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Bukit Gambang Resort City
Bukit Gambang Resort City (BGRC) is a 727-acre integrated resort in Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, developed by Sentoria Group. Known for its East Coast water park, Malaysia's largest safari park, and MICE ballroom; closed after the 2020 Movement Control Order.
Bükk Region UNESCO Global Geopark
Bükk Region UNESCO Global Geopark (Bükk-vidék UNESCO Globális Geopark), designated 2024 in northern Hungary: 2,817 km2, 109 municipalities, over 1,100 caves, 300-million-year geological record, managed by Bükk National Park Directorate.
Bulci
Bulci (Hungarian Bulcs), village in Bata commune, Arad County, Banat, Romania, on the Mureș River. Site La Cetate holds a Roman castrum of Legio XIII Gemina, a 10th-12th-century earthwork fort, and a Benedictine abbey documented from 1225.
Bulgarian St. Stephen Church
Bulgarian St. Stephen Church (Sveti Stefan, Iron Church), Bulgarian Orthodox church in Balat, Istanbul, built of prefabricated cast iron made in Vienna by Rudolph Waagner, 1896–1898, designed by Hovsep Aznavur; restored 2018.
Bull Ring, Birmingham
Bull Ring, Birmingham: market site at the city's core since a 1166 charter; 1964 £8m shopping centre demolished 2000; current Bullring opened 2003 with Future Systems' Selfridges and 36.5 million first-year visitors.
Bullsdown Camp
Bullsdown Camp, an Iron Age multivallate hillfort at Bramley, Hampshire, near the Loddon and Bow Brook confluence; unexcavated scheduled monument 1001944, surveyed 1915 and 2017.
Bumbeşti
Bumbeşti (Bumbeşti-Jiu, Gorj, Romania): site of two Roman auxiliary forts on the Jiu river at the Jiu defile, built earth-and-timber by cohors IV Cypria and a Legio V Macedonica detachment, rebuilt in stone in AD 201, with canabae and thermae.
Bumper cars
Bumper cars (dodgems, Autoscooter, peng peng che): small electric amusement-ride vehicles with rubber bumper rings, ridden in arenas where deliberate collisions are the point. Patented by Stoehrer & Pratt in 1921; powered by ceiling grid, floor grid, or batteries.
Bunaken Tangkoko Minahasa Biosphere Reserve
Bunaken Tangkoko Minahasa Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer), North Sulawesi, Indonesia: UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 28 October 2020, 746,405.92 ha in the Coral Triangle, over 130 mammal species, core areas Bunaken National Park and Tangkoko.
Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill Monument: 221-foot granite obelisk on Breed's Hill, Charlestown, Boston, commemorating the June 17, 1775 Revolutionary War battle; built 1825–1843 by the BHMA, NPS site with 294 stairs.
Bunratty Folk Park
Bunratty Folk Park, a 26-acre open-air museum in County Clare, Ireland, recreating a 19th-century Irish village beside restored 1425 Bunratty Castle; opened July 1964, run by Clare County Council since 2023.
Burabay Biosphere Reserve
Burabay Biosphere Reserve (Бурабай), a UNESCO MAB site in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, designated 15 June 2022 on the basis of Burabay National Park; lake-studded forest-steppe with 277 vertebrate species and about 136,019 ha.
Burgast
Burgast (Бургаст) is a multi-period archaeological site in the Mongolian Altai, Bayan-Ölgii, with an Eneolithic structure, a Bronze Age khirgisuur, a 2nd-century CE Bulan-Kobin cemetery with a silk-dressed child mummy, and Türkic remains.
Burgenae
Burgenae: Roman auxiliary fort and settlement on the Danube limes in Pannonia inferior, at modern Novi Banovci, Serbia; garrisoned by cohors I Thracum civium Romanorum and, in Late Antiquity, equites Dalmatae and cuneus equitum Constantianorum.
Burgess Falls State Park
Burgess Falls State Park, also Burgess Falls State Natural Area, is a day-use Tennessee state park in Putnam and White Counties where the Falling Water River drops nearly 250 feet over three waterfalls, the last plunging more than 130 feet.
Burginatium
Burginatium (Altkalkar, Kalkar-Bornsches Feld): Roman cavalry fort on the Lower German Limes, Rhine bank near Xanten; 3 ha fort reduced to 2 ha in Late Antiquity, with large vicus and UNESCO status.
Burgstall am Schlern cult site
Burgstall am Schlern cult site, also known as Monte Castello, is a prehistoric burnt-offering place on the Schlern massif in South Tyrol, Italy, used since the Early Bronze Age.
Burgus Speculatorius Commodianus
Burgus Speculatorius Commodianus, a Roman surveillance watchtower in Numidia at Loth Bordj, Algeria, founded under Commodus (CIL 8.2494); Barrington Atlas 34 D2, paired with the Antoninianus tower at Ksar Sidi el Hadj.
Burgus Szentendre-Dera
Burgus Szentendre-Dera is a late Roman fortified Danube landing place (burgus, bridgehead) at Szentendre, Hungary, with an approximately 20 × 20 m tower, dated Constantius II/Valentinian I, securing the Pannonian limes near Ulcisia Castra.
Buridava Roman Fort and Vicus
Buridava Roman Fort and Vicus is an archaeological site at Stolniceni, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania, on the Olt River, occupied by the Roman army from AD 101–102.
Burkhan Khaldun
Burkhan Khaldun is a sacred mountain in Mongolia's Khentii range, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2015, one of four mountains designated by Chinggis Khan, his reputed birth and burial place, tied to The Secret History of the Mongols.
Burlafingen
Burlafingen, a parish village in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, is the site of a small Roman Danube-frontier fort built around 40 AD, excavated in 1984, with a turf wall, two ditches, and an 80-man garrison used only 2 to 3 years.
Burnswark Hill Roman Camp
Burnswark Hill Roman Camps: two Roman military earthworks flanking an Iron Age hillfort in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, debated as siege works or a training ground; rich in lead sling bullets, ballista balls, and whistling ammunition.
Burnt Palace at Kalhu
Burnt Palace at Kalhu: small Assyrian royal building on Nimrud's citadel, beside Nabu's temple; named for ash over its throne-room, held ivories, used by Sargon II before Dur-Sharrukin.
Burr Oak Cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois: historic African American cemetery founded 1927, resting place of Emmett Till, Dinah Washington, Willie Dixon; site of the 2009 grave-reselling scandal and 2026 National Register listing.
Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark
Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark: a 530 km² glaciokarst landscape in County Clare, Ireland, designated 2011, UNESCO-listed 2015, revalidated 2024, managed with Clare County Council.
Burrium
Burrium (Burrio, Bvrrivm) was a Roman legionary fortress at Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, built c. AD 54 against the Silures, garrisoned by Legio XX, and replaced by Caerleon in the AD 70s.
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire is a UNESCO World Heritage site of eight locations in Bursa and Cumalıkızık, Türkiye, inscribed in 2014.
Bursa Hayvanat Bahçesi (Turkey)
Bursa Hayvanat Bahçesi (Bursa Zoo), a municipal EAZA-member zoo in Soğanlı, Osmangazi, Bursa, opened 10 November 1998 on about 206,600 m², holding over 1,000 animals of 115–137 species beside Botanik Park.
Busch Gardens
Busch Gardens: two United Parks & Resorts theme parks, Tampa Bay (opened 1959 as an Anheuser-Busch brewery bird sanctuary) and Williamsburg (1975, "The Old Country"), combining coasters, shows, and AZA-accredited zoos.