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Bojeux Parc Children's Amusement Park
Bojeux Parc, also recorded as Beaux Jeux, was a children's amusement park in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, that became a free medical clinic after the 2010 earthquake.
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens, also called Historic Bok Sanctuary, is a National Historic Landmark garden and 205-foot Singing Tower with a 60-bell carillon in Lake Wales, Florida, dedicated by President Coolidge on February 1, 1929.
Bokerley Dyke
Bokerley Dyke (also Bokerley Ditch) is a 5.75 km linear earthwork on Martin Down, Cranborne Chase, forming the Dorset-Hampshire boundary. Bronze Age or Early Iron Age origin, remodelled in the late Roman period (phases c. AD 325-30, after 364, after 393-5), cutting the Old Sarum-Badbury Roman road at Bokerley Junction.
Bolʹshoĭ Salbykskiĭ kurgan
Bolʹshoĭ Salbykskiĭ kurgan (Большой Салбыкский курган), Great Salbyk barrow, royal Tagar-culture burial mound in the Salbyk Valley, Khakassia; 70×70 m megalithic fence, stelae to 50 tons, excavated by Kiselev 1954–1956, dated about 670 BC.
Bolama-Bijagos Biosphere Reserve
Bolama-Bijagós Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site since 1996, is an 88-island archipelago off Guinea-Bissau covering 1,047,953 ha, Africa's most important green sea turtle nesting site and a Ramsar wetland.
Bölcske
Bölcske (Tolna County, Hungary), village on the Danube limes with a late Roman fortified river port and counter-fort in the Danube bed, Teutanus altars, and the Leányvár watchtower.
Boldt Castle
Boldt Castle is a six-story, 120-room Rhineland-style castle on Heart Island near Alexandria Bay, New York, begun in 1900 by hotelier George C. Boldt for his wife Louise, halted at her 1904 death, and restored by the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority since 1977.
Bolghar
Bolghar (Bolgar, Болгар) is a medieval city site on the Volga in Tatarstan, capital of Volga Bulgaria and first capital of the Golden Horde, where Islam was adopted in 922; a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2014 and Tatar Muslim pilgrimage destination.
Bollywood Parks Dubai
Bollywood Parks Dubai, also called Bollywood Park, was the world's first Bollywood-themed amusement park at Dubai Parks and Resorts, Jebel Ali; opened 31 October 2016, closed permanently 20 April 2023, later partly redeveloped as Real Madrid World.
Boma–Badingilo Migratory Landscape
The Boma–Badingilo Migratory Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Sudan, inscribed in 2026 and hosting the Great Nile Migration of about six million antelope.
Bona Dea Subsaxana, Aedes
Aedes Bona Deae Subsaxanae: temple of the Roman goddess Bona Dea on the Aventine below the Saxum cliff; a women-only healing sanctuary restored by Livia and Hadrian, attested in Regio XII, with no identified remains.
Bonanza Exotic Park
Bonanza Exotic Park (สวนสัตว์โบนันซ่าเอ็กโซติกซู), also Bonanza Exotic Zoo, is a small private zoo in Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, near Khao Yai, Thailand, with over 50 species on a 700-meter circular path, feeding activities, and 150-baht adult admission.
Boncuklu Tarla
Boncuklu Tarla, a Neolithic settlement mound in Dargeçit, Mardin Province, Turkey, occupied from the Late Epipaleolithic to Late PPNB (about 11,000-8,000 BC), known for burial labret earrings and finds reportedly older than Göbekli Tepe.
Bonna
Bonna is the Roman name for the settlement and legionary fortress at modern Bonn, Germany, first recorded by Florus (13-9 BC). Known for its 27.8-hectare Legio I Minervia fortress, part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site.
Bonsai Garden (China)
Bonsai Garden (盆景园) is the Chinese garden type dedicated to displaying penjing, the Chinese art of miniature potted trees and landscapes. Notable examples include the Bao Family Garden in Huangshan (nearly 10,000 penjing, 21.73 ha), the National Botanical Garden in Beijing (20,000 m2), and Fairy Lake Botanical Garden in Shenzhen.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Park Service site in Franklin County, Virginia, preserving the tobacco farm where Washington was born into slavery in 1856.
Bool and Hacks Lagoons
Bool and Hacks Lagoons: Ramsar wetland complex near Naracoorte, South Australia, listed 1 November 1985, about 3,200 ha, comprising Bool Lagoon Game Reserve and Hacks Lagoon Conservation Park; major waterbird drought refuge and brolga flocking ground.
Boot Hill
Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the name of many Old West cemeteries for those who died violently 'with their boots on'; the first was at Hays, Kansas, with Dodge City's the most famous.
Boothby Roman fort (United Kingdom)
Boothby Roman fort, or Castle Hill Boothby, is a late first to second century AD Roman fortlet on the Stanegate near Brampton, Cumberland, England; scheduled monument 1014585, excavated by Simpson in 1933.
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (Port de la Lune): UNESCO World Heritage historic center of Bordeaux, France, inscribed 2007 under criteria ii and iv; 1,731 ha Enlightenment-era classical ensemble named for the crescent of the Garonne.
Bordj-Hellal
Bordj-Hellal (Bordj Hallal, Henchir Bordj Hellal; modern Sidi Slama) is an archaeological ruin in Jendouba Governorate, Tunisia, possibly Roman Thunusuda, with a pre-Roman phase, a Justinianic Byzantine pentagonal fortress of fifteen towers, and medieval occupation evidence.
Borg Roman villa
Borg Roman villa (Römische Villa Borg), a large 7.5-hectare Roman villa rustica near Perl, Saarland, Germany; excavated since 1986 and reconstructed on its foundations as an archaeological park showing the 2nd–3rd century AD estate.
Bornitz
Bornitz is the name of several small settlements in eastern Germany: a village with a medieval manor east of Oschatz in Saxony and a street village in Elsteraue, Saxony-Anhalt.
Bosawas Biosphere Reserve
Bosawas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Bosawás), Nicaragua's largest biosphere reserve and Central America's largest, established 1991, UNESCO biosphere 1997, home to Mayangna and Miskitu peoples, heavily affected by deforestation and illegal cattle ranching.
Boscoreale
Boscoreale, a town north of Pompeii at the foot of Vesuvius, ancient Pagus Augustus Felix Suburbanus, known for about thirty excavated Roman villae rusticae, the Boscoreale Treasure, the Fannius Synistor frescoes, and the visitable Villa Regina.
Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve
Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera del Bosque Mbaracayú), Paraguay's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2000), centers on a 64,405.7-ha private Atlantic Forest reserve in Canindeyú created in 1991 and managed by Fundación Moisés Bertoni.
Bosque Seco Biosphere Reserve
Bosque Seco Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site (2014) of 501,040 ha of tropical dry forest in Loja and El Oro, Ecuador; since 2017 part of the Bosques de Paz transboundary reserve with Peru.
Bosques de Neblina - Selva Central Biosphere Reserve
Bosques de Neblina - Selva Central Biosphere Reserve, Peru's sixth UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 26 November 2020 in Junín region; 857,400 ha of Andean-Amazon cloud forest, core zones Pampa Hermosa and Pui Pui, Quechua and Ashaninka communities.
Bosques Templados Lluviosos de los Andes Australes Biosphere Reserve
Bosques Templados Lluviosos de los Andes Australes Biosphere Reserve, a Chilean UNESCO MAB reserve designated 2007 in Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions, protecting 2,168,956 ha of Valdivian temperate rainforest with Mapuche-Huilliche communities.
Bostel
Bostel (Bostel di Rotzo) is an Iron Age hilltop settlement at Castelletto di Rotzo, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, at 850 m on the Asiago Plateau. Known since 1781, excavated 1912, 1969, and by the University of Padova since 1993; Second Iron Age Venetic-Raetic border village, mid-5th to 2nd century BC.