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The Dales
The Dales (Ramsar site 1225) is a 580-hectare wetland system of seven watercourses on western Christmas Island, listed 21 October 2002, holding all 20 of the island's land crab species and most of its surface water.
The Dream Valley
The Dream Valley (梦幻谷) is Hengdian World Studios' night film-and-TV experience theme park in Dongyang, Zhejiang, opened 2007, with five areas, a summer water world, and the Dream Tai Chi volcano show.
The Ecological and Botanical Garden in Damascus
The Ecological and Botanical Garden (الحديقة البيئية), or Eco Garden/Eco Park, is Syria's first botanical garden and eco-park, opened 2003–2005 beside the Damascus Citadel; about 2,500 m², 30 islands, 300 species, run by volunteers with a smoke-free café.
The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa
A UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 2024, comprising Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Pinnacle Point, and Sibhudu Cave, preserving evidence of modern human behavior from 162,000 years ago.
The Exchange TRX
The Exchange TRX is a 17-acre retail-led mixed-use development in Kuala Lumpur's Tun Razak Exchange financial district, opened 29 November 2023 by Lendlease (60%) and TRX City (40%), with a 1.3 million sq ft mall, 10-acre rooftop park, and Malaysia's first Apple Store and Kimpton hotel.
The Feris wheel
The Feris wheel (العجلة) is an OpenStreetMap-mapped theme park point of interest in Tiaret, Algeria, named for a Ferris wheel ride, near Rostom Amusement Park at 35.38699° N, 1.308° E.
The Fjord Coast UNESCO Global Geopark
The Fjord Coast UNESCO Global Geopark (Fjordkysten Regional- og Geopark) is a Norwegian geopark designated 22 April 2025, spanning about 450,000 ha across Solund, Hyllestad, Fjaler, Askvoll, and Sunnfjord, showcasing Caledonian mountain geology akin to the Himalayas and revived 5,000-year-old heathland sheep-grazing traditions.
The Flow Country
The Flow Country (Dùthaich nam boglaichean) is a blanket bog region in Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland, considered the world's largest and inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
The Frith
The Frith, also known as Pond Farm Hillfort, is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort near Silchester in Hampshire, England, probably used for seasonal livestock management.
The garden of the senses
The garden of the senses (Aistien puutarha, Sinnenas trädgård) is a sensory garden name shared by the 2017 Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden sensory garden in Helsinki and Stockholm's therapeutic Sinnenas trädgård, designed for touch, smell, taste, and accessibility.
The Gedeo Cultural Landscape
The Gedeo Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ethiopia inscribed in 2023 (criteria iii, v), is a 29,620 ha living agroforestry landscape of the Gedeo people, with layered enset and coffee cultivation, sacred forests, and megalithic stele clusters.
The Gordian Palace
The Gordian Palace (Le palais dit de Gordien) is a large Roman domus, about 69 by 74 m, at Volubilis, Morocco, built in the second century CE and later the Governor's palace in the Gordian period; distinct from the Phrygian palace at Gordion and Rome's Villa Gordiani.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is a pale-yellow gorge carved by the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and the subject of Thomas Moran's monumental 1872 painting.
The Grand View Garden Area of Shanghai
Shanghai Grand View Garden (上海大观园, Daguanyuan) is a 135-mu pseudo-classical garden in Qingpu District on Dianshan Lake, built 1980-1988 to recreate the garden in Dream of the Red Chamber, Luban Prize winner and 4A scenic spot.
The Great Spa Towns of Europe
The Great Spa Towns of Europe: transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed 24 July 2021, of eleven historic spa towns in seven countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, UK), built around mineral springs.
The Green Planet
The Green Planet Dubai: indoor tropical rainforest bio-dome at City Walk, opened 1 September 2016, designed by Grout McTavish Architects, built by Six Construct for Meraas. Over 3,000 plants and animals around a 25-m artificial tree; distinct from Dubai Aquarium and from Green Planet Industries.
The Henderson
The Henderson is a historic 16-room boutique hotel and bed and breakfast at 201 Third Avenue West in downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina, also known historically as the Aloah Hotel, Carson House, Hendersonville Inn, and Inn on Church. Built 1919-1921, it is the city's only purpose-built hotel still operating as a hotel and was National Register certified in February 1989.
The Hermitage (near Grimsby)
The Hermitage is a late 18th century root house, an ornamental garden building of red brick, tufa, and tree trunk pillars in Brocklesby Park near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, unusually listed at Grade I.
The Hermitage (near Milton Keynes)
The Hermitage, also called Shepherd's Cove, is a Grade I listed sham-ruin folly at Stowe Landscape Gardens near Milton Keynes, built before 1732 by Kent, with decoration inspired by Spenser's Faerie Queene.
The Hermitage (near Wakefield)
The Hermitage, Southgate, Pontefract (Wakefield district, West Yorkshire): a Grade I listed 1386 rock-cut medieval hermitage and 1432 oratory under the former Pontefract General Infirmary, with a Death carving, well staircase, and Heritage at Risk status.
The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
UNESCO World Heritage site (1999, criteria iii, iv, vi) on Pátmos, Greece: the fortified Monastery of Saint John the Theologian founded 1088, the Cave of the Apocalypse, and the medieval settlement of Chorá.
The Historic Centre of Odesa
The Historic Centre of Odesa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed and danger-listed 2023, criteria ii and iv), is the classicist grid-planned core of Ukraine's Black Sea port, marked by eclectic 19th-century architecture and wartime missile damage.
The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi
Gedi, also written Gede, is a ruined Swahili town in Kilifi County, Kenya, occupied from the 10th to the 17th centuries and made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.
The House of the Masks
The House of the Masks is the shared modern name of several ancient buildings: a Hellenistic peristyle house on Delos with a 9.12 x 7.09 m mask mosaic, Roman houses at Solunto and Sousse, and Kabah's Codz-Poop.
The Issyk-kul State Nature Reserve with the Issyk-kul Lake
The Issyk-kul State Nature Reserve with the Issyk-kul Lake (Ramsar site 1231) protects Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul, a 626,439 ha unfrozen saline high-mountain lake, key wintering ground for up to 70,000 waterbirds with 7 endemic fish.
The Kievan Rus Park
The Kievan Rus Park (Парк «Київська Русь») is a historical theme park in Kopachiv village, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, building a full-scale reconstruction of Ancient Kyiv of the 5th–13th centuries on over 20 hectares, with ramparts, wooden walls, museums, and living history events.
The Latvia's State Forests Nature Park in Tērvete
Latvia's State Forests Nature Park in Tērvete (Tērvetes dabas parks), a Natura 2000 nature park in Dobele municipality founded 1957, LVM-managed since 2000, with Anna Brigadere fairytale trails, ancient pines, and three Semigallian castle mounds.
The lichen garden
The lichen garden (Jäkäläpuutarha, Lavträdgården) is a 2016 lichen display at Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, built from salvaged lichens, stones, and benches; similar lichen gardens exist in Australia, Scotland, and India.
The Maison Carrée of Nîmes
The Maison Carrée of Nîmes, a pseudoperipteral hexastyle Corinthian Roman temple built in the 1st century CE in Nemausus, dedicated to Gaius and Lucius Caesar, UNESCO-listed in 2023.
The Marais
The Marais (Le Marais) is a historic Paris district in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, a 126-hectare protected heritage site since 1964, known for hôtels particuliers, the place des Vosges, museums, and its old Jewish quarter.