Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Botanical gardens in France

France holds 104 recorded botanical gardens, plus 10 in overseas territories, together holding about 300,000 living plant accessions; the oldest, at Montpellier, was founded in 1593 under Henri IV.

Botanical gardens in Kenya

Botanical gardens in Kenya conserve, display, and study the country's living flora across nine recorded gardens, from the Nairobi Botanic Garden to the Brackenhurst Botanic Garden near Limuru.

The botanical gardens of Romania are five major scientific and public collections of living plants, at Iași, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, and Jibou, four of them owned by universities and the oldest founded at Iași in 1856.

Botanical gardens in Seychelles

The National Botanical Garden at Mont Fleuri is a 6-hectare botanical garden on Mahé, Seychelles, founded in 1901 as a crop-introduction station and now a national monument with over 280 plant species.

Botanical gardens in the Balkans

Botanical gardens in the Balkans are scientific and public collections of living plants maintained in the Balkan peninsula, including Belgrade's Jevremovac garden, operating since 1874.

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries are the scientific plant collections of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, linked since 2024 by the Nordic Network of Botanic Gardens.

Botanical gardens of the Pacific islands

The documented botanical gardens of the independent Pacific island states include the National Botanic Gardens in Lae, Papua New Guinea, and gardens in Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji.

Botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus

The botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus are scientific institutions that grow and conserve living plant collections across the Middle East, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus.

Botanical reserve "Arkadivs'kyi"

Botanical reserve "Arkadivs'kyi" (Ботанічний заказник «Аркадівський») is a 22.9-hectare locally significant botanical reserve near Arkadivka village, Kupiansk raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, established 8 February 2007 by Kharkiv Oblast Council decision No. 172-V.

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu (BZA), Brno-Ponava: botanical garden and arboretum of Mendel University, founded 1938 by August Bayer, 11 ha, five sections, 4000 orchid taxa, Iris and Barvy podzimu exhibitions.

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy, the Botanical Garden of Charles University's Faculty of Science, founded 1775 at Smíchov, at Na Slupi 16, Prague 2 since 1898; 3.5 ha, free outdoor areas, paid tropical greenhouse.

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich

Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich: the University of Zurich's botanical garden at Zollikerstrasse 107, opened 27 May 1977 on the Villa Schönau estate, with three acrylic geodesic greenhouse domes and roughly 7,000–8,000 plant species; free entry.

Bothwell Castle

Bothwell Castle: ruined 13th-century Moray family castle on the River Clyde, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; besieged by Edward I in 1301, retaken 1337, rebuilt by Archibald Douglas from 1362; scheduled monument.

Bothwellhaugh

Bothwellhaugh is the site of a Roman fort and bath-house in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, occupied from about 142 to 162 AD as an outpost connected with the Antonine Wall.

Bottomless Lakes State Park

Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico's first state park (1933), near Roswell: a chain of eight sinkhole lakes, 17 to 90 feet deep, fed by artesian groundwater, with swimming at Lea Lake, camping, and trails.

Botzdorf Roman villa

Villa Fortuna, the Botzdorf Roman villa, is a villa rustica in Bornheim, Germany, found in May 2002 with bath, hypocaust, and frescoes; named for a Fortuna statue; conserved from 2014.

Bou Kisnaden

Bou Kisnaden (Bou-Kisnaden) is a Roman villa site near Cherchel and Tipaza, Algeria, in the hinterland of Caesarea in Mauretania Caesariensis. A roughly 2,800 m² courtyard villa with pressing installations, active into late antiquity, recorded by Leveau and Pleiades; partly destroyed by the Tipaza-Cherchel highway.

Boucle du Baoule Biosphere Reserve

Boucle du Baoule Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère de la Boucle du Baoulé), a UNESCO MAB site designated 1982 in western Mali, 200 km northwest of Bamako; 918,000 ha with Boucle du Baoulé National Park, Fina, Kongossambougou, and Badinko reserves, Sudanian-Sahelian savanna, over 300 archaeological sites.

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Boudhanath

Boudhanath, also called Boudha, is a large Buddhist stupa in eastern Kathmandu, Nepal, containing the largest stupa in the country and a major Tibetan pilgrimage site.

Boudoron

Boudoron (Βούδορον), also Budorum, was a 5th-century BC Athenian fort on the northwest promontory of Salamis, built to blockade Megara's harbor; seized by the Peloponnesians in 429 BC and identified with a rubble wall by McLeod in 1960.

Bougainville Peace Park

The Bougainville Peace Park is a city park in Arawa, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, hosting local events showcasing Bougainville heritage.

Bougon

Bougon (Tumulus de Bougon, Nécropole de Bougon): Neolithic burial-mound necropolis at Bougon, Deux-Sèvres, France. Five tumuli plus earthwork D, eight chambers, built 4700–4200 BC, used into the 3rd millennium BC; classified 1960, museum opened 1993.

Boulders Beach

Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, False Bay, Cape Town: Table Mountain National Park site of a mainland African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) colony begun in 1982 with two pairs, one of only two mainland breeding sites, with boardwalks, a No-take marine zone, and about 2,200 birds in recent years.

Bouleuterion at Dodona

Bouleuterion at Dodona: Hellenistic council house (early 3rd century BC, King Pyrrhus) in the Sanctuary of Zeus, Epirus; 43.60 x 32.50 m hall, Doric stoa of 15 columns, seat of the Epirote League, destroyed by the 522-528 AD earthquake.

Boulouris

Boulouris, a seaside resort and lieu-dit of Saint-Raphaël in the Var, France, developed from the 1870s (then named Boulerie) alongside Valescure; also a Roman-era quarry site near Fréjus.

Bourse de commerce (Paris)

Bourse de Commerce (Paris), a circular former grain and commodities exchange at 2 rue de Viarmes, restored by Tadao Ando and opened 22 May 2021 as the Pinault Collection contemporary art museum.

Bovillae

Bovillae (Boville), ancient Latin town on the Via Appia at modern Frattocchie near Marino, Rome; colony of Alba Longa, Julian cult center under Tiberius, scene of Clodius's murder in 52 BC, destroyed by Saracens in AD 846.

Bow Bridge

Bow Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria: a late 15th-century (c. 1490-1500) three-arched stone packhorse bridge over Mill Beck, built by Furness Abbey monks to reach their New Mill; scheduled monument 1011245 since 1949, distinct from Bow Bridge in Somerset or London.

Bowes Moor

Bowes Moor, County Durham: Pennine moorland on the Stainmore Pass with a Roman temporary camp (56 m across, dated 340-350 AD), an adjacent signal station, the Rey Cross marching camp, a Roman aqueduct, and the fort of Lavatrae.