Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Can Llauder Roman Villa

Torre Llauder (Vil·la romana de Torre Llauder), Roman villa in Mataró, Catalonia, in the territory of Iluro; built under Augustus, with mosaics, baths and peristyles, peaking in the 3rd century AD and discovered in 1961.

Can Modolell

Can Modolell (Jaciment de Can Modolell) is a Roman rural sanctuary site in Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona, near ancient Iluro, known for Mithraic inscriptions including Kautes dedications and a debated supposed mithraeum, later a Sant Joan hermitage.

Can Sentromà (villa)

Can Sentromà (villa), Vil·la romana de Can Sentromà, a Roman agricultural villa under the masia of Can Sentromà in Tiana, Maresme, Barcelona; founded late 1st century BC, wine-producing, discovered 1934, BCIN-protected.

Canada's Wonderland

Canada's Wonderland is a 300-acre amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, opened May 23, 1981, with 200-plus attractions, 17-18 coasters including Leviathan and Yukon Striker, Splash Works water park, and ownership under Six Flags since the Cedar Fair merger.

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984, criteria vii-viii) in Alberta and British Columbia, combining Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks with Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, 2,360,000 ha including the Burgess Shale fossil site.

Canaima National Park

Canaima National Park (Parque Nacional Canaima) is a 3-million-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bolívar state, Venezuela, created in 1962, known for tepuis, Angel Falls, Pemón communities, and threats from illegal gold mining, tourism, and fire.

Canal of Xerxes

Canal of Xerxes: ship canal cut 483–480 BC across the Mount Athos isthmus in northern Greece, about 2 km long, letting the Persian fleet avoid Cape Athos; confirmed by 1991–2001 geophysical survey.

Candabia

Candabia (in candabia) was a Roman road station on the Via Egnatia in Illyria, near Qukës, Albania, attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana and Barrington Atlas 49 C2, occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 640.

Candalicae

Candalicae was a road station in Roman Noricum, in present-day Carinthia, Austria, listed in the Antonine Itinerary about 20 miles northwest of Virunum and linked with the region's iron mines.

Candymonium

Candymonium is a Bolliger & Mabillard hyper roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, opened July 3, 2020. Its 210-foot hill, 76 mph speed, and 4,636-foot track make it the park's tallest, fastest, and longest coaster.

Canniaco

Canniaco, ancient name of a Gallo-Roman villa identified (uncertainly) with Caniac-de-Causse, Lot, France; attested AD 300-640 in the Vita Sancti Desiderii; Barrington Atlas 14 G4; distinct from medieval charters' Canniaco elsewhere.

Canol Heritage Trail

Canol Heritage Trail: 371 km backcountry route in the NWT Mackenzie Mountains, following the abandoned WWII Canol Road and pipeline from Norman Wells toward the Yukon border; set to become Doi T'oh Territorial Park.

Canopus at Hadrian's Villa

Canopus at Hadrian's Villa (Canopo, Villa Adriana): Egyptianizing canal-pool and Serapeum grotto at Tivoli, completed 134–138 AD, a summer banqueting complex with Parian, Pentelic, and Dokymaean marble statuary.

Canopy in Bariloche

Canopy in Bariloche: zip-line adventure tourism at Cerro López near Colonia Suiza, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. 1,500 m circuit over 10 platforms in a 250-year-old coihue forest; opened December 2004, third in Argentina; no experience required.

Canteduc Roman Quarry

Canteduc Roman Quarry, a limestone quarry cut into the Rocher de Canteduc hill at Nîmes (ancient Nemausus), Gallia Narbonensis; it supplied stone for the Augustan city wall, amphitheater foundations, and Maison Carrée.

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church: a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kent, England, inscribed 1988 (criteria i, ii, vi; 18.58 ha), tracing Augustine's 597 mission, Becket's 1170 murder, and England's oldest church.

Cantilia

Cantilia, a Roman road station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana, on the Augustonemetum (Clermont-Ferrand) to Limonum (Poitiers) road; identified with Chantelle-la-Vielle, Allier, France; attested 30 BC to AD 640.

Cantobennum, Mon.

Cantobennum, Mon. (Cantobennicus mons) is the ancient Latin name of the Puy de Chanturgue near Clermont-Ferrand, France, a Late Antique monastery site recorded by Gregory of Tours and catalogued in the Barrington Atlas and Pleiades.

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Tsegi) is an 84,000-acre NPS unit entirely on Navajo Nation trust land near Chinle, Arizona, jointly managed with the Navajo Nation, inhabited nearly 5,000 years, established by the 1931 act, with canyon-floor access requiring authorized Navajo guides.

Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands National Park, southeast Utah, USA: 337,598-acre park established 1964, split by the Green and Colorado rivers into Island in the Sky, The Needles, and The Maze districts, with no roads linking them.

Cap Blanc

Aquarium Cap Blanc (Sa Cova de ses Llagostes), a small public aquarium in a natural sea cave at Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza; former lobster nursery converted in 1989, showing ~200 local Mediterranean animals and recovering sea turtles.

Capalbiaccio Tricosto

Capalbiaccio Tricosto (Castello di Tricosto) is a ruined fortified hilltop settlement in southern Tuscany, 6 km from Cosa, with an Etruscan phase of almost 4 hectares and a medieval castle destroyed by Sienese forces in 1417.

Cape Disappointment State Park

Cape Disappointment State Park, also called Fort Canby, is a 2,023-acre Washington state park at Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula, with two lighthouses, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Fort Canby ruins, and one of the state's largest campgrounds.

Cape Henlopen State Park

Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Delaware state park at Lewes where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, built on the former Fort Miles WWII coastal defense site, with six miles of shoreline, 19.3 miles of trails, and seasonal closures at The Point for nesting piping plovers.