Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

The Medinas of the Historic Sultanates of the Comoros

The Medinas of the Historic Sultanates of the Comoros (Les médinas des Sultanats historiques des Comores), UNESCO World Heritage Site no. 1768, inscribed 2026: six Swahili sultanate towns, Moroni, Ntsudjini, Itsandra, Ikoni, Mutsamudu, and Domoni, Comoros's first World Heritage property.

The Narrows (Zion National Park)

The Narrows is the narrowest section of Zion Canyon, Utah, a Virgin River gorge with 1,000-foot walls 20–30 feet apart. Hiked bottom-up from Temple of Sinawava without a permit or top-down 16 miles with one; closed above 150 CFS.

The Nunnery (Guernsey)

The Nunnery (Les Murs de Bas, Lower Fort, Castrum Longini) is a Roman small fort at Longis Bay, Alderney, Bailiwick of Guernsey; 4th-century origin proven by 2008-2022 digs, later a blockhouse, governor's home, barracks, and German strongpoint.

The Oslo Ridge

The Oslo Ridge (Osloryggen) is a themed conservation bed in the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo, created in 2000 for the city's millennium, growing about 100 native inner-Oslofjord species including several threatened ones.

The Palisades (Hudson River)

The Palisades (Hudson River): diabase sill cliffs on the lower Hudson's west bank in New Jersey and New York, protected since 1900 by the bi-state Palisades Interstate Park Commission; National Historic and Natural Landmark.

The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand

Parforcejagtlandskabet i Nordsjælland: Danish UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) of three royal Baroque hunting forests, Store Dyrehave, Gribskov, and Jægersborg, laid out by Christian V with star-and-grid rides for par force hunting until 1777.

The Persian Caravanserai

The Persian Caravanserai (kārvān-sarā): a 2023 UNESCO serial World Heritage property of 54 roadside inns across Iran, spanning Achaemenid to Qajar times, inscribed under criteria (ii) and (iii).

The Persian Garden

The Persian Garden: Iranian tradition of walled, fourfold (Chahar Bagh) gardens from the 6th century BC; nine gardens inscribed by UNESCO in 2011 as serial World Heritage Site 1372, symbolizing Eden and the four Zoroastrian elements.

The Pinnacles (Western Australia)

The Pinnacles are thousands of limestone pillars up to 5 m tall in the Pinnacles Desert, Nambung National Park, Western Australia, about 200 km north of Perth. Formed by karst dissolution of Tamala Limestone, dated to about 102,000 years ago; Yued Traditional Owner country and a major tourist site.

The Plaza Macao Casino

The Plaza Macao, a boutique luxury integrated resort on Cotai, Macao, opened August 2008 by Sands China; features Plaza Casino, Four Seasons Hotel Macao (360 suites), Shoppes at Four Seasons mall, and 19 invitation-only Paiza Mansions.

The Porticoes of Bologna

The Porticoes of Bologna (I portici di Bologna), a UNESCO World Heritage serial site since 28 July 2021: twelve selected portico ensembles chosen from the city's 62 km of arcades, inscribed under criterion (iv), property 52.18 ha.

The Priory (near Chesfield, 1102211)

The Priory (NHLE 1102211), also Hitchin Priory, is a Grade I listed Hertfordshire country house near Chesfield, rebuilt circa 1775 in the Adam style with surviving 15th-century priory fabric, now a 52-bedroom hotel.

The Priory (near Chesfield, 1102499)

The Priory (NHLE 1102499), Priory Lane, Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire: Grade I listed house formed from the nave of an Augustinian priory founded 1205-7 by Richard de Argentien, granted to James Nedham c.1536, near the deserted village of Chesfield.

The Priory (near Ipswich)

The Priory near Ipswich: the Augustinian Priory of the Holy Trinity in Christchurch Park, founded about 1177, dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536; land sold to Paul Withypoll, Christchurch Mansion built 1548 on its ruins.

The Priory Church

The Priory Church, Brinkburn: Grade I listed c.1190-1220 Transitional church of an Augustinian priory in Northumberland, dissolved 1536, restored 1858-59 by Thomas Austin, now English Heritage.

The Queen's Megaron (Palace of Minos)

Queen's Megaron, Palace of Knossos, Crete: Evans-named room in the palace's east wing (Domestic Quarter), findspot of the Dolphin Fresco, with disputed original placement and Evans's concrete reconstruction.

The Refectory

The Refectory, Petworth Road, Easebourne, West Sussex: a Grade I listed 13th-century former refectory of Easebourne Priory, Augustinian canonesses dissolved 1536, now a house; listed 18 June 1959, entry 1026017.

The Rock Garden

The Rock Garden: a garden style growing alpines and small rock plants among stones; notable Norwegian examples include Fjellhagen in Oslo (opened 1989), Bergen (2001), and Kongsvoll (1924).

The Rose Garden

The Rose Garden (Hebrew: Gan HaVeradim), formally the Wohl Rose Garden, is a 19-acre public rose garden in Jerusalem opposite the Knesset, opened in 1981 and Israel's largest.

The Sanctuary of the Nymph Ionides

Sanctuary of the Nymph Ionides, ancient healing shrine of four nymphs (Kalliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaia, Iasis) on the river Kytheros near Herakleia, Elis, whose spring waters were believed to cure aches and pains; described by Strabo and Pausanias.

The Sanctuary of Vastogirardi

Samnite Pentri rural sanctuary at Piano dell'Angelo, Vastogirardi (IS), Molise, near a spring on Monte Capraro; prostyle tetrastyle temple of about 130-120 BC, probably dedicated to Hercules, excavated by Jean-Paul Morel.

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (Italy)

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (Sassi di Matera) is a 1993 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Basilicata, Italy: a 1,016-ha cave settlement of over 1,000 dwellings and rock churches, occupied since the Palaeolithic, evacuated in the 1950s and revived from the 1980s.

The Scandinavian Ridge

The Scandinavian Ridge (Skandinavisk rygg) is a rock-and-plant display in the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen, opened 25 May 2014, showing Norwegian mountain plants on granite, shale and other rocks collected across Norway.

The Seagull (site)

The Seagull (site): wreck of an 1848 Belfast-built iron sail-assisted paddle steamer, sunk by collision in 1868 off Horsey Gap, Norfolk; Scheduled Monument 1464587 since 2019, grouped with the Xanthe wreck.

The Sheldonian Theatre

The Sheldonian Theatre is the University of Oxford's principal assembly room and ceremonial hall on Broad Street, built between 1664 and 1669 to a design by Christopher Wren and funded by Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon.

The Simpsons Ride

The Simpsons Ride is a motion simulator attraction at Universal Studios Florida (opened May 15, 2008) and Universal Studios Hollywood (May 19, 2008), replacing Back to the Future: The Ride, set in Krustyland on an 80-foot dome, 40-inch height minimum.