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Bagistanus (mountain)
Mount Bagistanus, Greek Bagistanon, is the ancient name of Bisotun (Behistun) in western Iran, a sacred mountain with Darius I's trilingual rock inscription and relief, a park of Semiramis, and a Heracles relief.
Bagni di Nerone
Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero), Terme di Nerone, Roman bath ruins in Largo Parlascio, Pisa; the only partially standing building of Roman Pisae, built in the late 1st century AD after Nero's death, linked to the Venuleii family.
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio
Bagnoli di S. Gregorio (Terme di Bagnoli) is a Roman villa and bath complex in contrada Bagnoli-San Gregorio near Capo d'Orlando, Sicily, discovered in 1986; six-room hypocaust baths with mosaics, built from the early 3rd century AD, damaged by a late-4th-century earthquake and reused in the Byzantine period.
Baguio Botanical Garden
Baguio Botanical Garden (also Igorot Village, formerly Imelda Park) is a 5-hectare public garden on Leonard Wood Road, Baguio City, Philippines, at 1,540 m elevation, featuring Igorot huts, themed international gardens, and a WWII Japanese tunnel.
Bah Bah
Bah Bah (بح بح) is a small amusement park in Taourit, Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia, with carousel, train, go-karts and trampolines; rated 3.4/381 reviews. Not the Bah-Bah village in the Philippines.
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee: UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2008, criteria iii and vi) of 26 buildings and sites in Acre and Haifa, Israel, centered on the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh and the Shrine of the Báb.
Bahía de Panamá
Bahía de Panamá (Panama Bay) wetland, Pacific coast of Panama; Ramsar site no. 1319 since 20 October 2003, 85,665 ha; national wildlife refuge under Ley 1 of 2015; key migratory shorebird site threatened by urban expansion.
Bahla Fort
Bahla Fort (قلعة بهلاء) is a vast mud-brick fortress in Bahla oasis, 25 km west of Nizwa, Oman, capital of the Banu Nebhan tribe from the 12th to 15th centuries and Oman's first UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed 1987.
Baiae
Baiae (Baia), Roman luxury spa resort in the Campi Flegrei on the Gulf of Naples near Bacoli; famed for thermal baths and elite villas, now partly submerged 5–13 m deep by bradyseism and protected as the Submerged Archaeological Park of Baia.
Baicao Garden
Baicao Garden (百草园) is the roughly 2,000-square-meter Zhou family vegetable garden behind Lu Xun's former home in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, immortalized in his essay "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Study" and now a free tourist site.
Baie de Khnifiss
Baie de Khnifiss (Khnifiss/Khenifiss lagoon) is a 26,310-ha Ramsar site (no. 209, designated 1980) on Morocco's southern Atlantic coast: the country's largest Atlantic lagoon, a major migratory bird stopover, and part of Khenifiss National Park.
Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre
Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre (Визит-центр «Байкал заповедный») is the visitor center of Baikal State Nature Reserve in Tankhoy, Buryatia, opened 11 January 2017; interactive Baikal expositions, sable enclosure, and eco-technologies.
Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve
Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve (Байкальский заповедник), designated 1986, is a 453,846 ha UNESCO MAB site on Lake Baikal's southern shore in Buryatia, Russia, centered on the 1969 Baikalsky zapovednik in the Khamar-Daban mountains.
Baima Natural Reserve
Baima Natural Reserve (白马雪山国家级自然保护区), or Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve, is a national protected area in Diqing, northwestern Yunnan, established 1983/1988, protecting the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey across 282,106 ha and 2343 vascular plant species.
Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve
Baishuijiang Biosphere Reserve (白水江), Wenxian County, Gansu, China: UNESCO MAB site (2000) around a 1978 national nature reserve protecting giant pandas in the Minshan Mountains; 213,750 ha, forest 85.9%, core zone holds over 75% of panda habitat.
Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area
Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area (APA da Baixada Maranhense), a 1,775,036 ha seasonally flooded Ramsar site (no. 1020, 2000) in Maranhão, Brazil, created by state decree in 1991, rich in aquatic macrophytes and waterfowl, pressured mainly by livestock.
Bajna Mound
Bajna Mound: ASI-protected archaeological mound at Bajna village, 6 km northwest of Mathura, India, known for Buddhist railing pillars and Kushan sculptures; distinct from prehistoric sites at Bajna, Hungary.
Bakggoch Folk Village
Bakggoch Folk Village (박꽃민속촌, Bakggochminsokchon) is a small theme park in Sinjeong-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, on Samsan-ro 30beon-gil near Yun Gallery and Jeongwon Folk Village.
Bakong
Bakong, also called Prasat Bakong, is a late ninth-century Hindu temple at Roluos near Siem Reap, Cambodia, built as the state temple of King Indravarman I and consecrated in 881.
Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark
Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark: a 3,244 km2 geopark in western Hungary around Lake Balaton and the Bakony Mountains, EGN/GGN member since 2012, UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, managed by the Balaton Uplands National Park Directorate.
Baku Entertainment Centre
Baku Entertainment Centre (Bakı Əyləncə Mərkəzi) names two Baku leisure developments: a 1998-opened Khatai district complex with bowling, SPA, and dining, and Chapman Taylor's 120,000 m² waterfront project that opened as Deniz Mall.
Bakytty Bala
Бақытты Бала (Kazakh "Happy Child") names several Kazakh children's initiatives: the 2018 Aktobe regional social project by Berdibek Saparbaev (4 billion tenge, 177 playgrounds), an Atyrau theme park, kindergartens, a summer camp, and a republican public association.
BALA park
BALA park names several unrelated entities: children's entertainment centers in Semey and Shelek, Kazakhstan; a residential development by BALA park s.r.o. in Šamorín, Slovakia; and Bala Park, a locality and island in Muskoka, Ontario.
Balamku
Balamkú (Balamku), "Temple of the Jaguar," is a Maya archaeological site in Calakmul municipality, Campeche, Mexico, known for its unique 550–600 AD modeled polychrome stucco frieze, officially reported in 1990 after looting.
Balangiga bells
The Balangiga bells are three church bells seized by US troops in 1901 from Balangiga, Eastern Samar, during the Philippine-American War and returned by the United States to the Philippines on December 11, 2018, after 117 years, two from Cheyenne, Wyoming, one from South Korea.
Balboa Park (San Diego)
Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre urban cultural park in San Diego, established 1868 as City Park, renamed 1910, shaped by the 1915-16 and 1935-36 expositions, home to 18 museums and the San Diego Zoo.
Bale Mountains National Park
Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP), in Ethiopia's Oromia region, is a 215,000-hectare World Heritage site (inscribed 2023) holding Africa's largest afro-alpine habitat, the Sanetti Plateau, Harenna Forest, and endemic species such as the mountain nyala and Ethiopian wolf.
Bali Wake Park
Bali Wake Park, Bali Wake Park Denpasar: cable wakeboarding park on a five-hectare lake near Benoa Harbour, opened 2015 by Kimo Rusna, with Aqualand inflatables; paused since February 2025 over Benoa land-use issues.
Ballanstra
Ballanstra: ancient Roman roadside station (mutatio) on the Naissus–Serdica road, listed in the Itinerarium Burdigalense (333 AD), identified with Kalotina, Bulgaria; also called Balanstra, a Dako-Mysian 'white river' name.
Balmuildy Roman Fort
Balmuildy (Medio) Roman Fort, an Antonine Wall fort on the River Kelvin near Glasgow, Scotland; one of only two stone-built Wall forts, built before the Wall under Lollius Urbicus, excavated by S. N. Miller 1912-14.