Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Caister-on-Sea

Caister-on-Sea Roman Fort (NHER 8675): Saxon Shore fort in Norfolk, England, built about AD 200 for a Roman army and navy unit with a 500–1,000 man garrison, occupied to the late 4th century, excavated 1951–55 by Charles Green.

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Cajamarquilla

Cajamarquilla is a large pre-Hispanic adobe city in the Rímac valley east of Lima, Peru, built by the Lima culture and later reoccupied by the Ychsma from about 1000 AD.

Calagorris

Calagorris (Calagurris, Calagorra): name of two Roman-era settlements, the mansio Calagorris Convenarum at Saint-Martory, France, on the Toulouse-Dax road, and Calagurris Iulia Nassica at Calahorra, Spain, Sertorius's ally destroyed by Pompey in 72 BC.

Calagum

Calagum (also Caliacum/Calacum), a Roman road station and three-road junction in Gallia Lugdunensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana, generally identified with Chailly-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), France, on the via Agrippa between Meaux and the Troyes road.

Calatrava Volcanoes. Ciudad Real UNESCO Global Geopark

Calatrava Volcanoes. Ciudad Real UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque Volcanes de Calatrava), designated by UNESCO in March 2024 in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: a 4,015 km2 monogenetic volcanic field of maars and scoria cones, plus Almadén mercury and Puertollano fossils.

Calaveras Big Trees State Park

Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a California state park near Arnold established 1931, preserves North and South groves of giant sequoias first publicized by Augustus T. Dowd's 1852 discovery, with prescribed fire management since the 1970s.

Calcaria Solarium

Calcaria Solarium: Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Antonine Itinerary between Massilia and Fossae Marianae, identified with Calas near Aix-en-Provence; name means lime kilns.

Caldes de Montbui

Caldes de Montbui (Aquae Calidae), a Catalan town in Vallès Oriental built on 76 °C thermal springs, with Roman baths, a medieval royal vila, and Catalonia's leading 19th-century spa resort status.

Calepodius

Calepodius (Calepodio), priest and martyr of the Roman Church per the spurious Passio s. Callisti; feast 10 May. Namesake of the Catacomba di Calepodio on the Via Aurelia, Rome, burial place of Popes Callistus I and Julius I.

Calica

Calica (Calizas Industriales del Carmen) is a closed Maya archaeological zone near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, occupied from about 300 BC, known for Group P, the Temple of the Columns, and the Blue House Postclassic mural, inside a limestone quarry.

California Memorial Stadium

California Memorial Stadium, home of Cal Golden Bears football in Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley, opened November 1923 as a World War I memorial, was designed by John Galen Howard after Rome's Colosseum, and sits astride the Hayward Fault.

California Trail

The California Trail was the overland emigrant route network used from 1841 to 1869, carrying over 250,000 settlers and Forty-Niners from the Missouri River to California, peaking in 1852 and ending with the transcontinental railroad.

California's Great America

California's Great America is a Santa Clara, California amusement park opened by Marriott in 1976, now run by Six Flags after the Cedar Fair merger; its land was sold to Prologis in 2022, leaving the park's future beyond 2027 uncertain.

Caliphate City of Medina Azahara

Medina Azahara (Madinat al-Zahra, مدينة الزهراء) is a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site near Córdoba, Spain: a 10th-century Umayyad palace city of Abd al-Rahman III, destroyed in the 1009-1010 civil war, only 10 percent excavated, inscribed in 2018.

Callanish Stones

Callanish Stones (Calanais), Neolithic standing-stone complex on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Circle of 13 monoliths with 4.8 m central stone, 83 m avenue, erected 2900-2600 BC from Lewisian gneiss; chambered cairn, lunar standstill alignments, HES/UNT visitor centre.

Callis

Callis (plural calles), Latin for a cattle-made beaten track, source of Spanish calle; also an ancient road or coastal station at Sidi Nuah, Libya (Pleiades 373766, Barrington Atlas 38 C1).

Callow Hill Roman villa (United Kingdom)

Callow Hill Roman villa, a scheduled Romano-British corridor house villa near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, in a 138 by 216 m ditched enclosure beside Grim's Dyke, occupied from the late first to the fourth century AD.

Călugăreni

Călugăreni (Mikháza), village in Eremitu commune, Mureș County, Romania, on the Niraj river; site of a 2nd–3rd century Roman auxiliary fort on the eastern limes of Dacia, garrisoned by cohors I Augusta Ituraeorum, with a 5 ha vicus, thermae, and an archaeological park opened in 2015. Distinct from villages of the same name in Giurgiu, Gorj, Constanța, and Prahova counties.

Cambete

Cambete (Cambes, Cambate), Roman road station at modern Kembs, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, 12 miles north of Augusta Raurica; Rhine bridge, praetorium, Late Antique necropolis, named in Antonine Itinerary and Peutinger map.

Cambodian Memorial Sites: From centres of repression to places of peace and reflection

Cambodian Memorial Sites (UNESCO World Heritage, inscribed 11 July 2025, dossier 1748): the former M-13 prison, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21), and Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, documenting Khmer Rouge repression, 1971-1979.

Camino (site)

Camino (Pleiades 138261) is an ancient villa site in Gaul, cited as BAtlas 14 G4 Camino, identified tentatively with Camy, commune of Luzech (Lot, France), dated AD 300-640, distinct from Camino road or pilgrimage namesakes.

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Camino de la Plata, Royal Inland Road), a 2,600 km Spanish colonial trade route from Mexico City to New Mexico carrying silver and mercury; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010 and US National Historic Trail since 2000.

Camp David

Camp David (Naval Support Facility Thurmont) is the U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, built 1938, named Shangri-La by Roosevelt, renamed by Eisenhower in 1953, site of the 1978 Camp David Accords.

Camp-Ferrus

Camp-Ferrus (fanum de Camp-Ferrus) is a Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Loubers, Tarn, France, excavated 1968-1975 by abbé Marius Bessou: a 70 x 42 m walled enclosure with three fanum temples, a cloister-like gallery, and about 750 4th-century coins.

Camphill

Camphill (Camp Hill) is a large eroded earthwork enclosure on Queen's Park hill, Glasgow, possibly Iron Age; excavated in 1867 and 1951, interpreted as a clay castle or Norman ringwork.

Camping Olympia Zoo

Camping Olympia Zoo (Camping Olympia Tierpark, Parco animali del Camping Olympia) is a free 1,000 m² mini zoo behind the Klettenhammer family's campsite at Toblach, South Tyrol, keeping over 60 animals including meerkats, ponies, and Lady Amherst's pheasants; distinct from the International Camping Olympia at Cortina d'Ampezzo.