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Tokyo Dome City Attractions

Tokyo Dome City Attractions (東京ドームシティ アトラクションズ), formerly Korakuen Amusement Park, is a free-entry, pay-per-ride amusement park in Bunkyo, Tokyo, known for the Thunder Dolphin coaster threading the hubless Big-O Ferris wheel.

Tokyo German Village Children's Zoo

Tokyo German Village Children's Zoo (東京ドイツ村こども動物園), a children's zoo in Country Farm Tokyo German Village, Sodegaura, Chiba; about 130 animals of 9 species including guinea pigs, maras, goats, sheep, and wallabies, with feeding and scheduled petting sessions, 10:00-16:30, cash only.

Tokyo Medicinal Botanical Garden

Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden (東京都薬用植物園), in Kodaira, Tokyo, opened 1946 as a metropolitan medicinal plant cultivation field, renamed 1957; one of Japan's largest medicinal gardens, run by the Tokyo Shoyaku Association, free admission.

Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Park Zoo

Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Park Zoo (大島公園動物園) is a free-admission zoo on Izu Oshima, opened 1935, the only zoo in the Izu Islands, with a lava-built monkey mountain, walk-through Flying Cage, and rare-species breeding such as the Japanese wood pigeon.

Tokyo Sea Life Park

Tokyo Sea Life Park (Kasai Rinkai Suizokuen) is a public aquarium in Tokyo that opened in 1989 and is known for its doughnut-shaped tank of schooling bluefin tuna.

Tola Salrgarh South West of Siswa Tal Near Nepal India Border Mound

Tola Salrgarh is an ancient mound south-west of Siswa Tal near the Nepal–India border in Siddharth Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, protected as a monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Tolstaya Mogila

Tolstaya Mogila (Tovsta Mohyla) is a Scythian royal kurgan near Pokrov, Ukraine, excavated by Borys Mozolevsky in 1971, where the golden Scythian pectoral of the 4th century BC was found.

Tomadjan

Tomadjan (Tomaǰān, Tomājān) is a village and Iron Age cemetery site in the mountains south of Amlash, Gilan, northern Iran, a findspot of Amlash-type material within the Marlik culture, recorded in the Barrington Atlas and Pleiades.

Tomb

Tomb: a place of burial, from the Greek tymbos, covering the burial chamber and its marker. Related forms include crypt, mausoleum, cenotaph, and sarcophagus; examples span Egyptian pyramids to Humayun's Tomb.

Tomb (heroon) of King Perikles of Lycia

Heroon of Perikles at Limyra, also called the Mausoleum of Perikle: an early 4th-century BC Ionic temple-form tomb in Lycia for Perikles, dynast of Limyra, self-styled king of the Lycians, with Attic-inspired caryatids.

Tomb of Annedia and Lucius Caesius

Tomb of Annedia and Lucius Caesius (Tomb 29OS), an aedicula tomb in Pompeii's Porta Nocera necropolis; Annedia's will (CIL I, 3132) funded a monument for herself and her duovir husband, mid-1st century BC.

Tomb of Artaxerxes III

Tomb of Artaxerxes III: rock-cut Achaemenid royal tomb on Kuh-e Rahmat behind the Persepolis terrace, Iran, copying Darius I's Naqsh-e Rostam design; attributed by style to Artaxerxes III (r. 358-338 BCE), possibly Artaxerxes II.

Tomb of Aulus Hirtius

Tomb of Aulus Hirtius (Sepolcro di Aulo Irzio), funerary precinct under Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome, of the consul killed at Mutina in 43 BCE; long dated the earliest Roman opus testaceum building, now argued to be an Augustan remodelling.

Tomb of Caecilia Agathia

Tomb of Caecilia Agathia (FPND), a Roman funerary monument in the Fondo Pacifico necropolis of Pompeii, built by the freedwoman Caecilia Agathia for herself and her husband Lucius Caecilius Dioscurides, with gladiatorial game notices painted on its front.

Tomb of Caius Cartilius Poplicola

Tomb of Caius Cartilius Poplicola (Sepolcro di Cartilio Poplicola): monumental mausoleum at Ostia, built 25-20 BC outside the Porta Marina for the eight-time duovir Poplicola, 'friend of the people', with a naval-battle frieze.

Tomb of Christopher Columbus

Tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral: Mélida's 1891 mausoleum, made for Havana, holding remains moved from Valladolid, Santo Domingo, and Havana, authenticated by DNA in 2006 and 2024.

Tomb of Cossinia

Tomb of Cossinia (Tomba della Vestale Cossinia), Roman funerary monument at Tivoli, Italy, the only known tomb of a Vestal Virgin; found 1929, altar inscribed for Cossinia, 66 years a priestess of Vesta; adjacent girl's burial with ivory doll.

Tomb of Cyrus the Great

Tomb of Cyrus the Great (Mašhad-e Mādar-e Solaymān): gabled limestone mausoleum on a six-tiered plinth at Pasargadae, Iran, burial place of Cyrus II (d. 530 BCE), identified via Arrian and Strabo, later used as a mosque.

Tomb of Epaminondas

Tomb of Epaminondas (Τάφος Επαμεινώνδα), grave of the Theban general killed at Mantinea in 362 BC, described by Pausanias with a dragon shield and Hadrianic inscription, identified at Mili in Arcadia.

Tomb of Gaius Rabirius Postumus Libertus and family

Tomba dei Rabirii, Roman freedmen family tomb on the Via Appia, Rome, 13 BC–AD 5, altar-shaped, rebuilt by Canina; relief of Hermodorus, Rabiria Demaris, and priestess Usia Prima in Palazzo Massimo.

Tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus

The Tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus is a Roman funerary monument at Pompeii, built for a young aedile who died at 22, probably in 75–76 CE.

Tomb of Hilarus Fuscus

Tomb of Hilarus Fuscus (Sepolcro di Ilaro Fusco), Roman funerary monument on the Via Appia Antica, Rome, rebuilt in brick by Luigi Canina; Augustan relief of five busts, original in the National Roman Museum.

Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah

Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah (Baby Taj), Agra: 1622–1628 marble mausoleum built by Nur Jahan for her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg, first Mughal tomb fully clad in marble with pietra dura, precursor to the Taj Mahal.

Tomb of Karl Marx

Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery East, London: Grade I-listed 1956 bronze bust by Laurence Bradshaw on marble pedestal, holding Marx, Jenny von Westphalen, Eleanor, Harry Longuet, Helene Demuth; reburied 1954, vandalized 2019, CCTV since 2019.

Tomb of King Munmu

The Tomb of King Munmu (문무왕 해중릉) is the underwater burial site of King Munmu of Silla on Daewangam, a rock islet off Gyeongju, South Korea.

Tomb of Lison and Kallikles

Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles (ΛΥΣΩΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΚΛΕΟΥΣ), a small painted 2nd-century-BC Macedonian family tomb at Lefkadia near Mieza, with 22 inscribed ash niches, trompe-l'oeil peristyle decoration, and debated links to the Roman Second Pompeian Style.

Tomb of Lucius Ceius Serapio

Tomb of Lucius Ceius Serapio (Tomb 3OS), late Republican tholos-type tomb in the Porta Nocera necropolis, Pompeii, for the freedman banker Lucius Ceius Serapio and his wife Helvia, with a marble plaque inscription and large garden enclosure.

Tomb of Lucius Verginius Rufus

Tomb of Lucius Verginius Rufus: unfinished funerary monument at Alsium of the Roman general (14-97 CE) who refused the emperorship; known from Pliny's Letters 2.1, 6.10, and 9.19 and his Vindex epitaph.

Tomb of Marcus Alleius Minius

Schola-type Roman tomb outside Pompeii's Porta Stabia for Marcus Alleius Minius, duovir; burial place publicly granted by decree of the decuriones; excavated 1888-1890, buried by 62 CE earthquake debris, re-excavated 2001 and 2021-2024.

Tomb of Marcus Antonius Antius Lupus

Tomb of Marcus Antonius Antius Lupus (CIL VI 1343), a marble senatorial tomb on the Via Ostiensis at Rome's third milestone; its owner, executed under Commodus, had his memory restored by the Senate; recorded in a 1551 Lafreri engraving.