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Axiopolis
Axiopolis (Ἀξιούπολις), ancient Danube fortress at Hinog Hill near Cernavodă, Romania; Hellenistic emporium, Roman naval-commercial center of the nautae universi Danuvii, 6th-century bishopric, later Byzantine stronghold.
Ayios Photios
Ayios Photios (Agios Fotios) is a sanctuary site near Athienou, Cyprus, belonging to ancient Golgoi; a male-god (Apollo) sanctuary dug by Cesnola in 1870, source of the Met's Cesnola limestone sculpture.
Ayutthaya Elephant Palace & Royal Kraal
The Ayutthaya Elephant Palace & Royal Kraal (เพนียดคล้องช้าง) is a historic royal elephant enclosure at Phaniat near Ayutthaya, Thailand, and Thailand's only surviving elephant kraal.
azadi cafe
azadi cafe names several Middle East venues: a casino in Zakho, Dohuk Governorate, Iraq (Kurdish "gazino azadi"), a cafe in Tablo Mall, Erbil, plus Cafe Azadi in Chabahar and an internet cafe in Tabriz, Iran.
Azores UNESCO Global Geopark
The Azores UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque Açores) is a UNESCO Global Geopark covering the nine islands of the Azores, created in 2010 and the first archipelagic geopark.
Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve
Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve (South Maalhosmadulu Atoll), Maldives' first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated 28 June 2011; 144,024 ha, 75 islands, ~250 coral and 1,200 fish species, Hanifaru Bay manta ray gatherings.
Bab Al Balad Amusement Park
Bab Al Balad Amusement Park (مدينة ملاهي باب البلد) is a family-friendly theme park in Hama, Syria, at 35.12288°N, 36.75417°E, near the Ja'far bin Abi Talib mosque, offering rides and green spaces; named for a vanished city gate.
Baba Hatim Ziyarat
Baba Hatim Ziyarat (بابا حاتم), also Baba Hatem, is an 11th-century Ghaznavid brick mausoleum in Jauzjan Province, Afghanistan, 54 km west of Mazar-i Sharif, built for the otherwise unrecorded noble Salar Khalil and studied since its 1958 discovery.
Babur Eco Park
Babur Eco Park (Central Ecopark named after Zahiriddin Babur) is a Tashkent eco-park in Mirzo-Ulugbek district, opened 2017 on the old zoo site; eco-materials, lake with Island of Lovers, no amusement rides.
Babylon Fortress
Babylon Fortress (Qasr al-Sham, Qasr al-Rum), Roman fortress in Old Cairo, Egypt, built by Diocletian around AD 300 around Trajan's Nile-Red Sea canal harbor; fell after a seven-month Arab siege in 641, shaping al-Fustat and Coptic Cairo.
Baccanae
Baccanae (ad Vacanas, modern Baccano) was a Roman mansio, a road station of the cursus publicus on the Via Cassia, 12 miles from Sutrium and 21 from Rome; excavated from 1979 with tabernae, baths, and a porticoed forum.
Back to the Future: The Ride
Back to the Future: The Ride was Universal's OMNIMAX motion simulator based on the film trilogy, with eight-passenger DeLorean vehicles; it ran at Universal Studios Florida (1991-2007), Hollywood (1993-2007), and Japan (2001-mid-2010s).
Backo Podunavlje Biosphere Reserve
Bačko Podunavlje Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in north-western Serbia designated in 2017, covers 176,635 ha of Danube floodplain, centers on Gornje Podunavlje, and joined the Mura-Drava-Danube Transboundary Biosphere Reserve in 2021.
Baconao Biosphere Reserve
Baconao Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Baconao), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 1987 on Cuba's south-eastern coast near Santiago de Cuba, covering 94,416 ha with Sierra de la Gran Piedra, caves, over 1,900 flowering plants and coastal-montane ecosystems.
Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes
Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes (巴丹吉林沙漠——沙山湖泊群), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2024 in Inner Mongolia, China: world's tallest stabilized mega-dunes (460 m relative relief), 144 inter-dunal lakes, criteria vii and viii.
Badaling Bear Garden
Badaling Bear Garden (八达岭熊乐园), also Badaling Bear Park, is a state-owned bear park in Yanqing, Beijing, near the Great Wall. Opened June 27, 1993, it holds about 380 Asiatic black, brown, and sun bears and has drawn welfare criticism.
Badbury Rings (United Kingdom)
Badbury Rings is a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on a chalk knoll in Shapwick, Dorset, England, with three ramparts, 5th-6th century reoccupation, National Trust ownership, and scheduled monument status since 1924.
Badgingarra National Park
Badgingarra National Park, Western Australia: A Class Reserve 31809, about 13,121 ha in the Shire of Dandaragan, straddling Brand Highway 216 km north of Perth; kwongan heath wildflowers, Eucalyptus pendens, Iain Wilson Nature Trail.
Badiar Biosphere Reserve
Badiar Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site (designated 2002) in northern Guinea around Badiar National Park, adjacent to Senegal's Niokolo-Koba; savanna and dry-forest zoning with core, buffer, and transition areas.
Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park is a 244,000-acre national park in southwestern South Dakota, protecting eroded White River Badlands buttes, Oligocene fossil beds, mixed-grass prairie, bison, and reintroduced black-footed ferrets; monument from 1939, national park since 1978.
Badopal Mound
Badopal Mound (Ancient Mounds, Badopal), ASI-protected archaeological mounds at Badopal, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, in the dry Ghaggar bed; a leading Rang Mahal culture site, notified 1951, register N-RJ-47.
Badr Al-Duja Family Oasis
Badr Al-Duja Family Oasis (واحة بدر الدجى العائلية), a free 8-dunam family park numbered 29 in Karbala's Southern Green Belt, opened June 3, 2026 for Eid al-Ghadir, built by the Abbasid Holy Shrine with gardens, waterfalls, playgrounds, and a subsidized restaurant.
Baebiana
Baebiana: ancient vicus in southwestern Etruria on the Via Aurelia between Lorium and Alsium, as Bebiana on the Tabula Peutingeriana; distinct from the Ligures Baebiani of Samnium and the empress Afinia Gemina Baebiana.
Baekje Cultural Land
Baekje Cultural Land (백제문화단지) is Korea's largest history theme park, in Buyeo County, South Chungcheong. Built 1994 to 2010 on 3,276,000 square meters, it reconstructs Sabi Palace, Neungsa Temple, and Baekje kingdom life.
Baekje Historic Areas
Baekje Historic Areas (백제역사유적지구), UNESCO World Heritage serial property inscribed 2015: eight archaeological sites, 475–660 CE, in Gongju, Buyeo, and Iksan, South Korea, remains of the late Baekje kingdom's capitals.
Bafing-Falémé
Bafing-Falémé: Ramsar site no. 1719 in Guinea's Labé region, designated 16 October 2007, 517,300 ha of gallery forest and savannah on the upper Bafing/Falémé rivers, home to West Africa's largest chimpanzee population and a GEF conservation landscape.
Bafing-Source
Bafing-Source (Ramsar site no. 1720) is a 317,200-hectare Ramsar wetland in Guinea's Mamou region, designated 16 October 2007, protecting the Fouta Djallon highland source area of the Bafing River, the Senegal River's major tributary.
Bagan (ပုဂံ)
Bagan (ပုဂံ), Myanmar's Buddhist monument landscape on the Ayeyarwady River, World Heritage since 2019: eight components, 3,595 recorded monuments, 11th-13th century capital, brick temples, earthquake conservation.
Bagh Talar Toranj
Bagh Talar Toranj (باغ تالار ترنج) is a casino in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, near Mashhad and Toos, at 36.36491°N 59.57932°E, close to Kashaf village and Razavi Hospital; distinct from same-named venues in Sirjan and Isfahan.
Baghlar Baghi
Baghlar Baghi (باغلارباغی), also Baghlarbaghi, is a 22-hectare recreational complex in Tabriz, Iran, opened in 1994, holding the largest amusement park in Tabriz and northwestern Iran plus a zoo, bird garden, and dolphinarium.