Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Blekinge skärgård

Blekinge skärgård (Blekinge archipelago), Ramsar Site no. 1115 in Blekinge County, southeast Sweden, designated 14 November 2001, 12,958 ha of islands, marshes and shallow Baltic waters with over 100 red-listed species and 20,000 waterbirds.

Blenheim Roman villa

Blenheim Roman villa, also called Begbroke villa, is a scheduled 3rd-4th century Roman villa and field system southeast of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, found well preserved under Blenheim Estate farmland, distinct from the grand North Leigh villa.

Blera

Blera (ancient Blera, medieval Bieda), Lazio, Italy: Etruscan town on the Via Clodia at the Ricanale-Biedano confluence, later a Roman municipium and 5th-century bishopric, destroyed by Lombards in 772; noted for rock-cut tombs and ongoing Petrolo plateau excavations.

Bliznet͡sy

Bliznet͡sy (Близнецы, "Twins") are two large kurgans on the southern outskirts of Dnipro, Ukraine. Bliznets-2, excavated 2007, is a major 5th-century BC Scythian elite burial, second in the region only to Solokha.

Bloukion

Bloukion (Greek Βλούκιον, Latinized Blucium) was a Galatian fortress and the royal residence of King Deiotaros, identified with a hill near Karalar, Ankara Province, Turkey.

Blue and John Crow Mountains

Blue and John Crow Mountains: Jamaica's first UNESCO World Heritage site (2015, mixed, criteria iii, vi, x), a 26,252 ha montane rainforest in eastern Jamaica, refuge of the Windward Maroons and a Caribbean biodiversity hotspot.

Blue Mountains National Park

Blue Mountains National Park is a protected area in New South Wales, Australia, established in 1959 and part of the Greater Blue Mountains Area, World Heritage listed in 2000.

Blue plaque

Blue plaque: round ceramic marker on London buildings noting where notable people lived or worked; scheme begun 1866 by the Society of Arts, run by English Heritage since 1986, over 1,000 plaques.

Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile National Park Service scenic road linking Shenandoah to Great Smoky Mountains national parks; begun in 1935, it is often called America's Favorite Drive.

Blue Wildebeest (site)

Blue Wildebeest (蓝角马) is a zoo enclosure in Longsha Zoological and Botanical Garden, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China; OpenStreetMap node 13042316258 at 47.38°N, 123.94°E, named for the blue wildebeest antelope, distinct from same-named places in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Blue Zoo Beijing

Blue Zoo Beijing, also known as Beijing Gongti Richina Underwater World, is an indoor aquarium beneath Beijing Workers' Stadium, the city's first seawater aquarium, built with New Zealand.

Bo-Kaap

Bo-Kaap, formerly the Malay Quarter/Schotschekloof, is Cape Town's oldest surviving residential district (est. 1767), centre of Cape Muslim life, Grade I heritage site (2019), known for colourful houses, Auwal Mosque, and gentrification disputes.

Boating (site)

Boating (Člnkovanie, Bootfahren) is the boat-rental attraction at Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, the site classed as the area's only theme park, with 22 boats, a 130-year history, and strict nature-protection rules.

Boca de Potrerillos

Boca de Potrerillos, an INAH archaeological zone in Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico, 80 km from Monterrey. Petroglyphs on over 4,000 rocks, hunter-gatherer occupation from about 8,000 years ago to 1760; opened to the public in 1995.

Bocana del Rio Copalita

Bocana del Río Copalita, a pre-Hispanic ceremonial site on the Oaxaca coast near Bahías de Huatulco, Mexico, occupied from the Middle Preclassic, with an Acropolis, Temple of the Serpent, ballcourt, and cliff navigation stela in the Copalita Eco-Archeological Park.

Bochastle

Bochastle: Roman fort, temporary camp, and prehistoric enclosures near Callander, Stirling, Scotland; scheduled monument SM2389. Agricolan 1st-century fort of about 3 ha with 550 m by 380 m marching camp, distinct from the Dunmore hillfort also called Bochastle.

Boclair

Boclair, Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire: site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall, postulated for decades and confirmed in 2017 during house-extension investigations; stone rampart base and ditch published as ARO65.

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Bodhisattva of Dong Duong

The Bodhisattva of Dong Duong is a large bronze statue of a female bodhisattva, found at the Dong Duong Buddhist monastery in Quang Nam, central Vietnam, dating to the ninth or tenth century.

Bodobrica

Bodobrica is a late Roman fortification located in Boppard, Germany, on the Rhine. Built in the 4th century AD, it features massive towers that remain highly preserved.

Bogaczewo-Kula

Bogaczewo-Kula (Kullabrücke/Bogatzewen) is a large Bogaczewo culture cremation cemetery near Giżycko, Poland, with 444 excavated graves, phases B–E, spurs and weapon graves, later reused by the Olsztyn group.

Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark

Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark (Český ráj), Czechia's first geopark, designated 2015; 83,300 ha sandstone rock cities, monogenetic volcanoes, billion-year geological record, and Mount Kozákov at 744 m.

Böhming

Kastell Böhming, Roman fort no. 56 on the Raetian Limes in Kipfenberg, Bavaria; founded mid-2nd century AD, rebuilt in stone in 181 under Commodus by legio III Italica, garrison up to 200 men, destroyed mid-3rd century.

Bohol Butterfly Bonsai Garden

Bohol Butterfly Bonsai Garden, a zoo and butterfly attraction near Loay, Bohol, Philippines, about 41 km from Tagbilaran City; combines butterfly breeding and bonsai displays on the countryside tour circuit near XZootic Park.

Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark

Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 2023, is the Philippines' first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, an 8,808 km² karst and marine landscape featuring the Chocolate Hills and Danajon Double Barrier Reef.

Boin villa

Boin villa: Gallo-Roman villa at Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries, Corrèze, France, built around 212, with pars urbana and pars rustica; excavated 1972–1975 by Robert Joudoux and classified a historical monument on 1 September 1988.

Bois de Boulogne

Bois de Boulogne: 846-hectare public woodland in Paris's 16th arrondissement, former royal hunting ground (forêt de Rouvray), redesigned from 1852 under Napoleon III by Hittorff, Alphand, and Haussmann, with lakes, Bagatelle, and the Jardin d'Acclimatation.

Bois de Vincennes

Bois de Vincennes (originally Vilcena) is Paris' largest green space, a 995-hectare wooded park on the city's east, a former royal hunting forest landscaped under Napoleon III, with four lakes, the Parc Zoologique de Paris, and the Parc Floral.

Bois des Lens Quarries

Bois des Lens quarries (carrières du Bois des Lens): ancient Roman and later limestone quarries in the Gard, France, 20-25 km northwest of Nîmes, producing fine white Urgonian oolitic limestone used for the Maison Carrée and exported between Nice and Narbonne.

Bois-Vert

Bois-Vert, former open-pit tin mine at Abbaretz, Loire-Atlantique, France, worked 1952-1957 by the SNMO (3,750 t cassiterite) on a Gallo-Roman mining site; now a leisure area with acid drainage issues.