Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Abbazia San Claudio al Chienti

San Claudio al Chienti is a Romanesque church in the Chienti valley near Corridonia, Marche, Italy, documented from the 11th century and despite its name actually a rural parish church.

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe (Abbatiale de Saint-Savin), the 'Romanesque Sistine Chapel' in Vienne, France: an 11th-century hall church with about 420 m² of Romanesque murals, UNESCO World Heritage since 1983.

Abbey of Saint Gall

Abbey of Saint Gall (Fürstabtei St. Gallen), a Benedictine abbey in St Gallen, Switzerland, a 1983 UNESCO World Heritage Site, secularized 1805, with a Baroque cathedral, the 1767 rococo Abbey Library of about 160,000 volumes, and the 9th-century Plan of Saint Gall.

Abbey San Encino

Abbey San Encino, also called Oldstone Abbey, is a stone Arts and Crafts home at 6211 Arroyo Glen, Highland Park, Los Angeles, built by printer Clyde Browne from 1915; LA HCM #106 and Jackson Browne's childhood home.

Abbeyknockmoy abbey

Abbeyknockmoy Abbey (Knockmoy Abbey, Mainistir Chnoc Muaidhe) is a ruined Cistercian abbey in County Galway, Ireland, founded 1189/1190 by King Cathal Crobhdearg O'Connor, settled from Boyle Abbey, noted for rare medieval wall paintings and the first ribbed vaulting in Ireland.

Abbotsbury Castle

Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age triangular bivallate hillfort on Wears Hill near Abbotsbury, Dorset, about 4 ha, with four ramparts at its SE end; 1970s excavation disproved a Roman signal station.

Abel Tasman National Park

Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand's smallest national park (22,530 ha), at the top of the South Island; established 1942, famed for the 60 km Abel Tasman Coast Track and restored by Project Janszoon.

Abercyfor

Abercyfor is a lost Roman site near Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, in Llandyfaelog. A late 18th-century find of a tessellated pavement and late Roman coin hoard suggests a villa destroyed in the late 3rd or early 4th century; its exact location is unknown.

Abohar Mound

Abohar Mound, the ASI-listed 'Mound known as Mud Fort' in Fazilka district, Punjab, is a 60-foot, 9-acre protected Harappan-to-medieval mound on the dry Ghaggar bed, notified in 1941.

Abrolhos Marine National Park

Abrolhos Marine National Park (Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos), Brazil's first marine national park, created 1983 off Bahia; Ramsar site 1902; protects chapeirões coral reefs and the humpback whale nursery. Distinct from Australia's Abrolhos Marine Park.

Abrud (Romania)

Abrud (Abrudbánya) is a town in Alba County, Transilvania, Romania, in the Apuseni Mountains at the gate of Țara Moților. Roman Alburnus Minor with a castellum; first attested 1271; free city 1491; about 4,800 inhabitants in 2021.

Abu Ballas Trail

Abu Ballas Trail, pharaonic donkey-caravan route of about 400 km from Dakhla Oasis to the Gilf Kebir, Egypt, marked by water-jar depots and alamat cairns; used from about 2200 BC, earliest known trans-Saharan trade route.

Abu Greiya (Egypt)

Abu Greiya (Wadi Abu Greiya), Eastern Desert of Egypt: ancient road station usually identified with Vetus Hydreuma on the Berenike-Edfu road; Barrington Atlas 80 F3, Pleiades 786042; five Ptolemaic to late Roman forts and Roman cemeteries at Bint Abu Greiya.

Abu Mena

Abu Mena (Abu Mina; أبو مينا) is an early Christian pilgrimage city south of Alexandria, Egypt, built over the tomb of Saint Menas (d. 296). World Heritage Site since 1979; on the danger list 2001–2025 due to rising groundwater, removed in July 2025 after a drainage system stabilized the water table.

Abu Nafisa

Abu Nafisa fort, a ruined 6th-century AD quadrilateral fort near Omdurman, Sudan, built by the Kingdom of Alwa, c. 86x84 m, named after a Funj-period sheikh buried in its corner.

Abu Sha'ar

Abu Sha'ar ('Abu Shaar) is an archaeological site on Egypt's Red Sea coast, 20 km north of Hurghada: a late Roman fort built AD 309-311 for a mounted ala, later a monastic site with a church, twenty game boards, and a road to the Nile.

Aburi Botanical Gardens

Aburi Botanical Gardens is a 64-hectare botanical garden at Aburi, Ghana, opened in 1890 on the Akuapem Ridge, where colonial crop trials tested cocoa, coffee, and rubber.

Abusina

Abusina: Roman auxiliary cohort fort and vicus at Eining, Bavaria, at the eastern end of the Upper German-Raetian Limes on the Danube. Founded about 80 AD, garrisoned by cohors III Britannorum, occupied into the 5th century; known for its lead curse tablets.

Abusir South

Abusir South is the southern section of the Czech archaeological concession in Egypt's Memphite necropolis, holding First and Second Dynasty tombs (the Bonnet cemetery) and Old Kingdom officials' mastabas such as those of Kaaper, Fetekti, and Qar, with 109 recorded structures.

Acadia National Park

Acadia National Park is a national park on the coast of Maine, first established east of the Mississippi and known for Cadillac Mountain and its carriage roads.

Acanceh

Acanceh, a Maya archaeological site in Yucatan, Mexico, about 28 km southeast of Merida; name means 'moan of the deer'. Preclassic-to-Classic center with a Pyramid bearing eight stucco masks and the Palace of the Stuccos.

Accu Sa Pira Nuraghe

Accu Sa Pira Nuraghe is a Bronze Age nuraghe (stone tower) west of Villasimius, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, at 39.137679N 9.508935E; catalog code 8723 in the Regional Landscape Plan.

Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve

Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve: interstate Indian biosphere reserve (3,835.51 km2) in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, notified 30 March 2005, UNESCO WNBR 2012, source of the Narmada, Johila, and Sone rivers.

Acharnes ancient theater

Acharnes ancient theater (Αρχαίο Θέατρο Αχαρνών): deme theater of ancient Acharnai, Attica, found 2007 at 21 Salaminos Street; 11 limestone seat rows, 13.5 m horseshoe orchestra, first half of 4th century BC.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, formerly Company Bagan and Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta, is a 273-acre Botanical Survey of India garden in Shibpur, Howrah, founded in 1787 by Robert Kyd, home of the Great Banyan Tree.

Achilleion Palace Garden

Achilleion Palace Garden, Corfu: the sculpture gardens of Empress Elisabeth's 1891 palace at Gastouri, with the Peristyle of the Muses, 19th-century Roman statues in the Canova-Thorvaldsen circle, replanted by Kaiser Wilhelm II after 1907.

Achna

Achna (Άχνα, Akhna) is an ancient open-air sanctuary of a goddess near the old village of Achna, Cyprus, between Larnaca and Salamis. Excavated once in 1882 by Ohnefalsch-Richter, it yielded over a thousand mostly female votive figures.

Acidava

Acidava (Acidaua on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Enoșești, Piatra-Olt, Olt County, Romania, garrisoned by cohors I Flavia Commagenorum in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, part of the limes Alutanus and UNESCO's Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia.

Acitodunum

Acitodunum is the name on the ancient Roman road map, the Peutinger table, for a major settlement identified with the modern town of Ahun in central France.