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Yukyuzan Mini-Zoo
Yukyuzan Mini-Zoo (悠久山小動物園) is a free small municipal zoo in Yukyuzan Park, Nagaoka, Niigata, opened 1951 as the Science Museum's live-animal exhibit, keeping about 30 species centered on Japanese macaques.
Yun Hsien Resort
Yun Hsien Resort (云仙乐园) is a resort and forest recreation area in Wulai, New Taipei, Taiwan, opened in 1967 as Taiwan's first private amusement park, reached by cable car above Wulai Falls.
Yunfu Botanical Garden
Yunfu Botanical Garden (云浮植物园), a municipal botanical garden at Zidaitang in Nanshan Forest Park, Yuncheng District, Yunfu, Guangdong; 643 mu planned, 652 native plant species, germplasm repository and science education site.
Yunlan Bay Hot Spring
Yunlan Bay Hot Spring (云澜湾温泉景区) is a national 4A hot spring resort in Dayun Town, Jiashan County, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, built on the Jiare No. 2 geothermal well, with nine themed zones, about 60 pools, and five-star hot spring rating since 2020.
Yunnan Nationalities Village
Yunnan Nationalities Village (云南民族村), an ethnic-culture theme park on Dianchi Lake in Kunming, opened 18 February 1992; 26 replica minority villages, 4A scenic area, over 41 million visitors in 30 years.
Yunnan Safari Park
Yunnan Safari Park, officially Yunnan Wildlife Park (云南野生动物园), is a 2,800-mu mountain zoo in Kunming's Jindian National Forest Park with over 100 species, about 10,000 animals, giant pandas Maozhu and Zhenduo, AAAA rating since 2012, and a 16-km tram route closed to private cars.
Yunxi Botanical Garden
Yunxi Botanical Garden (云溪植物园), Guangzhou's first municipal botanical garden at Baiyun Mountain's west foot, opened 8 August 2024; 83 ha, 35 ha core, 1,300+ conserved species, national ex-situ conservation demonstration area.
Yunyang UNESCO Global Geopark
Yunyang UNESCO Global Geopark (云阳) in Chongqing, China, designated April 2025; 1,124 square kilometers with an 18 km Middle Jurassic dinosaur fossil wall, a 335 m sinkhole, and Tujia heritage.
Yvonand
Yvonand, Vaud municipality on Lake Neuchâtel's south shore; UNESCO pile-dwelling site Le Marais (Horgen/Lüscherz, Late Bronze Age) and the large Gallo-Roman villa of Mordagne, occupied from the 1st century AD.
Zaachila
Zaachila (Teozapotlán), Zapotec archaeological site 15 km from Oaxaca city; last capital of Zapotec power, ruled by Cosijoeza, known for richly furnished Tombs 1 and 2 explored by Roberto Gallegos in 1962.
Zaanse Schans
Zaanse Schans, also De Zaanse Schans, is a heritage village in Zaanstad, North Holland, with relocated Zaan timber houses and working windmills such as De Kat and De Zoeker; created from 1947, opened by Queen Juliana in 1972, and facing overtourism of 2.6 million annual visitors.
Zabeel Palace (قصر زعبيل)
Zabeel Palace (قصر زعبيل), or Za'abeel Palace, is the official residence of Dubai's ruling Al Maktoum family in Za'abeel, Dubai. Built 1963–1965 for Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum by Otto Bulart of Overseas AST; closed to the public, exterior viewing only.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is an overlook in Death Valley National Park, California, above badlands of the Pliocene Furnace Creek Formation, named for borax executive Christian Brevoort Zabriskie and famed for views of Manly Beacon.
Zaculeu
Zaculeu is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala near Huehuetenango, once the capital of the Mam kingdom and attacked by the Spanish in 1525.
Zagori Cultural Landscape
Zagori Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in mountainous Epirus, northwestern Greece, inscribed in 2023 for the Zagorochoria, a cluster of traditional stone villages linked by stone-arched bridges and cobbled paths.
Zagreb Botanical Garden
Zagreb Botanical Garden (Botanički vrt), University of Zagreb Faculty of Science garden founded 1889 by Antun Heinz; 4.7 ha, ~6,500 taxa, 1891 exhibition greenhouse, protected monument since 1971.
Zalataya Padkova
Залатая падкова (Золотая подкова, "golden horseshoe"): a heraldic charge (Jastrabiec arms, 1768), a 2001 Belarusian blacksmithing festival, and the shared name of a dairy OAO, cafe-motels, banquet complexes, and equestrian clubs in Belarus and Russia.
Zambezi
The Zambezi, Africa's fourth longest river (about 3,400 km), drains a 1,370,000 km² basin across eight countries to the Indian Ocean; its Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams dominate hydropower, flow regulation, and drought-exposed energy supply.
Zambezi Delta (protected area)
Zambezi Delta Ramsar Site (site 1391), Mozambique's second Wetland of International Importance, designated 2004 and extended in 2015 to over 3,000 km2; a biodiversity-rich delta threatened by upstream Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zaouia de Sidi-Moussa
Zaouia de Sidi-Moussa, an archaeological site in Tipaza province, Algeria, where a ruined marabout shrine covers a large Roman villa with ashlar terrace wall, courtyard house, and cisterns, recorded by Philippe Leveau.
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops is a Czech UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape, inscribed 2023, combining Saaz hop fields near the Ohře river with the town of Žatec, documenting over 700 years of hop growing, processing, and trade.
Zauschwitz
Zauschwitz (Pegau, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony; formerly Kr. Borna) is a multi-period German archaeological site with a Globular Amphora culture double burial beside a triple cattle deposition, a Salzmünde infant grave, and a Roman Iron Age Germanic urnfield.
Zăvalu
Zăvalu: ancient fort or tower site cited on Barrington Atlas map 21 F6, at Zăval village, Dolj County, Romania, near the Jiu-Danube confluence; a 2nd-century earthen camp, destroyed by an 1890 flood, with no confirmed Late Roman fortification.
Zăvoi Roman Camp
Zăvoi Roman Camp (Agnaviae/Acmonia): Roman earth fort, 336 x 336 m, in Zăvoi, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Tibiscum–Sarmizegetusa road; Trajanic garrison cohors I Sagittariorum, abandoned after AD 117–118.
Zawa
Zawa is an ancient cemetery or necropolis in the Marmarica desert near the Siwa oasis region of Libya and Egypt, a Roman-period (30 BC–AD 300) burial site recorded in Barrington Atlas map 73 and Pleiades place 716649.
Zawiyet el-Agdab
Zawiyet el-Agdab (Qasr Agdabiya), a fortified ancient building near Sollum in Matrouh, Egypt, on the Marmarica Plateau. Rectangular enclosure with square towers, probably Byzantine or Roman, reused by Copts, the Senussi, and in World War II; registered in 2022.
Zazaland
Zazaland (Զազալենդ) is a small children's amusement park opened May 2016 in Circular Park, central Yerevan, Armenia, on Moskovyan Street. Rides for kids under 10, card-based pricing (AMD200 card, AMD500 per attraction), precursor to Yerevan Park.
Zeboi mekhr
Zeboi mekhr (Зебои мехр) is a small entertainment center in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, whose name means roughly "the beauty of affection" and which is also recorded under the club name PMS.
Zed Park
Zed Park (زد بارك) is a 65-feddan amusement and community park in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, Egypt, at the center of Ora Developers' 165-feddan ZED project; opened 2020, with a 45-meter Ferris wheel, Winter Wonderland ice rink, sports facilities, and concerts.
Żejtun (Zejtun) Roman Villa
Żejtun Roman Villa (Malta): multi-period site discovered in 1961 under a school, a Roman rustic villa for olive-oil pressing with torcularium, cisterns, and tiled residential rooms, occupied from the 1st century BC, with Punic and Bronze Age layers.