Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

*Themellum

Themellum (Themellum) is an ancient villa site in Gaul recorded in Pleiades (place 138616) and the Barrington Atlas (14 G1), located near Thomeau, Cm. St-Règle?, France, at 47.4076, 1.0347, attested AD 300–640.

*Tinnetio

Tinnetio (Latin Tinnetio, Tinnetione) is a Roman road station in Raetia on the Julier-Septimer route, recorded in the Antonine Itinerary and identified with Tinizong (Tinzen), Graubünden, Switzerland, 25 Roman miles from Murus.

*Turnacum

Turnacum (Tornacum), ancient Tournai in Hainaut, Belgium: a Gallo-Roman vicus on the Schelde, road node between Bavay and Boulogne, later Menapian civitas capital, walled late Roman town, and Salian Frankish royal seat of Childeric I.

*Varatedo

Varatedo (Varatedum), Roman road station of the Bituriges Vivisci on the Peutinger route Burdigala–Vesonna, identified with Vayres, Gironde, on the Dordogne; distinct from the homonym Varadeto near Varaire, Lot.

*Vercovicium

Vercovicium (Housesteads Roman Fort), Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland; 2.2 ha, 800-man milliary cohort, cohors I Tungrorum, occupied about AD 122 to the late 4th century; Britain's most complete Roman fort.

*Via Curia

Via Curia, a Roman road of central Italy connecting Reate (Rieti) with Interamna Nahars (Terni), attributed to Manius Curius Dentatus around 272 BC and known only from Dionysius of Halicarnassus citing Varro; later a Salaria–Flaminia link.

*Vicus Aurelianus

Vicus Aurelianus ("Golden Village") was the Roman civilian settlement at modern Öhringen, Baden-Württemberg, beside two forts on the Limes frontier, first excavated in the 18th century by Christian Ernst Hanßelmann.

*Vicus Phosphorianus

Vicus Phosphorianus, at Henchir Oued Kherouf (Ain Mellouk), Algeria, was a rural vicus in Roman Numidia near Thibilis, founded by Phosphorus with a Caelestis temple, four arches, and nundinae market days, known from ILAlg II, 2, 6225.

*Vindiciacum

Vindiciacum, a Roman villa at Vensat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France; recorded in the Barrington Atlas gazetteer (map 14 I2) and Pleiades; name ends in Gallo-Roman -acum.

*Vocarium

Vocarium (Vocario, Ptolemy's Ouakorion) was a Roman road station in Noricum on the Iuvavum–Virunum road over the Radstädter Tauern, placed near Pfarrwerfen, Austria, 17 miles from Cucullis; its exact site remains unidentified.

*Zorlanae

Zorlanae, recorded as Zorlanis on the Tabula Peutingeriana, is a Roman road station in southern Thrace between Malkara and Ainos, tentatively placed near modern Keşan, Turkey.

100 Eggs Mud Bath

100 Eggs Mud Bath (Khu Du Lịch Trăm Trứng) is an egg-themed mud spa and theme park opened December 2012 in Phuoc Dong, south Nha Trang, Vietnam, with private egg-shaped hot mud tubs, mineral pools, and gardens; distinct from Thap Ba and I-Resort.

10050 Cielo Drive

10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles: house where Manson Family murdered Sharon Tate and four others in 1969; demolished 1994, address changed to 10066 Cielo Drive.

15-minute city

The 15-minute city, coined by Carlos Moreno in 2016, is an urban planning model placing daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride; championed by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and adapted in Melbourne, Portland, and other cities.

17 Bruton Street, Mayfair

17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, was an eighteenth-century townhouse. It served as the London home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and was the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth II in 1926.

17-Mile Drive

17-Mile Drive is a private scenic toll road through Pebble Beach and Del Monte Forest on California's Monterey Peninsula, opened June 2, 1881 as a Hotel Del Monte carriage tour; it passes the Lone Cypress and Pebble Beach Golf Links.

2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires

The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, chiefly the human-caused Chimney Tops 2 Fire reported November 23, 2016, killed 14 people, burned about 11,000 park acres plus 6,000 in Sevier County, and destroyed over 2,400 buildings in Gatlinburg amid 87 mph gusts and drought.

33 (ancient villa)

33 (Pleiades place 140464) is an ancient villa at Vallières, commune Neuvy, Allier, France, catalogued as Barrington Atlas Map 14 I2 no. 33; no ancient name is recorded, and the site is known from Gallo-Roman substructures with painted plaster.

350 Park Avenue

350 Park Avenue, New York: a 1961 Emery Roth & Sons 30-story office tower (Hanover Bank Building), owned by Vornado, demolished in 2026 for a 62-story Foster + Partners supertall developed by a Griffin/Vornado/Rudin JV with Citadel as anchor tenant.

4D Adventureland

Sentosa 4D AdventureLand, also 4D Adventureland (4D 探索乐园), is an indoor 4D theme park at Imbiah Lookout, Sentosa, Singapore, with Chaos In Wonderland, Extreme Log Ride, Haunted Mine Ride, and Desperados; built 2005, distinct from Adventureland parks in Iowa and New York.

6666 Ranch

6666 Ranch (Four Sixes Ranch), historic Texas cattle and Quarter Horse ranch at Guthrie founded by Samuel Burk Burnett in the 1870s; sold January 2022 to a group led by Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan; about 208,000-acre main division plus Dixon Creek.

A Very Large Mound of Brick Ruins Called Asmanpurdih

Asmanpurdih is a very large mound of brick ruins at Chhetiaon, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, a centrally protected ASI monument under the Sarnath Circle, protected in 1920, 3.5 miles south of Chetiaon.

A. S. Pushkin nomli bolalar bog'i

A. S. Pushkin nomli bolalar bog'i (ПКиО им. Пушкина) is a children's amusement park at Pushkin ko'chasi 51, Andijan, Uzbekistan: 9.6 acres, Ferris wheel, pool, rides 5,000–25,000 sum, 5.0 Yandex rating.

A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden

A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden (Ботанічний сад ім. О. В. Фоміна), founded 1839 in Kyiv, is the 22.5-hectare university botanical garden of Taras Shevchenko National University, named for director O. V. Fomin, with major tropical, woody, and rare-plant collections.

Aapravasi Ghat

Aapravasi Ghat is the remains of an immigration depot in Port Louis, Mauritius, built in 1849, where nearly half a million indentured laborers from India arrived.

Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea

Aasivissuit – Nipisat, Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea: UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in central West Greenland, inscribed 2018 under criterion (v), 417,800 ha, 4,200 years of Inuit and Palaeo-Inuit hunting history across seven localities from Nipisat to Aasivissuit.

Aballava

Aballava: Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall at Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, near Carlisle. Third-century garrison of Berber Moors (numerus Maurorum Aurelianorum), the first recorded African community in Britain; marked by a 2016 BBC plaque.

Abaton

Abaton (Greek, "inaccessible"): a restricted sacred precinct housing a mythical tomb of Osiris, chiefly the Abaton of Biggeh opposite Philae, regulated by the Abaton Decree carved on Hadrian's Door, with ritual prohibitions and Isis's boat processions.

Abbazia di Sant'Antimo

Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (Abbey of Sant'Antimo), a former Benedictine abbey in the Starcia valley near Montalcino, Tuscany. Romanesque church begun 1118 under Abbot Guidone after an Ardengheschi donation; Carolingian crypt attested 813; suppressed by Pius II in 1462.