Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Yellowstone Lake

Yellowstone Lake is a large freshwater lake in Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming, the largest high-elevation lake in North America, sitting at 7,733 feet.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park, a mostly Wyoming preserve established in 1872 as the world's first national park, holds over 10,000 hydrothermal features, including more than half of the world's geysers.

Yen Tu-Vinh Nghiem-Con Son, Kiep Bac Complex of Monuments and Landscapes

Serial UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2025, dossier 1732) of 12 sites across Quang Ninh, Bac Ninh, and Hai Phong, Viet Nam; birthplace of Truc Lam Zen Buddhism founded by Tran Nhan Tong in 1299.

Yeongsimi Folk Village

Yeongsimi Folk Village (영심이민속촌) is a small folk-village theme park in the Sodap-dong area of Uichang-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, about 2 km from Changwon Station.

Yerevan Botanical Garden

Yerevan Botanical Garden (Երևանի բուսաբանական այգի), Armenia's national botanical garden, founded 1935; 80 ha semi-desert site in northeastern Yerevan with about 5,000 species, a 1.5 ha Armenian flora plot, and the new Park of Life project.

Yesemek

Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop, near İslahiye, Gaziantep, Turkey, is the largest known sculpture workshop of the ancient Near East, a Hittite and Neo-Hittite basalt quarry with over 600 unfinished lions, sphinxes, and god reliefs, now an open-air museum on the UNESCO Tentative List.

Yetgaya Folk Village

Yetgaya Folk Village (옛가야민속촌, Yetgayaminsokchon) is a theme park in Gumi, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, presenting the traditional lifestyle and dwellings of the ancient Gaya confederacy; located at 36.11631° N, 128.42613° E near Seokjeok-eup.

Yihe Road Historic Cultural District

Yihe Road Historic Cultural District (颐和路历史文化街区), Nanjing's Gulou District: a 37.8-hectare Republican-era villa district from the 1929 Capital Plan, first batch of 30 China Historic and Cultural Districts, UNESCO award 2014, 2025 national urban renewal case.

Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark, in Linyi City, Shandong, China, designated 2019; 1,804.76 km² with five sub parks; known for Archean rocks, China's first kimberlite diamond deposit, and the Daigu landform type locality.

Yin Xu

Yinxu (Yin Xu, 殷墟), the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan, was the last capital of China's late Shang dynasty (1300–1046 BC) and the source of oracle bone inscriptions, the earliest mature Chinese writing, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2006.

Yığma Tepe Tumulus

Yığma Tepe Tumulus (Pergamon Yığmatepe Tümülüsü) is a monumental Hellenistic burial mound at Pergamon, in modern Bergama, Turkey. At 32 m tall and 158 m across, it is the city's largest tumulus.

Yoho National Park

Yoho National Park: 1,313 km² national park in southeast British Columbia, established 1886, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, home to the Burgess Shale fossils, Kicking Horse River, and Takakkaw Falls.

Yohualichan

Yohualichan, "House of the Night" in Nahuatl, is a Totonac archaeological site and ceremonial center in Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico, known for niche-crowned pyramids like El Tajín and a roughly 90-meter ball court.

Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo

Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo (金沢動物園), opened 1982 in Kanazawa Nature Park, Yokohama, is a municipal zoo of about 50 species and 1,000 animals specializing in rare herbivores, with koalas, a kangaroo walk-through, and Ministry of the Environment rare-species certification.

Yokohama Cosmo World

Yokohama Cosmo World (よこはまコスモワールド) is an amusement park in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama, Japan, opened in 1990 and known for the 112.5-meter Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris wheel.

Yokohama Omoshiro Aquarium

Yokohama Omoshiro Aquarium (ヨコハマおもしろ水族館), also known as Yoshimoto Omoshiro Aquarium, was a school-themed entertainment aquarium in Yokohama Chinatown's China Square Building, open 2004-2021, closed due to COVID-19, succeeded by Fortune Aquarium.

Yomiuri Land

Yomiuri Land (よみうりランド) is an amusement park in Inagi, western Tokyo, opened March 1964 and run by Yomiuri Land Co., Ltd. Known for the 110 km/h Bandit coaster, Sky Shuttle gondola, summer water park, Jewellumination lights, and PokéPark KANTO.

Yonaguni Monument (与那国島海底地形)

Yonaguni Monument (与那国島海底地形), also called Kaitei Iseki, is a submerged Yaeyama sandstone formation off Yonaguni Island, Japan, found in 1986 by diver Kihachiro Aratake; most geologists call it natural, Masaaki Kimura argues it is man-made.

Yongin Agriculture Theme Park

Yongin Agricultural Theme Park (용인농촌테마파크), formerly Wuri Land, is a municipal rural-experience park in Wonsam-myeon, Yongin, South Korea, opened September 2006, with insect and farming-culture exhibition halls, wildflower plaza, and farm programs for urban families.

YookRim Land

YookRim Land (육림랜드, Yuklim Land) is a small amusement park and zoo in Sanong-dong, Chuncheon, South Korea, opened in the mid-1970s; rides, animal feeding, pool, and campsite, with admission from 5,000 won.

York Factory

York Factory: Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post and depot (1684-1957) on the Hayes River near Hudson Bay, Manitoba; three successive forts, Northern Department headquarters from 1810, now a National Historic Site threatened by riverbank erosion and permafrost thaw.

Yosemite Falls

Yosemite Falls, in Yosemite Valley, California, drops 2,425 ft (740 m) in three sections (Upper 1,430 ft, cascades 675 ft, Lower 320 ft) on snowmelt-fed Yosemite Creek, peaking in May and often running dry by late summer.

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, is a 747,956-acre park first protected in 1864 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, known for granite cliffs, waterfalls, glacially carved Yosemite Valley, giant sequoia groves, and about 95 percent designated wilderness.

Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Valley: glacially carved U-shaped valley in the Sierra Nevada, California, drained by the Merced River; protected by the 1864 Yosemite Grant, part of Yosemite National Park since 1890.

Yotvata Hai-Bar

Hai-Bar Yotvata (חי-בר יטבתה), a nature reserve 35 km north of Eilat on Route 90, breeds endangered desert animals such as the Arabian oryx, onager, and ostrich for reintroduction, with a drive-through safari and predators center.

Yu Garden

Yu Garden (豫园, Yuyuan) is a Ming-dynasty classical Jiangnan garden in Shanghai's Huangpu district, begun in 1559 by Pan Yunduan, a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit beside the City God Temple and Yuyuan Bazaar.

Yubileynoye 1

Yubileynoye 1 (Юбилейное I) is an ancient Hellenistic-Roman rural settlement and fortified estate on the Taman Peninsula, Russia, cited as BAtlas 87 M2; excavated by E.A. Savostina from 1983, it yielded the marble Taman stele and a limestone battle frieze reused in its foundations.