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balneum Caesaris
balneum Caesaris, a Roman bath in ancient Rome known only from its inscription on the Severan Marble Plan (Forma Urbis Romae, fragments 43ab/49) and possibly the Historia Augusta; perhaps the palace baths where Didius Julianus was murdered.
Baltic Exchange (building)
The Baltic Exchange building, 24-28 St Mary Axe, City of London: 1903 Smith and Wimble neo-classical Grade II exchange hall, bombed by the IRA in 1992, demolished 1998 for the Gherkin.
Bam and its Cultural Landscape
Bam and its Cultural Landscape (Arg-e Bam), UNESCO World Heritage site in Kerman Province, Iran, inscribed 2004, danger-listed 2004–2013 after the 2003 earthquake; Achaemenid origins, Silk Roads citadel of chineh and khesht earthen architecture, qanāt oasis.
Bamanpukur Mound
Bamanpukur Mound, also Ballal Dhipi, is an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Bamanpukur, Nadia, West Bengal, notified in 1920 as Ruins of Fort; 1980s excavations revealed a 13,000 sq.m brick temple complex of the 8th-12th centuries CE.
Bamburgh Castle
Bamburgh Castle, Bebbanburg, a Grade I listed Northumberland castle on a volcanic dolerite outcrop; Northumbrian royal seat from the sixth century, restored by Lord Armstrong and C.J. Ferguson, 1894–1904.
Bamin Garden
Bamin Garden (八闽园) is a 160-mu botanical and cultural garden in the northeast of Xiamen University's Xiang'an campus, Fujian. Opened 5 April 2021, it holds about 1,500 plant species and ten plazas representing Fujian's nine cities and one area.
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site, a prehistoric habitation and burial mound in Udon Thani, Thailand, inscribed by UNESCO in 1992; key facts include its 1966 discovery, 1974–75 Penn Museum excavations, and disputed Bronze Age chronology.
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest (สวนพฤกษศาสตร์บ้านเพ), Rayong, Thailand: a 625-rai coastal botanic garden and beach forest, founded 1974 as Phe Arboretum, renamed 2013, free entry, DNP-managed.
Bañados del Este Biosphere Reserve
Bañados del Este Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in southeastern Uruguay designated in 1976 and redefined in 2004, covering about 1.25 million hectares of wetlands, coastal lagoons, and Butia palm savannas across four departments.
Bañados del Este y Franja Costera
Bañados del Este y Franja Costera, Ramsar site no. 290, is Uruguay's first Ramsar wetland (1984), 407,408 ha of coastal lagoons and marshes in Rocha and Treinta y Tres, home to 247 bird species.
Bañados del Izozog y el río Parapetí
Bañados del Izozog y el río Parapetí, Ramsar site 1087 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designated 17 September 2001; a 615,882-ha wetland where the Parapetí River ends in a tectonic depression, linked to the Amazon basin and vital to the Izoceño-Guaraní people.
Bañados del Río Dulce y Laguna de Mar Chiquita
Bañados del Río Dulce y Laguna de Mar Chiquita is a 996,000-hectare Ramsar wetland in Córdoba, Argentina, home to South America's largest saline lake and three flamingo species.
Banana park
Banana park (ばなな公園; Банана парк) names several places: a banana-themed playground in Nerima, Tokyo; a Russian indoor children's park chain founded 2014 in Surgut with 7 parks in 5 regions; a closed Gran Canaria attraction; and a Copenhagen amusement park.
Banc d'Arguin National Park
Banc d'Arguin National Park (Parc national du Banc d'Arguin), Mauritania's Atlantic desert-coast park created in 1976, a Ramsar site since 1982 and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1989, famed for over two million migratory waders and West Africa's largest fish nursery.
Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve
Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, a Mexican protected atoll reef 30 km off Quintana Roo in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; declared 1996, UNESCO MAB 2003, Ramsar 2004, managed by CONANP with lobster and conch cooperatives.
Bancroft Roman villa
Bancroft Roman villa, formerly Bradwell Villa, is an excavated winged-corridor Roman villa in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, built about AD 100, burned about AD 180, rebuilt about AD 275, with mosaics, two bath suites, a walled garden, fishpond and nearby temple mausoleum.
Bandareswar Mound
Bandareswar Mound, Cuttack district, Odisha: an ASI-protected ancient Buddhist temple ruin site in the Dharmasala cluster near Langudi, with stupa remains spanning the 6th century BC to 10th century AD; front side fenced in 1989-90.
Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument: NPS unit near Los Alamos, New Mexico, protecting 33,000+ acres of Ancestral Pueblo ruins (Tyuonyi, Long House, cavates) in Frijoles Canyon, established 1916 and named for Adolph Bandelier.
Bandhavgarh National Park
Bandhavgarh National Park (Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve) is a 1968-established tiger reserve in Umaria, Madhya Pradesh, India, famed for its high Bengal tiger density, the 2,000-year-old Bandhavgarh Fort, and the 1951 capture of white tiger Mohan.
Bandipur National Park
Bandipur National Park (Bandipur Tiger Reserve) is a 1469.69 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka, India, among the first nine Project Tiger reserves of 1973, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with 150 tigers (2022), 3,047 elephants, and the country's first eco-sensitive zone.
Banditaccia necropolis, Caere
Banditaccia is the main Etruscan necropolis of ancient Caere (Cerveteri, Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004 with thousands of house-like tombs in a city-like plan, used from the 9th century BC.
Băneasa
Băneasa names several Romanian places: communes in Constanța and Giurgiu counties, a Bucharest neighborhood with Pădurea Băneasa forest, and the Teleorman village at the largest Roman fort on the Limes Transalutanus.
Banff National Park
Banff National Park, Canada's first national park (1885 hot springs reserve, 1887 Rocky Mountains Park Act), is a Rocky Mountain protected area in Alberta, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site, with 4.5 million 2025 visitors.
Bangama Mound
Bangama Mound, Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh, site of ruins of a large Chandella-period temple, a centrally protected ASI monument near Phatera on the Betwa, with a Vishnu statue, brick enclosure wall, and yajna Kunda.
Banganarti
Banganarti is an archaeological site in Sudanese Nubia on the Nile, about 10 km upriver of Old Dongola, known for two superimposed medieval churches and pilgrims' wall inscriptions.
Bangial
Bangial (بنگیال) is a zoo in Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan, at 32.82635 N, 74.03786 E near Ladian and Samrala; distinct from the Bangial tribe and villages of Rawalpindi.
Bangkang Entertainment Company
邦康娱乐公司 (Bangkang Entertainment Company) was a casino in Pangkham, capital of Myanmar's Wa Self-Administered Division; run by Wang Yong under a Wa government tax contract and later part of Yongyuan Group, it closed in 2005 amid China's anti-gambling campaign.
Bangudae Petroglyphs
The Bangudae Petroglyphs (반구대 암각화) are prehistoric rock engravings on a cliff in Ulsan, South Korea, whose whale-hunting scenes are the oldest known depictions of whaling in the world.
Bankhead
Bankhead, two Roman military sites in Dumfriesshire, Scotland: a small triple-ditched fortlet near Kirkconnel, excavated 1959 and 1963, and superimposed Flavian forts with annexes at Dalswinton, reassessed in 2019.
Banna
Banna (Birdoswald Roman Fort) is a Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, Cumbria, built after AD 122, garrisoned by a cohort of over 800 men, occupied through the Roman period and into the post-Roman 6th century.