tiana's Bayou Adventure, leaving Tokyo's as the only one.
Spolverino, Alberese
Spolverino (Alberese, Grosseto, Tuscany) is a Roman archaeological site on the Ombrone river: a manufacturing district of glass and metal recycling workshops and the riverine harbor of Rusellae, in use from the late 1st to late 5th century AD.
Spomenik
A spomenik is an abstract, high-modernist memorial built in socialist Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991 to commemorate Partisan fighters and victims of fascist occupation, with thousands since vandalized or destroyed.
Spoonley
Spoonley (Spoonley Wood Roman Villa) is a scheduled Romano-British courtyard villa near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, excavated in 1882 by Middleton and Bazeley; its visible mosaic is a Victorian replica, with finds at Sudeley Castle and the British Museum.
Sports fields
Sports fields: prepared grass or artificial-turf grounds for organized sport, from park pitches to stadiums. Covers their history in public parks, natural versus synthetic turf trade-offs, and access equity.
Springbrook National Park
Springbrook National Park: 6,558 ha Queensland park in the Gold Coast hinterland, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, with four sections, waterfalls, glow-worms, and the Natural Bridge arch.
Square Castan at Besançon
Square Castan (square archéologique Castan) is a free archaeological garden in Besançon's Saint-Jean quarter, displaying a 54 m Roman hemicycle, eight Corinthian columns, and an Arcier aqueduct basin, excavated from 1870 by Auguste Castan.
Square of Family, Love and Fidelity
Сквер Сямʼі, Любові і Вернасці (Square of Family, Love and Fidelity) is a public square in Soligorsk, Belarus, opened 1 September 2019, known for its Hen Ryaba children's art playground, fountains, and skate park.
Square Peristyle
Square Peristyle (Athens): large Hellenistic law-court building on the east side of the Athenian Agora, built c. 300 BC, 38.75 m per side, demolished c. 150 BC for the Stoa of Attalos.
Square with sculptures
Square with sculptures (Сквер з скульптурами) is a 24/7 public park on Prymorska Street 6А in Zatoka, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, with shade trees, benches, and photo sculptures near the Zatoka Lift Bridge.
Srah Srang
Srah Srang (ស្រះស្រង់), the "royal bath" of Angkor, Cambodia: a 700 by 300 m sacred reservoir begun in the 10th century under Rajendravarman II and remodeled by Jayavarman VII, with a sandstone landing terrace, central island temple, and famous sunrise views.
Sriayuthaya Lion Park
Sriayuthaya Lion Park, a private zoo opened in 2021 in Tha Ruea District, Ayutthaya, Thailand, near Bangkok, holding lions, tigers, ligers, liligers, and rare douc langurs, with animal shows and documented welfare criticism.
SS. Marcellino e Pietro
SS. Marcellino e Pietro (Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano), a parish and titular church in Rome's rione Monti, rebuilt 1751 by Benedict XIV and Girolamo Theodoli, tied to the martyrs' catacombs ad Duas Lauros and Constantine's funerary basilica.
St Anthony
St Anthony (San Antonio), a Portuguese carrack owned by King John III, wrecked 19 January 1527 at Gunwalloe, Cornwall; rediscovered 1981, designated protected wreck site 1982.
St Bees
St Bees is a seaside village and civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England, on the Irish Sea, known for St Bees Priory and the Coast to Coast Walk.