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Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park (Parc national des Virunga), Africa's oldest park, founded 1925 as Albert National Park in eastern DRC; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979, in Danger since 1994, home to a third of the world's mountain gorillas and threatened by the M23 conflict.
Vis Archipelago UNESCO Global Geopark
Vis Archipelago UNESCO Global Geopark (Viski arhipelag) is a Croatian geopark designated 17 April 2019, covering Vis, Biševo, Sveti Andrija, Brusnik, Jabuka, and Palagruža; 666,100 ha, karst and volcanic islands, 3,504 residents.
Visigothic necropolis, Duratón
Visigothic necropolis of Duratón (necrópolis visigoda de Duratón), Los Mercados site, Sepúlveda, Segovia: early medieval Castilian cemetery excavated by Antonio Molinero in 1940, type site of the Duratón-Madrona furnished-burial group, declared a Spanish archaeological zone in 1994.
Visimskiy Biosphere Reserve
Visimskiy Biosphere Reserve (Висимский заповедник), a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2001 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; a strictly protected southern taiga reserve in the Middle Urals, established 6 July 1971, covering 33,508 hectares.
Vismaya Water and Amusement Park
Vismaya Water and Amusement Park, Parassinikadavu, Kannur, Kerala; opened August 2008; run by Malabar Tourism Development Cooperative Ltd, India's only cooperative-sector water theme park; 30 acres, 55+ rides, solar-powered, rainwater-fed.
Vita Garden Mini-Zoo
Vita Garden Mini-Zoo, a small zoo and cafe at the Fairy Stream canyon in Phan Thiet, Vietnam, kept hedgehogs, monkeys, alligators, snakes, and birds; admission was 10,000 VND, and it is now listed temporarily closed.
Vithal Deva Mound
Vithal Deva Mound, or Ancient Remains at Vithal Deva (Maliwasa), Banswara district, Rajasthan: a centrally protected ASI site of ruined 12th-13th century Hindu and Jaina brick temples between two hillocks, notified in 1951.
Vitricium
Vitricium (also Utricio, Bitricium) was a Roman mansio of the Salassi between Aosta and Ivrea, identified with modern Verrès in the Aosta Valley, with a Roman bridge over the Evançon.
Vittel
Vittel is a spa commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France, giving its name to a Nestlé mineral water bottled there since the nineteenth century.
Vittimose
Vittimose: Roman villa rustica near Buccino, Salerno, in the ancient territory of Volcei, excavated 1969–1970 by Wesleyan University under Dyson; occupied 2nd century BC to 4th century AD, with Republican polygonal-masonry phase, tablinum, late bath quarter, and a Silenus mould with Oscan inscription.
Vivekananda Rock Memorial
Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu: 1970 granite monument on a rock 500 m offshore where Swami Vivekananda meditated in December 1892; built under Eknath Ranade, managed by the Vivekananda Kendra, over two million annual visitors.
Vivisco
Vivisco, also Viviscus or Vibisco, the Roman vicus at modern Vevey on Lake Geneva, listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary, with a forum excavated at Sainte-Claire.
Vjosa Valley Biosphere Reserve
Vjosa Valley Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve in Albania designated 11 September 2025, protects 330,986 ha around one of Europe's last free-flowing wild rivers, with a core formed by the Vjosa Wild River National Park.
Vlkolínec
Vlkolínec is a village of traditional log houses in central Slovakia, part of the town of Ružomberok and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
Vodlozersky Biosphere Reserve
Vodlozersky Biosphere Reserve (Водлозерский), Russia, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2001 around Vodlozersky National Park (est. 1991) in Karelia and Arkhangelsk Region; 865,110 ha of northern and middle taiga, mires, lakes, and wooden-architecture heritage.
Vodna
Vodna is an ancient place in the Pleiades gazetteer (place 207561), cited as Barrington Atlas 21 E6: a Roman-period fort and iron mining site in Bulgaria, near the Danube at Ruse.
Vogelhaus (Switzerland)
Vogelhaus (Switzerland): German term for Swiss bird houses and aviaries (Voliere), from society-run park aviaries in Zurich, Thun, and St. Gallen to Zoo Basel's 1927 free-flight hall, plus TSchV enclosure rules.
Voices for Climate Ecological Park
Parque Ecológico Voces por el Clima (Voices for Climate Ecological Park), a 4.5-hectare climate change education park in Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru, built as a COP20 2014 legacy by MINAM and the Surco municipality, the first climate theme park in South America.
Volcanal
The Volcanal was the cult-center of the Roman god Vulcan at the north-west corner of the Roman Forum, traditionally founded by the Sabine king Titus Tatius.
Volcanoes National Park
Volcanoes National Park (Parc National des Volcans) is a Rwandan park in the Virunga Mountains protecting endangered mountain gorillas, with about 12 habituated families, USD 1,500 trekking permits, and roughly a third of the world's mountain gorillas.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Volcanoes of Kamchatka (Вулканы Камчатки) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Russian Far East, inscribed in 1996, protecting active volcanoes, glaciers, and wildlife.
Voley Castle (United Kingdom)
Voley Castle, Parracombe, North Devon: an earthwork enclosure on Heale Down in Exmoor, scheduled monument 1003885; read as a slight univallate hillfort by Historic England and as a late Iron Age or Romano-British defended farmstead by the Exmoor HER.
Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain Biosphere Reserve
Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve (nominated 2011) in Volgograd region, Russia: 180,478 ha of wetlands between the Volga and Akhtuba rivers, about 3,000 water bodies, 26+ fish species, and a dam-altered flood regime.
Voluntary natural reserve
Voluntary natural reserve: also Freiwilliges Naturreservat, réserve naturelle volontaire. An area of national interest protected voluntarily by its owner to safeguard wildlife, archeological, and geological sites, without state expropriation.
Volunteers-In-Parks
Volunteers-In-Parks (VIP) is the official volunteer program of the US National Park Service, authorized by the Volunteers in the Parks Act of 1970, with over 100,000 volunteers a year.
Volusii
Volusii (gens Volusia, Villa dei Volusii Saturnini): Roman senatorial family and their large villa at Fiano Romano near Lucus Feroniae, 30 km north of Rome; discovered 1961 during Autostrada del Sole works, late Republican with Augustan enlargement, free entry.
Voordelta
Voordelta: Dutch Natura 2000 marine site (83,534 ha, code NL4000017), the shallow coastal sea off Zeeland and Zuid-Holland from Maasvlakte to Walcheren; first Dutch Natura 2000 management plan, with Maasvlakte 2 nature compensation, a 29,836 ha bottom protection area, and five rest areas.
Voreda
Voreda, also Bereda, was a Roman auxiliary fort at Old Penrith, Plumpton Wall, Cumbria, on the A6 road toward Carlisle. Occupied 1st-4th century AD, built by the Twentieth Legion, garrisoned by the part-mounted Second Cohort of Gauls from AD 178 to c. 249.
Voronezhskaya
Voronezhskaya is a Pleiades gazetteer entry for an ancient tumulus (kurgan), cited from Barrington Atlas 84 E3, at 45.218767 N, 39.565966 E, dated 550 BC to 30 BC, with no recorded ancient name.
Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve
Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve, French part of the Vosges du Nord–Pfälzerwald Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, the first UNESCO transboundary reserve in Europe (1998), covering 3,061.6 km², 72% forest, across 217 communes.