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Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Busch Gardens Williamsburg, originally Busch Gardens: The Old Country, is a European-themed amusement park in Williamsburg, Virginia, opened May 16, 1975, with nine villages, over 50 rides, 10 coasters including the Loch Ness Monster, and Water Country USA nearby.
Bush Farm fort
Bush Farm fort: Roman turf and timber fort at Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, Wales (NPRN 801081), identified from cropmarks by Toby Driver in 2024; triple ditches, about 1.7 ha internal, possibly linked to invasions of Anglesey.
Bussana
Bussana is a locality in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy, where the remains of a Roman villa of about the 1st to 2nd century AD stand along the via Iulia Augusta.
Bussock Camp (United Kingdom)
Bussock Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in Bussock Wood near Chieveley, West Berkshire, England, its banks and ditches surviving as wooded remains and protected as a scheduled monument.
Buston VI Necropolis
Buston VI is a late Bronze Age Sapalli culture necropolis in Surkhandarya, southern Uzbekistan, excavated 1990–2008 by Nona Avanesova; a fire-cult burial and ceremonial site with crematoria, cenotaphs, and about 400 burials.
Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens, a 55-acre display garden in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, created from 1904 by Jennie Butchart in an exhausted limestone quarry; National Historic Site of Canada since 2004, family run, over one million visitors yearly.
Butrint
Butrint (ancient Buthrotum), southern Albania: Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Venetian city abandoned in the late Middle Ages; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992; excavated since 1928, first by Ugolini's Italian mission.
Butrium
Butrium (Butrio, Greek Boutorion), small Roman vicus of Ravenna in Gallia Cispadana, on the via Popilia 6 miles north of Ravenna toward Altinum; Umbrian origin per Pliny, located near Sant'Alberto, distinct from Butrint and Budrio.
Butterfly Farm (Malaysia)
Butterfly Farm (Malaysia): live butterfly attractions including Entopia by Penang Butterfly Farm (founded 1986, Teluk Bahang), Melaka Butterfly and Reptile Sanctuary (1987), and Cameron Highlands farms at Kea Farm, featuring Rajah Brooke's birdwing.
Butzbach
Butzbach, a town of about 25,000 in the Wetteraukreis, Hesse, first recorded 773, chartered 1321, holds two Roman Limes fort sites (Hunneburg, Degerfeld), a cohort fort garrisoned from after 90 CE, and a reconstructed watchtower.
Bưu điện
Bưu điện (Vietnamese for post office) denotes Vietnam's postal system and VNPost, whose network spans 13,000 service points, plus the Bưu ĐIEN e-commerce marketplace, Bưu điện Hospital, PTI insurance, and postal tourism.
Buxio
Buxio, also Le Buz: a late antique Gallo-Roman villa named in the 7th-century Life of Saint Didier of Cahors, tentatively identified near Vabre, Tarn, France; known only from text, with villa remains reported in the 1940s.
Büyük Bedesten Wall Fort
Büyük Bedesten Wall Fort, a Late Roman fort on the inner face of the Anastasian Wall (Long Walls of Thrace) in Turkish Thrace, 32 by 64 m with corner towers, an 80 m outer ditch, and the best surviving fort of the line.
Buzău Land UNESCO Global Geopark
Buzău Land UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparcul Internațional UNESCO Ținutul Buzăului), designated 2022 in Romania's Carpathian Bend Area: 1,036 km², 45,000 people, mud volcanoes, 46 salt caves, rumanite amber, managed by Buzău Land NGO.
Buziaş
Buziaş (Buziás, Busiasch) is a town and spa resort located in Banat, western Romania. The settlement, known since the Roman period as Ahibis, is renowned for its carbonated mineral waters.
Byrsted
Byrsted, Himmerland, Jutland, Denmark: village with a rich Early Roman Iron Age chieftain's grave (two silver cups, bronze dish, silver fibula), the Byrsted Hede Celtic field system, and a passage grave; Barrington Atlas 2 E2.
Byzantine fortress at Timgad
Byzantine fortress at Timgad (Thamugadi), Algeria: rectangular 6th-century fort built by the patrician Solomon in 539/540, 120 x 80 m with eight towers, reusing Roman blocks; the only Byzantine African fortification fully excavated.
Byzantine fortress, Ammaedara
The Byzantine fortress of Ammaedara (Haïdra citadel) is a 6th-century Justinianic fortress of about 2.5 ha at the heart of Ammaedara, Tunisia, built of Roman spolia, with two churches, cisterns, and control of the Carthage–Theveste road junction.
Caatinga Biosphere Reserve
Caatinga Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2001 in northeastern Brazil, protecting 28,683,650 ha of semiarid thorn forest with over 53 million inhabitants, linked to the Mata Atlântica and Cerrado reserves.
Caballucome
Caballucome: a Roman road station in Lycaonia, Asia Minor, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana, identified with Kulak Murat Han near Eğribayat, about 36 km north-northeast of Konya.
Cabalsi
Cabalsi (also Cabau, Gabaum, Kabalsi) was a Roman road station on the Coptos–Berenike route in Egypt's Eastern Desert, identified with Abu Ghusun, attested in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.
Cabarceno Natural Park
Cabarceno Natural Park (Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno), a 750-hectare wildlife park in Cantabria, Spain, opened 10 June 1990 on a former iron mine; over 1,000 animals of about 100 species in semi-freedom, EAZA, AIZA, and WAZA member.
Cabbagetown, Toronto
Cabbagetown, Toronto: historic east-central Toronto neighbourhood, also called Don Vale, named for 1840s Irish immigrants' cabbage gardens; preserved Victorian housing, HCD designations, Regent Park history.
Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park
Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar), Andalusia's first maritime-terrestrial protected area, declared 27 January 1988 in Almería: 49,512 ha of volcanic coast, semi-arid steppe, Ramsar salinas, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and Global Geopark.
Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve
Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos), UNESCO MAB site designated 2005 in Chile's Magallanes Region; largest biosphere reserve in the Southern Cone, spanning sub-Antarctic forests, fjords, and marine areas at 55–56° S.
Cabu Abbas
Cabu Abbas (Riu Mulinu): Nuragic hilltop complex at Olbia, Sardinia, with a single-tower nuraghe, 220 m rampart, ritual well, and bronze figurine; also a Torralba toponym.
Caçapava UNESCO Global Geopark
Caçapava UNESCO Global Geopark, a 3,047 km² geopark in Caçapava do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, designated by UNESCO in 2023; Camaquã basin Ediacaran-Cambrian geosites, mining heritage, and Guarani, quilombola, and rancher communities.
Cache Creek Casino
Cache Creek Casino Resort is a tribal casino in Brooks, California, owned by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and opened as a bingo hall in 1985.
Cache-Lower White Rivers
Cache-Lower White Rivers: Ramsar Wetland of International Importance (site 442, designated 21 Nov 1989) in east central Arkansas, 99,166 ha of bottomland hardwoods and oxbow lakes; key Wood Duck breeding and Mallard wintering area.
Cacique Lempira, Senor de las Montanas Biosphere Reserve
Cacique Lempira Señor de las Montañas Biosphere Reserve, western Honduras UNESCO MAB site designated 2015, centered on Celaque National Park, Cerro Las Minas 2,849 m, 168,634 ha, mostly Lenca population.