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Chamunda Tila
Chamunda Tila is an archaeological mound in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, named for the Chamunda Mata temple at the site. A centrally protected monument, it is now encroached upon and partly destroyed.
Chanctonbury Ring
Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hillfort, probably built around the 7th century BC, on the South Downs in West Sussex, England, topped by beech trees planted in 1760 and later reused as a Roman temple precinct.
Chandok Mound
Chandok Mound, or Chandrani-ka-Mandir, is an ASI centrally protected temple-ruins site at Aurangabad Chandok village, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, listed as N-UP-A122 in the Agra Circle.
Chandor Mound
Chandor Mound: excavated site at Chandor, Goa (ancient Chandrapura), former Bhoja and Kadamba capital on the Kushavati River, with an early brick temple, five occupation phases, and ASI protection.
Changbaishan Biosphere Reserve
Changbaishan Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Jilin Province, China, designated 1979; 196,465 ha of volcanic Changbai landscapes with Heavenly Lake, alpine tundra, and 2,639 plant species.
Changchun Zhongtai Ocean World
Changchun Zhongtai Ocean World (长春中泰海洋世界), an ocean-themed aquarium and MALL at 1399 Qinghua Road, Chaoyang District, Changchun; 50,000 m², eight themed venues, sea lion and mermaid shows, adult tickets 160 yuan.
Changdeokgung (창덕궁)
Changdeokgung (창덕궁, 昌德宮), the East Palace of Seoul, is a Joseon royal palace built in 1405 as Gyeongbokgung's secondary palace, rebuilt first after the 1592 Imjin War, and the dynasty's de facto main palace for about 270 years; UNESCO World Heritage since 1997.
Changgyeonggung (창경궁)
Changgyeonggung (창경궁), a Joseon royal palace in Seoul built by King Seongjong in 1483 for three dowager queens; formed the East Palace with Changdeokgung, was demoted to Changgyeongwon park under Japanese rule, and restored from 1983.
Changiyeh
Changiyeh (چنگیه), also Changiyeh-ye Qajar, is a Kurdish village in Ilam Province, Iran, and an ancient temple site cited as BAtlas 92 B3, near Kangavar (Concobar), with a Late Antique (AD 300-640) location.
Changshan UNESCO Global Geopark
Changshan UNESCO Global Geopark (常山), in Quzhou, Zhejiang, China, designated 2026; 1,043.10 km2, 300,000 residents; home of China's first Golden Spike GSSP at Huangnitang, Middle Ordovician standard.
Chani Kokkonas
Chani Kokkonas (Chani tis Kokkonas) is an archaeological site in the Vale of Tempe, Thessaly, Greece, with a Hellenistic roadside sanctuary of Cybele and a Byzantine inn, church, and cemetery excavated in 2010-2011.
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex: prehistoric site (250-200 BC) in Peru's Casma Valley whose Thirteen Towers and two observation points formed a solar calendar marking every date to 1-2 days; UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.
Channel Islands National Park
Channel Islands National Park protects five of the eight California Channel Islands, established March 5, 1980 from the 1938 national monument, with waters extending one nautical mile offshore, 145 endemic species, and the island fox recovery.
Chaora Mound
Chaora Mound: ASI centrally protected group of three high conical brick mounds, ruins of stupas, at Chaora village, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh; notified 1920, Sarnath Circle, recorded by Carlyle.
Chapel of Santa Catarina
Chapel of Santa Catarina (Capela de Santa Catarina) names several Portuguese chapels dedicated to Saint Catherine, notably Funchal's 1425 chapel, the 1598 fort chapel at Figueira da Foz, Vila do Conde's medieval chapel, Alenquer's 1623 complex, and Porto's Capela das Almas.
Chapel of Wadjmose
The Chapel of Wadjmose is an ancient Egyptian mortuary chapel in the Theban Necropolis at Thebes, built for offerings to Prince Wadjmose, son of Thutmose I.
Chapelle Sainte-Agathe
Chapelle Sainte-Agathe is the shared dedication of several French and Belgian chapels, notably the 1840-classed chapel at Langon built on Roman bath masonry and the 12th-century castle chapel at Saint-Maime with 14th-century apostle frescoes.
Chapultepec
Chapultepec (Bosque de Chapultepec) is a hill, forest, and castle in western Mexico City, home to the National Museum of History; its name means "on the grasshopper hill."
Char Bakr
Char Bakr (Chor-Bakr, Čār Bakr, "four Bakrs") is a Juybari shaikh family necropolis near Sumitan, 5 km west of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, with a 1560s mosque-madrasa-khanaka ensemble built under Abd-Allah Khan II, khazira burial courtyards, and UNESCO Tentative List status since 2008.
Charles A. Birnbaum
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, American landscape preservationist; founder, president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (1998); former NPS Historic Landscape Initiative coordinator; author of Preservation Brief 36.
Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve
Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de la biosphère de Charlevoix), a Québec region designated by UNESCO in 1988; 1,290,000 ha with core, buffer, and transition zones; managed by a non-profit; Biosphere Certified Destination since 2025.
Charminar
Charminar is Hyderabad's 1591 (1000 AH) four-minaret ceremonial gateway built by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah to mark the second Islamic millennium and the founding of his new city, a 48.7-meter granite and lime-mortar monument managed by the ASI.
Charna Mound
Charna Mound, Charna village, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh: centrally protected ASI site of the ruins of two granite temples (N-UP-L318), 6 miles west of Kulpahar, protected in 1920, in the Chandella-era Mahoba monument cluster.
Chartwell
Chartwell, near Westerham, Kent, is Sir Winston Churchill's family home from 1922 to 1965, now a Grade I listed National Trust property with a Grade II garden, opened to the public in 1966.
Charyn Biosphere Reserve
The Charyn Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southeast Kazakhstan, designated in 2018, covering 239,731 hectares around the Charyn River canyon and its relict ash forest.
Chassenon Roman amphitheater
The Chassenon Roman amphitheater is a Gallo-Roman spectacle building at the ancient site of Cassinomagus in Chassenon, Charente, southwestern France, with an oval arena of 40 by 60 meters.
Chatam Sofer Memorial, Bratislava
The Chatam Sofer Memorial in Bratislava, Slovakia, is an underground Jewish burial compound preserving 23 graves from the old Jewish cemetery, including that of Rabbi Moshe Schreiber.
Chatby Necropolis
Chatby (Shatby) Necropolis, Alexandria's oldest known Hellenistic cemetery, used from ca. 320 BC by the first Greek settlers; excavated by Breccia 1904-1910, with Hypogeum A as the blueprint for later Alexandrian tombs.
Château de Chavaniac
Château de Chavaniac (Chavaniac-Lafayette), a 14th-century fortified manor in Haute-Loire, France; birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757), rebuilt 1701 after a fire, restored by John Moffat's American Memorial from 1917, now a departmental museum.
Château de Marly
The Château de Marly was a pleasure residence built for Louis XIV at Marly-le-Roi near Versailles between 1679 and 1686, and demolished in the early 19th century.