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Carlisle Castle
Carlisle Castle, Cumbria: medieval tower keep castle founded by William II in 1092 over the Roman fort of Luguvalium, England's most-besieged castle, later Border Regiment headquarters, now an English Heritage site.
Carlsbad Cavern
Carlsbad Cavern is a limestone cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, with over 30 miles of mapped passages and a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, southeastern New Mexico: 119+ sulfuric-acid-formed limestone caves in Permian Capitan Reef, Big Room (largest North American chamber, 8.2 acres), Lechuguilla Cave, Brazilian free-tailed bat flights, national park since 1930, World Heritage Site 1995.
Carnac stones
The Carnac stones (Steudadoù Karnag) are Neolithic megalithic monuments in Brittany, France: about 3,000 standing stones in alignments spanning nearly 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli, built c. 5000–2300 BCE and inscribed by UNESCO in 2025.
Carnarvon National Park
Carnarvon National Park, Central Queensland: sandstone gorges, Aboriginal rock art, 298,000 ha across sections including Carnarvon Gorge (1932) and Mount Moffatt (1979), managed by QPWS.
Carnivore house
猛兽馆 (carnivore house): a zoo building for large and medium predatory mammals, also the name of specific houses in Liaoyang, Wuhan, Taiyuan, and Jinan; Chinese codes require barriers resisting four times animal body weight and two-keeper lock procedures.
Carnoulès
Carnoulès is an abandoned argentiferous lead mine in Saint-Sébastien-d'Aigrefeuille, Gard, France, closed since 1962, known for arsenic-rich acid mine drainage and long-term microbiological research.
Carnuntum
Carnuntum, Roman legionary fortress and civilian city on the Danube between Petronell and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria; capital of Pannonia Superior, seat of Septimius Severus's proclamation (193) and the 308 Emperors' Conference.
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014 in Höxter, Germany: the only standing Carolingian westwork (873–885) with mythological wall paintings, plus remains of the imperial abbey and deserted medieval town.
Carousel
Каруселі (carousels): rotating amusement rides around a vertical axis, from Peter the Great's court spectacles to steam-powered park rides; governed by GOST speed, tilt, and clearance safety standards.
Carousel Yard Amusement Park
Carousel Yard Amusement Park (Russian: Парк аттракционов «Карусельный двор») is a small amusement park in the Alexander Nevsky Park in Bender Fortress, Bender, Transnistria, opened in October 2022 with five rides.
Carowinds
Carowinds is a 400-acre amusement and water park straddling the North Carolina–South Carolina line near Charlotte, opened March 31, 1973. Known for Fury 325, Carolina Harbor, and SCarowinds; now owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
Carpow
Carpow, Roman legionary fortress on the River Tay near Newburgh, Perthshire, Scotland; also a scheduled monument SM2275. Excavated 1961-79, a short Severan-era occupation c. AD 180-220, linked to Legio II Augusta.
Carranque
Carranque (Santa María de Abajo) is a late Roman villa and archaeological park in Toledo province, Spain, discovered in 1983, famed for 600 m² of mythological mosaics, a palatial building, and disputed owner Maternus.
Carrow Hill Roman fort
Carrow Hill Roman fort, Monmouthshire, Wales (NPRN 423337): a small pre-Flavian auxiliary fort near Caerwent, discovered as cropmarks in the 2018 drought; first auxiliary fort plan in the Vale of Gwent, with double ditches and annexe.
Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, also called Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cemetery, is a Neolithic complex of fifteen passage tomb cairns in the Bricklieve Mountains, County Sligo, Ireland, excavated in 1911, dating to c. 3500 BC, with evidence of dismemberment and cremation.
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery (Ceathrú Mór), County Sligo, Ireland: the country's largest and oldest passage tomb cemetery, centered on Listoghil (Carrowmore 51), with about 30 satellite dolmen-circle tombs dated 3775–2950 BC, on the UNESCO tentative list.
Carsium
Carsium (Hârșova, Romania) was a Roman and Roman-Byzantine fortress on the Danubian limes, built over a Getae settlement, given stone walls by Trajan in 103 AD, garrisoned by ala II Hispanorum, rebuilt by Justinian, and blown up after the Peace of Adrianople.
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres"
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres" (Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres"), a 1978-founded botanical garden and research institution in Turbaco, Bolívar, Colombia, conserving tropical dry forest flora across nine hectares with the Caribbean region's leading herbarium.
Carton Box Theme Park
Carton Box Theme Park (纸箱主题乐园) is a paper-themed park in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, opened in January 2026 as the first Southeast Asian Carton King park.
Carvium
Carvium: Roman castellum at the Rhine-Waal bifurcation near Herwen, Netherlands, guarding Drusus' dam (c. 12 BC); identified via the 1938 Marcus Mallius tombstone reading Carvio ad molem; UNESCO Lower Germanic Limes site.
Carzield
Carzield is the site of a Roman cavalry fort at Kirkton, in Nithsdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, established around AD 140 and generally abandoned by AD 158.
Cas(s)inomagus
Cassinomagus (Cussinomagus), Gallo-Roman agglomeration at Chassenon, Charente, France, on the via Agrippa in Lémovices territory; famed for 12,500 m² early-2nd-century Roman baths, the Montélu temple, sacred wood, and a 15-hectare archaeological park.
Casa dei Crescenzi
Casa dei Crescenzi, also Tor Crescenzia or Casa di Pilato, is an 11th-12th century medieval aristocratic house in Rome's Forum Boarium, built by Niccolò di Crescenzio with ancient spolia, now home to the Centro di Studi per la Storia dell'Architettura.
Casa della Biblioteca
Casa della Biblioteca (House of the Library, VI, 17, 41) is a Roman urban villa in Pompeii's Insula Occidentalis, named by Volker Michael Strocka; excavated from 1759, with Second Style frescoes and 2021-22 finds of pigment workshops and marble slabs.
Casa Rimoniana
Casa Rimoniana, earlier read Runoniana, is a minor coastal stop on the Tabula Peutingeriana in Tripolitania, 25 Roman miles from Tubactis between Leptis Magna and Macomades maiores, identified near Wadi Sasu.
Casal Bertone necropolis
The Casal Bertone necropolis is an Imperial-era Roman burial ground east of Rome along the via Praenestina, in use in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Casal Rotondo
Casal Rotondo is the largest circular mausoleum on the Via Appia Antica, at the sixth mile, a 35 m diameter late-1st-century-BC drum once clad in travertine, with a refuted Cotta attribution and a medieval farmhouse-turned-villa on top.
Casale dell’Infernaccio
Casale dell'Infernaccio is a locality in Magliana Vecchia, Rome, site of a Roman villa with baths found in 1976, with fish frescoes and a possible fishpond; also a Pleistocene conglomerate formation.
Casale di Giovio
Casale di Giovio, in Rome's Villa Doria Pamphilj on the via Aurelia Antica: a Roman imperial temple-tomb reused as a medieval tower and 17th-century residence, bought by the Doria Pamphilj in 1847, restored with 1 million euro PNRR funds.