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Bannerghatta National Park
Bannerghatta National Park, a 1974-notified protected area about 22 km south of Bengaluru, Karnataka, also called Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), with zoo, safari, butterfly park, elephant sanctuary, and a contested eco-sensitive zone.
Bannerghatta Zoo
Bannerghatta Zoo, the zoo unit of Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP/BBBP), is a 731.88-hectare zoo, safari, butterfly park, and rescue centre 22 km south of Bengaluru, run by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka, holding over 2,300 animals of 102 species.
Banrock Station Wetland Complex
Banrock Station Wetland Complex: 1,375 ha Ramsar wetland (listed 21 October 2002) on the Murray River floodplain, Riverland, South Australia; first SA Ramsar site entirely on private land, managed by Accolade Wines, restored through wet-dry cycling.
Bantimurung Bulusaraung - MA'RUPANNE Biosphere Reserve
Bantimurung Bulusaraung - MA'RUPANNE (Cagar Biosfer Ma'rupanne) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, designated 14 June 2023; 723,669 ha, 1.5 million people, Maros-Pangkep tower karst, and a butterfly-rich national park core.
Baobab kids
Baobab kids names several unrelated children's organizations: a Canadian kids yoga company by Karen LeSage, French music channel Baobab Kids TV, a Ukrainian theme park, a UK company, an Australian day care, and a Malmö festival.
Baoding Zoo
Baoding Zoo (保定市动物园), Hebei, China: a 13-hectare city zoo founded in 1921 as Cao Kun's Chengnan Park, renamed People's Park in 1952, holding 130-plus species, Ming wall remains, and Yuanmingyuan Taihu rocks.
Baotianman Biosphere Reserve
Baotianman Biosphere Reserve (寶天曼), Neixiang County, Henan, China: UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2001, first in Henan; transition-zone forest between subtropical and warm temperate zones with 2,925 plant and 359 vertebrate species.
Baotou Amusement Park
Baotou Amusement Park (包头乐园), opened September 2007 in Kundulun District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, is a 560-million-yuan theme park with eight themed zones, about 60 rides, and the 88-meter "Baotou Eye" Ferris wheel.
Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)
Al-Maghtas (المغطس), Bethany Beyond the Jordan, is a Jordanian UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) on the Jordan River's east bank, 9 km north of the Dead Sea, accepted by most Christian Churches as where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
Baptistery of Butrint
Baptistery of Butrint (Pagëzimorja e Butrintit): circular late antique baptistery in Vlorë County, Albania, discovered by Ugolini in 1928, adapted from a Roman bath in the 5th–6th century, famed for its seven-band mosaic floor.
Bar Hill Fort Bathhouse
Bar Hill Fort Bathhouse, Roman bathhouse inside the NW angle of Bar Hill Fort on the Antonine Wall near Twechar, Scotland; 38 m by 5.5 m, hypocaust-heated, excavated 1902-05 and 1978-82, later reused as a pottery kiln site.
Bar Hill Roman Fort
Bar Hill Roman Fort, near Twechar, Dunbartonshire, is the highest fort on the Antonine Wall and the only one detached from it, set about 30 m south of the rampart. Excavated 1902-05, its well yielded shoes, coins and an altar.
Bara Mound
Bara Mound: ASI centrally protected 'small high mound, ancient site of a large Hindu Temple' at Bara, Tehsil Bara, Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh; protected 1920, now under Sarnath Circle.
Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj Mound
Baraipur, Khajuhi Ganj: mauza at Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, holding the ASI centrally protected Ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath (Dhamek Stupa, Jagat Singh Stupa, Major Kittoe's monastery), protected 1928, excavated by Oertal 1904-05.
Barbarathermen at Trier
Barbarathermen (Barbara Baths), Roman thermae in Trier's Augusta Treverorum, built mid-2nd century AD, second largest baths of the Roman Empire at ~42,000 m2, used until the 5th century, UNESCO World Heritage since 1986.
Barbegal
Barbegal: second-century CE Roman watermill complex near Arles, France, with 16 overshot waterwheels in two rows of eight, the largest known industrial hydropower complex of antiquity, producing an estimated 4.5 to 25 tons of flour per day until the mid-third century.
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains, also called the Barberton Greenstone Belt property, is a 2018 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mpumalanga, South Africa, preserving 3.6–3.25-billion-year-old volcanic and sedimentary rocks, komatiites, and early-life evidence.
Barboşi
Barboși (also Bărboși) is a Roman-period archaeological site on the Tirighina plateau in Galați county, Romania, where a Roman castellum built 101–106 AD and a large necropolis overlie a Geto-Dacian fortified settlement.
Barburgh Mill Roman fortlet
Barburgh Mill Roman fortlet: Antonine-period (c. 142-58) fortlet in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, discovered by aerial photography in 1945 and fully excavated in 1971; 29.50 by 28.50 m, housing an infantry century, guarding a Roman road.
Barbury Castle
Barbury Castle is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort with a bowl barrow on the Marlborough Downs near Swindon, Wiltshire, on the Ridgeway. Two rampart rings enclose c.4.5 ha; finds include an Iron Age blacksmith's hoard; occupied by the US Army in WWII.
Barcombe Hill Roman Quarry
Barcombe Hill Roman Quarry: Roman sandstone quarries near Vindolanda, Northumberland, on Hadrian's Wall. Largest is Barcombe 3, with phallus carving, XIII quarry mark, and an 1837 find of 63 Hadrianic coins.
Barcombe Hill Roman Signal Station
Barcombe Hill Roman Signal Station: late 1st-century AD Roman turf-and-timber signalling tower on Barcombe Hill, Northumberland, inside an Iron Age hillfort near Vindolanda, part of the Stanegate frontier; also the Barcombe B tower at Birkshaw.
Bard-i Nishande
Bard-i Nishande (Bard-e Nesanda, برد نشانده), "erected stone," is an ancient Elymaian sanctuary complex in Khuzestan, Iran, 18 km northwest of Masjed-e Solayman, with a double terrace, tetrastyle temple, castle, and town, excavated by Ghirshman 1964-1966.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve (UNESCO dossier 973) protects the fortified medieval historic core of Bardejov, Slovakia, and its Jewish suburb; inscribed 2000 under criteria (iii) and (iv), 23.6 ha, reserve declared 1950.
Bardown Roman industrial site
Bardown Roman industrial site: Romano-British ironworks at Wadhurst, Sussex (TQ 663293) on the River Limden, excavated by Henry Cleere 1960-68, producing an estimated 8,000-10,000 tons of iron, AD 120-250, scheduled 2022.
Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve
Barguzinskyi Biosphere Reserve (Баргузинский заповедник), Russia's first zapovednik, founded 1916 on Lake Baikal's northeast shore to save the sable; UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1986, World Heritage since 1996.
Bariduum
Bariduum (Bariduo on the Peutinger Table) was a Roman road station in Dalmatia on the Salona–Servitium road, identified with Livno, Bosnia; home area of the Baridustae miners.
Barker Ranch
Barker Ranch (Thomason/Barker Ranch) is a five-acre former mining retreat in Goler Wash, Death Valley National Park, California, built in the 1930s by the Thomasons and enlarged by the Barkers; it was the Manson Family's last hideout, raided in 1969, searched for graves in 2008, and burned in 2009.
Barking Abbey
Barking Abbey (St Mary and St Ethelburga's) was England's first nunnery, founded c.666 by Erkenwald, refounded c.965 after Danish destruction, the leading Benedictine nunnery until its 1539 dissolution; ruins survive at Barking, London.
Barm-i Dilak
Barm-i Dilak (برم دلک, Barm-e Delak), Sasanian rock-relief site with a spring about 10 km southeast of Shiraz, Iran; two reliefs of Bahram II's reign: a man presenting an iris flower to a woman, and the king with a dignitary, with no fire altar.