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Belo-sur-Mer - Kirindy-Mite Biosphere Reserve
Belo-sur-Mer-Kirindy-Mite Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 2016 on Madagascar's west coast, covering 625,050 ha of dry forest, mangroves, and reefs around Kirindy Mitea National Park, with 62,235 residents.
Belokorets Ecological Trail
Экалагічная сцежка Белакорац (Belokorets ecological trail, Экологическая тропа Белокорец): a 1.3 km accessible figure-eight loop created in 2018 in Naliboki Forest, Valozhyn district, Minsk Region, Belarus, near the Islach river.
Belsinum
Belsinum, also Balsione or Belsinon, names two ancient places: a Celtiberian town in Hispania Tarraconensis identified with Cerro del Convento near Mallén, Zaragoza, and a Roman road station in Gers, France.
Beltany
Beltany Stone Circle (Bealtaine) is a 45 m diameter prehistoric circle of 64 stones on Beltany Hill near Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland; one of Ireland's largest, possibly a denuded passage tomb, named for the May fire festival.
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a Victorian folly in Central Park, New York, atop Vista Rock at 79th Street, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, completed 1872, a U.S. Weather Bureau station from 1919, restored 1983 and 2019.
Benalroma
Benalroma, Roman villa at Benalmádena Costa near Málaga, Spain, occupied 1st-6th centuries AD; known for its euripus garden with cascading fountain, baths with Solomon's-knot mosaic, and Los Molinillos oil and fish-salting production quarter.
Benches on Kolonos Agoraios
Four rows of mid-5th-century BC poros stone benches cut into the east slope of Kolonos Agoraios at the Athenian Agora, seating 400-500 people, perhaps for a council, law court, or theatergoers.
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair (Kloster St. Johann in Müstair), a Swiss convent founded around 775, probably by Charlemagne; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983 with the largest preserved Carolingian fresco cycle.
Benedykt Dybowski Dendrological Park
Дендропарк ім. Бенедикта Дибовського (Benedykt Dybowski Dendrological Park), 0.64-ha botanical nature monument at Kubanska 12, Lviv; arboretum founded 1910 by Benedykt Dybowski, protected 2010, ~113 tree and shrub species, children's zoo, free entry.
Benghazi Zoo
Benghazi Zoo (حديقة حيوان بنغازي) is a municipal zoo in Benghazi, Libya, founded in 1956 under Italian administration; it suffered looting and closure in the 2011 uprising and is being redeveloped as a 47-hectare park.
Beni Biosphere Reserve
Beni Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Estación Biológica del Beni), a UNESCO MAB site in Beni Department, Bolivia, designated 1986; 135,274 ha of Amazon forest and savanna, over 2,000 plant species, Tsimane' communities, and Amazon Biosphere Reserves Project restoration and fire programs.
Benia Guedah Ceder
Benia Guedah Ceder (Qasr El Benia, castellum de Guedah-Ceder) is a late Roman fortlet of the Limes Tripolitanus in Gabès Governorate, Tunisia: a 60 by 40 m ashlar enclosure guarding the Tebaga Gap, classified National Heritage in 1899.
Benoué Biosphere Reserve
Benoué Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de Biosphère de la Bénoué), Cameroon, UNESCO MAB site designated 1981 around Bénoué National Park (180,000 ha) and eight hunting zones; threats include logging, poaching, and overgrazing.
Bentumersiel
Bentumersiel is an archaeological settlement site on the lower Ems river near Jemgum, Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its exceptionally many Roman finds within a Germanic marsh settlement.
Berbak-Sembilang Biosphere Reserve
Berbak-Sembilang Biosphere Reserve, a 2018 UNESCO MAB reserve on Sumatra's south-east coast, combines Berbak and Sembilang National Parks and two wildlife reserves across 3,819,837 ha of peat swamp, freshwater swamp, and mangrove, sheltering Sumatran tigers and migratory birds.
Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve
Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve, Germany's only alpine UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1990 and extended 2010; 840 km² in Bavaria, with Berchtesgaden National Park as core and buffer zone.
Beremytske Nature Park
Beremytske Nature Park (Парк природи «Беремицьке») is a private rewilding and ecotourism site of about 500 ha on the left bank of the Desna River in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Opened 13 October 2017, it is the first non-state nature project in Ukraine, using Konik horses, Tauros cattle, and natural grazing to restore ancient Polissia ecosystems.
Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve
Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve (Березинский биосферный заповедник), a UNESCO MAB site in northern Belarus designated in 1978-1979, protects southern European taiga with an 11,000-ha undrained bog, bears, wolves, bison, and Ramsar and European Diploma status.
Bergdorf Goodman Building
Bergdorf Goodman Building, 754 Fifth Avenue (2 West 58th Street), Manhattan: 1927-28 Buchman & Kahn department store on the former Vanderbilt II mansion site, seven unified Modern Classical buildings, NYC landmark since 2016.
Bergen Aquarium
Bergen Aquarium (Akvariet i Bergen), Norway's largest aquarium, opened 27 August 1960 on Nordnes in Bergen. Over 60 tanks of Norwegian marine fauna, seals, penguins, and about 30 crocodiles; Statsbygg found over 20 building deviations in 2025.
Bergheim-Quadrath
Bergheim-Quadrath is the Barrington Atlas designation for a Roman road station at Quadrath, a district of Bergheim, Germany, on the Köln–Bavai road (Via Belgica), catalogued as Pleiades place 108805 with no recorded ancient name.
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a hillside landscape park in Kassel, Germany, begun in 1689 and known for its gravity-driven water displays beneath a giant Hercules statue.
Berkeley Castle
Berkeley Castle is a Norman castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, begun c. 1067–1070 by William FitzOsbern and held by the Berkeley family since 1153; site of Edward II's 1327 murder, Grade I listed with Grade II registered park.
Berlin Victory Column
Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, 'Goldelse'): 67 m gilded monument at the Großer Stern in the Tiergarten, built 1865–1873 by Heinrich Strack, moved 1938–39, with 285-step viewing platform.
Berlin Zoo
Berlin Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Berlin), Germany's first zoo, opened 1 August 1844 in the Tiergarten; oldest Berlin stock company, rebuilt after WWII (91 of 4,000+ animals survived), famed for Knut and pandas, ~19,500 animals, ~1,000 species.
Bern Botanic Garden
Bern Botanic Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern, BOGA) is the University of Bern's botanical garden at Altenbergrain 21, Bern, founded 1789, at its current Aare-slope site since 1859-62, with over 6,000 plant species, seven greenhouses, a 500,000-specimen herbarium, and free daily admission.
Bernardine Cemetery, Vilnius
The Bernardine Cemetery (Bernardinų kapinės) is a classicist cemetery founded in 1810 in the Užupis district of Vilnius, the city's second oldest, devastated under Soviet rule and restored since independence.
Bernardo O'Higgins National Park
Bernardo O'Higgins National Park (Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins) is the largest national park in Chile, created in 1969 in southern Patagonia around the Southern Patagonian Icefield.
Berne Animal Park
Berne Animal Park (Tierpark Bern, Tierpark Dählhölzli) is Bern's municipal zoo, opened 5 June 1937 in the Dählhölzli forest, funded partly by William Gabus's 150,000-franc legacy, with the free BearPark added in 2009.
Beroe
Beroe: name of several ancient Balkan settlements, chiefly the Thracian-Roman city Augusta Traiana-Beroe at Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and a Roman-Byzantine Danube fort at Piatra Frecăței, Romania; distinct from Beroia (Veria) in Macedonia.