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Tribugá-Cupica-Baudó Biosphere Reserve

Tribugá-Cupica-Baudó Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Tribugá-Cupica-Baudó), a UNESCO MAB site in Chocó, Colombia, designated June 2023; first on Colombia's Pacific coast, sixth nationally, about 546,605 ha with Emberá and Afro-Colombian communities.

Tribute in Light

Tribute in Light, also called Towers of Light, is an annual New York public art installation of two beams from 88 7,000-watt xenon bulbs honoring 9/11 victims, first shown March 11, 2002, and monitored to protect migrating birds.

Tricensimum

Tricensimum (Ad Tricensimum), Latin for 'at the thirtieth milestone,' names two Roman road stations: a mansio 30 miles from Aquileia (modern Tricesimo, Italy) and a mutatio on the Via Aquitania near Trèbes, France; related Tricensima fortress at Xanten.

Trimammium

Trimammium: Roman fort on the Lower Danube limes near Mechka, Ruse Region, Bulgaria, also called Trimamio on the Tabula Peutingeriana; garrisoned by cohors I Bracarorum and later milites Constantini, with a Moesian fleet base.

Trimontium

Trimontium was a major Roman fort complex at Newstead, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, one of the largest Roman forts north of Hadrian's Wall.

Trinasos

Trinasos (Greek: Τρινασός, also spelled Trinassos) was a small fortified settlement of ancient Laconia, Greece, on a promontory near the head of the Laconian Gulf beyond Gythium.

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios (Valle de los Ingenios), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, inscribed 1988: colonial city Trinidad (founded 1514) plus a 225.37 km2 valley of 75 former sugar mills worked by enslaved people.

Trinity Church Cemetery

Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City: Episcopal parish burial grounds including the 1697 Broadway churchyard holding Alexander Hamilton, Eliza Hamilton, Robert Fulton, and Francis Lewis, plus the 1842 Washington Heights cemetery with Audubon and John Jacob Astor.

Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Троице-Сергиева лавра)

Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Троице-Сергиева лавра), a Russian Orthodox monastery in Sergiev Posad near Moscow, founded 1337 by Sergius of Radonezh; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 with over 50 buildings.

Tripoli Zoo

Tripoli Zoo (حديقة حيوان طرابلس), also called Abu Salim Zoo, is a 45-hectare zoo in Tripoli, Libya. Closed since 2009 and later used as an SSA militia base, it was renovated and reopened on Eid al-Fitr, 20 March 2026.

Triumphal arch

Triumphal arch: freestanding monumental honorific gateway of Roman origin (fornix, arcus), with piers, vaulted passageways, and attic; from the Arch of Titus to the Arc de Triomphe, revived worldwide as a victory and civic commemorative monument.

Trollfjell UNESCO Global Geopark

Trollfjell UNESCO Global Geopark, designated April 2019, is the world's northernmost UNESCO Global Geopark, on the central Norwegian coast across six municipalities; 10,082 km², two-thirds ocean, with Torghatten, the Leka Ophiolite, and strandflat coast.

Tron Lightcycle Power Run

TRON Lightcycle Power Run (创极速光轮) is a launched motorbike-style roller coaster at Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland, opened 2016, the first Tron-themed coaster and fastest Disney coaster; a clone, TRON Lightcycle / Run, opened at Magic Kingdom in 2023.

Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark

Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark, Cyprus geopark designated 2015, protects the Troodos Ophiolite, the most complete exposed oceanic crust and upper mantle sequence, with 38 geosites, 84 trails, and Byzantine World Heritage churches.

Tropaeum Traiani (monument)

Tropaeum Traiani, the Trophy of Trajan at Adamclisi, Romania, is a Roman triumphal monument completed in 109 CE after the Dacian Wars, a 40 m cylindrical drum with 54 battle metopes, now a 1977 reconstruction.

Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum

Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum (熱帯・亜熱帯都市緑化植物園), a free-admission botanical garden in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, Okinawa, opened October 1990; about 6.8 ha with over 400 subtropical urban-greening species in eight sample zones.

Tropical aquarium (France)

Aquarium tropical de la Porte Dorée, Paris public aquarium created for the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Albert Laprade's Palais; about 4,400 animals of 350 species in 84 tanks, with crocodile pit heritage and conservation programs.

Tropical Aviary

Tropical Aviary (צפרייה טרופית) is the walk-through rainforest bird and animal exhibit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, with humid air, water misting, mangrove marshes, crowned pigeons, tegus, and the golden-handed tamarin; the name also covers similar exhibits at San Francisco, Fresno, and other zoos.

Tropical Butterfly House (Spain)

Tropical Butterfly House (Mariposario Tropical), a small butterfly zoo exhibit in Granada's Parque de las Ciencias science museum, Andalusia, Spain, supplied with pupae from Tenerife's CEN butterfly farm.

Tropical Dream Center

Tropical Dream Center (熱帯ドリームセンター), a 6-hectare botanical garden in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, Okinawa, opened 1986; five greenhouses with over 2,000 orchids year-round, baobabs first flowered in Japan, 36 m tower.

Tropical Flower and Plants Garden

Tropical Flower and Plants Garden (西双版纳热带花卉园) is a 4A-level tropical crop germplasm and flower park in Jinghong, Yunnan, opened in 1999 by the Yunnan Tropical Crops Research Institute, holding about 1,000 species across 25 scenic spots.

Tropical inner garden

Tropical inner garden (trooppinen sisäpuutarha): a heated glasshouse garden of tropical plants, exemplified by Botania in Joensuu, Finland, founded 1955, privately owned since 2018, Europe's only unfunded botanical garden.

Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area

中国热带植物(种质)资源收集区, Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area, a specialized living-collection zone founded in 2001 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; over 100 mu, ~1,400 accessions, 130 families, 1,000+ species, 20+ rare endangered species, part of the 万种园 project.

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra

The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra is a natural World Heritage site combining three national parks across 2.5 million hectares, on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2011.

Tropicpark

Tropicpark (Тропикпарк) is a contact exotarium in Yevpatoria, Crimea, at 43 Tokareva Street in a dragon-shaped pavilion, holding about 150 exotic species. A 2024 fire killed over 200 animals; the rebuilt five-floor exotarium reopened in 2026.

Trou de Billemont Tumulus

The Trou de Billemont Tumulus is a reconstructed Gallo-Roman burial mound at Antoing in Hainaut, Belgium, notable as the only regional tumulus combining a stone crown, corridor, niche vault, and outer enclosure.

Troulli tis Korfis

Troulli tis Korfis is the 30 by 40 m hilltop plateau on the Profitis Elias akropolis of Smari, Crete, with fortified Geometric-period (800-630 BC) megaron buildings, a sanctuary of Athina Ergani, and the proposed seat of Homeric Lyttos.

Troy

Troy (Ilion, Hittite Wilusa) is the ancient fortified city at Hisarlik, Turkey, near the Dardanelles, with nine occupation layers, Schliemann's 1870 excavations, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 1998.

Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve

Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Canada's Northwest Territories encompassing Great Bear Lake and part of its watershed, designated in 2016.

Tsar Bell (Царь-колокол)

Tsar Bell (Царь-колокол, Tsarsky Kolokol): monumental bronze bell cast 1733–1735 by Ivan and Mikhail Motorin for Empress Anna Ioannovna; about 202 tons, 6.14 m tall; cracked in the 1737 Kremlin fire, never rung, displayed in the Moscow Kremlin.