Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Battery at Caer Mote

The Battery at Caer Mote is an unexcavated earthwork enclosure on Caer Mote ridge near Bothel, Cumbria, also called Caer Mote Enclosure; no record of artillery use, near a first-century AD Roman fort.

Battlesbury Camp

Battlesbury Camp is an Iron Age bivallate hillfort of 9.7 ha on Battlesbury Hill near Warminster, Wiltshire, a scheduled monument paired with Scratchbury, excavated by Maud Cunnington in 1922.

Batumi Botanical Garden

Batumi Botanical Garden (Georgian: ბათუმის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is a 108-hectare garden on the Black Sea coast 9 km north of Batumi, Georgia, founded in 1912 by the botanist Andrey Krasnov.

Batumi Central Park

Batumi Central Park (ბათუმის ცენტრალური პარკი), formerly 6 May Park, is Batumi's first civil garden, created from 1881 around Lake Nurigeli, with dolphinarium, aquarium, and zoo.

Batumi Dolphinarium

Batumi Dolphinarium (ბათუმის დელფინარიუმი), Batumi, Georgia: first demonstration dolphinarium in the USSR, opened 1975, closed early 1990s, rebuilt and reopened May 6, 2011; amphitheater for 795-887 spectators, Georgian and English dolphin shows.

Baturiya Wetland

Baturiya Wetland, also called Hadejia-Nguru Wetland Game Reserve, is a Ramsar site (no. 1752, 2008) in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a 1985 game reserve on the Kafin Hausa River floodplain, important for waterbirds and Palearctic migrants.

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany, inscribed 1996 and extended 2017, comprising seven Bauhaus buildings in Weimar, Dessau, and Bernau under criteria (ii), (iv), (vi), 8.1614 ha.

Bavian/Khinnis

Bavian/Khinnis (Khinis, ancient Khunusa) is a Neo-Assyrian rock-relief complex of Sennacherib, around 690 BC, at the head of his canal from the Gomel River to Nineveh, with the Bavian inscriptions and Jerwan aqueduct.

Bawtry Roman fort

Bawtry Roman fort, the Scaftworth fortlet, is a scheduled triple-ditched Roman military enclosure of the late 4th century AD beside the River Idle near Bawtry, Nottinghamshire, on the York–Lincoln Roman road.

Bazino

Bazino (بازینو) names an 8-floor indoor amusement and commercial complex in Karaj, Iran, founded 1389 with 120+ machines, plus several smaller Iranian parks, shops, and a VR brand.

Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944

Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944 (Les Plages du Débarquement): UNESCO World Heritage serial site inscribed 26 July 2026, six components (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword, Pointe du Hoc) over about 80 km, criterion (vi), 4,228.68 ha.

Beacon Hill Hillfort

Beacon Hill Hillfort (Burghclere, Hampshire) is a scheduled large univallate Iron Age hillfort enclosing 3.84 ha, with hornwork entrance, unploughed interior, 1912 Woolley excavation, and the tomb of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon.

Beale Street

Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, home of the blues; its two-block historic district (NRIS 66000731) was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, devastated by urban renewal, and revived as a tourist entertainment district.

Bear Mountain State Park

Bear Mountain State Park is a Hudson Highlands park in Rockland/Orange County, NY, on the Hudson River's west bank, managed by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, home of the Trailside Museums & Zoo, Bear Mountain Inn, Perkins Memorial Tower, and the first Appalachian Trail section (1923).

Bear park

BearPark (BärenPark), Bern's free-access brown bear enclosure on the Aare riverbank, opened 22 October 2009 as successor to the historic Bärengraben; 6,000 m², part of Tierpark Bern, home to bears Finn, Björk, and Ursina, open 24/7 with about 1.5 million visitors yearly.

Bear Shelter Kuterevo

Bear Shelter Kuterevo is a sanctuary for orphaned brown bear cubs in the village of Kuterevo on Croatia's Velebit mountains, founded in 2002 and caring for non-releasable bears from zoos.

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument, a sacred southeastern Utah protected area created in 2016 at the request of five tribes and managed with the Bears Ears Commission, was cut 85% by Trump in 2017, restored to about 1.36 million acres by Biden in 2021, and cut again in 2026.

Bearsden Roman bath house

Bearsden Roman bath house: remains of a Roman bath house and latrine in the annexe of the Antonine Wall fort at Bearsden, Glasgow; excavated 1973-1982 under David Breeze, with sandstone construction, a diet-yielding latrine, and finds including a goddess head.

Beas Conservation Reserve

The Beas Conservation Reserve is a 185 km stretch of the Beas River in Punjab, India, a Ramsar site since 2019 and home to India's only Indus river dolphins.

Beaujolais UNESCO Global Geopark

Beaujolais UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc du Beaujolais): a UNESCO Global Geopark in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, designated 2018, covering 158,600 ha and 123 communes, renewed in 2026, known for 500-million-year geology, Gamay wine, and Mont Brouilly.

Beaulieu

Beaulieu, Hampshire village on the Beaulieu River in the New Forest; name from bellus locus regis; site of Beaulieu Abbey founded by King John in 1204, dissolved 1538, and the Montagu family's Palace House and National Motor Museum.

Beaumajour

Beaumajour (Baou Majour), Grans, Bouches-du-Rhône, France: prehistoric cave and hilltop site, Neolithic to Iron Age, with a Gallo-Roman villa establishment at its foot; Barrington Atlas 15 E2.

Beaumont-sur-Oise amphitheater

Beaumont-sur-Oise amphitheater (amphithéâtre gallo-romain): a 1st-century Gallo-Roman theater converted to an amphitheater in the 2nd century, one of Gaul's smallest (23.6 m arena, ~1,500 seats), excavated 1989-1990 and preserved in the Lycée Evariste-Galois courtyard.

Beauport Park Archaeological Site

Beauport Park, East Sussex: major Romano-British ironworking site near Battle, probably the third-largest in the Roman Empire, with a 100,000-ton slag heap and an excavated Classis Britannica bathhouse.

Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve

Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated March 19, 2016 in Alberta, Canada, covers 159,560 ha of moraine east of Edmonton, governed by the Beaver Hills Biosphere Region Association with a 2026 periodic review.

Beavers Bend Resort Park

Beavers Bend Resort Park, also called Beavers Bend State Park, is a 3,482-acre Oklahoma state park near Broken Bow on Broken Bow Lake and the Mountain Fork River, established 1937 with CCC structures, 47 cabins, 393 campsites, and a mostly Texan visitor base.

Becan

Becan (Becán), a Maya archaeological site in Campeche, Mexico, capital of the Río Bec region in the Late Classic, distinguished by a roughly 2 km dry ditch and embankment earthwork with seven entrances, first recorded in 1934.

Becher Point Wetlands

Becher Point Wetlands, Ramsar site 1048 near Rockingham, Western Australia: about 60 seasonally flooded freshwater wetlands on a Holocene beach ridge plain, listed 5 January 2001, 708 ha, with endangered Holocene dune-swale sedgelands.

Beckinghausen

Beckinghausen (Römerlager Beckinghausen, Uferkastell Beckinghausen) is a Roman riverside supply fort at Lünen on the Lippe, Germany, built about 11 BC to provision the Oberaden legionary fortress; 1.6 ha, three ditches, excavated 1911–1914 and 1995–1998.