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Biggest Winner
Biggest Winner (普羅電子遊樂場) is a casino in Deyang Village, Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan, mapped in OpenStreetMap as node 4784276322 at 24.82842° N, 121.77365° E, near Philux King casino and Jiaoxi Hot Spring Square.
Bignor
Bignor Roman Villa, West Sussex: a major Romano-British courtyard villa with fine mosaics, occupied from about AD 200 into the 4th century, discovered by plough in 1811, excavated by Samuel Lysons, and open to visitors since 1814.
Biidaasige Park
Biidaasige Park is a roughly 60-acre waterfront park on Ookwemin Minising, a new island in Toronto's Port Lands created by rerouting the Don River, opening in phases from July 2025.
Bijarim Youth Training Center
Bijarim Youth Training Center (비자림청소년수련원), a 1992 public youth training facility in Bijarim forest, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, closed since 2019-2020 and slated for conversion into the Jeju Content Enterprise Support Center by 2027.
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site, a UNESCO World Heritage site (2010) in the Marshall Islands, preserves the U.S. nuclear testing landscape of 1946-1958: 23 tests totaling 78.6 Mt, Castle Bravo's 15-megaton shot, sunken Crossroads ships, and the displaced Bikinian community.
Bílé Karpathy Biosphere Reserve
Bílé Karpathy (White Carpathians) Biosphere Reserve, Czech UNESCO MAB site designated 1996, 74,680 ha on the Slovak border, known for 4,000 ha of species-rich orchid meadows and traditional grassland management.
Bilhari Mound
Bilhari Mound (Pushpavati Nagri) is an archaeological site in Katni district, Madhya Pradesh, with 85 temples, 13 stepwells, Kalachuri inscriptions of Yuvaraja II, and ASI-protected Vishnu Varaha and Kamakandla monuments.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress, also called Akkerman fortress or Cetatea Alba, is Ukraine's largest medieval fortress, over 9 ha with 2.5 km of walls, built 14th-15th c., Ottoman from 1484 to 1812.
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths: Roman townhouse and private bath suite (balnea) in a City of London office basement on Lower Thames Street; built about AD 150, bathhouse added 3rd century, occupied into the 5th century, discovered 1848, open by guided tour.
Biltmore Estate
Biltmore Estate, also called America's Largest Home, is an 8,000-acre private estate in Asheville, North Carolina, built for George Washington Vanderbilt II and completed in 1895; its 250-room chateau by Richard Morris Hunt is the largest privately owned US home.
Bimini Road
Bimini Road, also called Bimini Wall, is an underwater line of limestone slabs off North Bimini, Bahamas, reported in 1968 and linked to Atlantis via Edgar Cayce; geologists identify it as natural beachrock about 2,000-4,000 years old.
Bindon Hill
Bindon Hill (West Lulworth, Dorset) carries Bindon Hill camp, an unfinished Iron Age defensive earthwork complex and hillfort overlooking Lulworth Cove: a 2.4 km bank and ditch, excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in 1950, scheduled monument 1002705.
Bingo Atlantis
Bingo Atlantis is a bingo hall in Zona 9, Guatemala City, at 13 Calle 7-74, phone +502 5236 2142, open daily from 10:00; distinct from Caleta Gaming's Atlantis Bingo video bingo game.
Bingo Ethnikos Assias
Bingo Ethnikos Assias (Το Σωματείο Εθνικός Άσσιας) is a bingo hall and casino at 9 Christodoulou Sozou, Nicosia, Cyprus, run by the Ethnikos Assias club founded in 1966, with nightly prize draws.
Bingo Hurlingham
Bingo Hurlingham is a bingo hall on Avenida Julio A. Roca in Hurlingham, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, run by Bingo Oro S.A. of Grupo Midas since the 1990s.
Biodiversity Park (Argentina)
Biodiversity Park (Parque de la Biodiversidad): two Argentine sites of this name, the 17-hectare former Córdoba Zoo turned wildlife rescue and education park (reopened 2023, Ente BioCórdoba) and a 10-hectare protected landscape in Rivadavia, San Juan, from a 1979 fish-culture station.
Bioma Pampa-Quebradas del Norte Biosphere Reserve
Bioma Pampa-Quebradas del Norte Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2014 in Rivera Department, Uruguay, covering about 110,882 ha of Pampa grasslands and subtropical quebrada forest, the southernmost Atlantic Forest vestige, with core area Valle del Lunarejo.
Bioparc València
Bioparc València (Bioparc Valencia) is a zoo in Valencia, Spain, opened February 2008, replacing the Viveros Zoo. Known for zoo-immersion design without visible barriers, ~1,000 animals of 150 African species, EAZA breeding programs, and a planned Silk Road expansion.
Bios no Oka
Bios no Oka (ビオスの丘), or Bios Hill, is a subtropical nature theme park and botanical garden in Uruma City, central Okinawa, Japan. Admission (2,200 yen adults) includes a 25-minute lake cruise; highlights are water buffalo cart rides, orchids, goat walks, and forest trails.
Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere Reserve
Biosffer Dyfi (Dyfi Biosphere), Wales' only UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1977 and redesignated 2009; a 93,508 ha estuarine and upland area around the River Dyfi with Cors Fochno raised bog, Ynyslas dunes and a Ramsar estuary.
Biosphere reserve
Biosphere reserve: UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) designation combining conservation, sustainable development, and research in core, buffer, and transition zones; 797 sites in 145 countries, first designated 1976, reviewed every 10 years.
Bir Abraq
Bir Abraq (بئر أبرق) is a spring, village, and Graeco-Roman fort site with rock inscriptions in Egypt's Eastern Desert near the Sudanese border, distinct from Tell Abraq in the UAE; Ptolemaic pottery, 161.5 by 98.5 m fort circuit, perennial sandstone springs.
Bir Ftouha basilica
Bir Ftouha basilica: mid-6th-century early Christian pilgrimage church complex in the northern outskirts of Carthage, Tunisia, with baptistery, martyr cult, and burials; excavated by Delattre, Gauckler, and the 1992 University of Alberta mission.
Bir Madkhur
Bir Madkhur (Bir Madhkur, Bīr Madhkūr) is an archaeological site about 10 km northwest of Petra, Jordan: a Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine caravan station on the Petra-Gaza Incense Route with a Roman fort, bath, and well.
Bir Massouda
Bir Massouda (Bir Messaouda) is a multi-period archaeological site in the Dermech quarter of Carthage, Tunisia, with Phoenician-to-Byzantine occupation, the earliest known North African iron metallurgy, an 8th-century BCE necropolis, and a sixth-century AD pilgrimage basilica.
Bird Wetlands of Hanko and Tammisaari
Bird Wetlands of Hanko and Tammisaari (Ramsar site 1506, Waterfowl habitats of Hanko and Tammisaari), a 55,196 ha Finnish Ramsar wetland designated 2004 in the Gulf of Finland, with flads, gloes, migrating ducks and waders, and Finland's largest Caspian Tern colony.
Bird-Singing Woods
Bird-Singing Woods (鸟语林) is the Chinese name for large walk-through aviary attractions with semi-natural, netted enclosures; notable sites include Dalian Laohutan, Chengdu, Changsha, Fuzhou, and Shihua Cave near Beijing.
Birdhope Camps
Birdhope Camps: three superimposed Roman temporary (marching) camps near Bremenium (High Rochester) fort on Dere Street, Northumberland; largest 12.3 ha, turf ramparts, gates with tituli and clavicula.
Birdpark
A birdpark, or bird park, is a public attraction devoted to displaying live birds in aviaries and walk-through enclosures rather than as part of a general zoo.
Birds (Greece)
Birds (Πτηνά) is a small zoo and tourist attraction in Katerini, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, near the Katerini Municipal Park, housing animals such as deer, peacocks, ducks, and parrots.