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Château de Montségur
Château de Montségur: ruined castle at 1,207 m on the pog in Ariège, France; Cathar castrum rebuilt 1204, seat of the Cathar Church from 1232, besieged 1243-1244, with about 225 Cathars burned on 16 March 1244; present ruins are a later royal fortress.
Château-Bas (Roman Temple)
The Château-Bas Roman temple, also called Temple de la Maison-Basse, is a partly standing Corinthian temple of about 30 to 20 BC at Vernègues in Provence, France.
Châteaux of the Loire Valley
Châteaux of the Loire Valley: French castles along the Loire river, royal residences in the 15th-16th centuries and cradle of the French Renaissance; UNESCO-listed since 2000, including Chambord, Chenonceau, Amboise, Blois, and Azay-le-Rideau.
Châtelard de Lardiers
Châtelard de Lardiers is an archaeological site in Lardiers, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France: a pre-Roman oppidum that became a major Gallo-Roman pilgrimage sanctuary known for tens of thousands of votive lamps.
Chatelherault Country Park
Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire: 500-acre park around William Adam's 1732 hunting lodge for the 5th Duke of Hamilton, opened 1987, with Cadzow Oaks, Avon Gorge, and Cadzow Castle.
Chaussée Jules César
Chaussée Jules César, Roman road from Lutetia (Paris) to Rotomagus (Rouen) via Pontoise across the Vexin français, built from the first quarter of the 1st century AD, used to the 3rd century, about 190 km to the Channel at Harfleur; name misattributed to Caesar.
Chausuyama Zoo
Chausuyama Zoo (茶臼山動物園) is a municipal zoo in Nagano City, Japan, opened August 8, 1983 on a former landslide hillside; about 73 species on 15 ha, known for red pandas, a dinosaur park, and its solitary elephant Fuko.
Chautaion/Chettaia
Chautaion/Chettaia (Χετταία), ancient Egyptian coastal town at Marsa Gargub, 70 km west of Marsa Matruh; small-ship anchorage with springs, 330 BC–AD 300, now threatened by a 2021 port.
Chavin (Archaeological Site)
Chavín de Huántar, a first-millennium BCE ceremonial and pilgrimage center at 3,180 m in Ancash, Peru, type-site of the Chavín culture, with sunken plazas, underground galleries, the Lanzón monolith, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 1985.
Chavy Land
Chavy Land (چاڤی لاند), also Chavi Land, is a large amusement and recreation complex on Mount Goizha in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, opened 2013 at a cost of about $150 million, with a cable car, water park, and wax museum; closed by tax authorities in 2025.
Cheaha State Park
Cheaha State Park, established 1933, is Alabama's oldest continuously operating state park, a 2,799-acre park on Cheaha Mountain, the state's highest point at 2,407 feet, with CCC-era stone structures and Cheaha Lake.
Chedworth
Chedworth Roman Villa, a large 4th-century Roman villa in a Cotswold valley, Gloucestershire; discovered 1864, National Trust since 1924; its mid-5th-century mosaic shows Romanized life continued after AD 410.
Chefline World
Chefline World (셰프라인월드) is a kitchenware-themed park and museum in Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, South Korea, built by the Chefline cookware brand; it features giant utensil sculptures, an oreum deck, an animal farm, and pan-making workshops.
Chega Sofla
Chega Sofla (تل چگاسفلی) is a prehistoric settlement and cemetery in Khuzestan, Iran, occupied in the fifth millennium BCE and known for the oldest brick-built tombs documented.
Chelmos Castle
Chelmos Castle (Kastro Chelmou, Frourio Athinaion) is a ruined 13th-century medieval castle in Arcadia, Peloponnese, on Agios Konstantinos hill near Skortsinos, built inside the ancient Spartan fortress Athenaion and last recorded in 1320.
Chelmos Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark
Chelmos Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark, in the northern Peloponnese, Greece (Kalavryta center), a 647 km² geopark since 2015 with 40+ geosites, Mount Chelmos, Vouraikos Gorge, Cave of the Lakes, and Styx waters.
Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden, London's oldest botanic garden (founded 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries), is a four-acre walled garden at 66 Royal Hospital Road holding around 4,000 medicinal, edible and useful plants, run as a charity since 1983.
Chelyuskinites Park
Chelyuskinites Park (Парк Чалюскінцаў) is a 78-hectare culture-and-recreation park in Minsk, Belarus, created 1928–1932 on the Komarovsky pine forest and named in 1934 after the Chelyuskin steamship expedition; it has an amusement park, children's railway, and metro station of the same name.
Chengdu Polar Ocean Park
Chengdu Polar Ocean Park (成都海昌极地海洋公园), renamed Haihe'an Chengdu Polar Ocean Park in 2024, is a 4A polar and marine theme park in Tianfu New Area, Chengdu, opened in 2010, sold to HHAn group in 2021, with belugas, polar bears, and penguins.
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (成都大熊猫繁育研究基地), or Panda Base, founded 1987 in Chengdu, Sichuan; world's largest ex situ giant panda facility with 270+ pandas, international breeding programs, and Panda Valley reintroduction center.
Chennakeshava Temple, Somanathapura
The Chennakeshava Temple at Somanathapura, also called the Keshava Temple, is a 13th-century Hoysala Hindu temple in Karnataka, India, consecrated in 1268 and named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023.
Cheollipo Arboretum
Cheollipo Arboretum (천리포수목원) is Korea's first private arboretum, on the Taean peninsula, founded by Carl Ferris Miller (Min Byung-gal); 589,429 square meters, 16,895 plant taxa, records named National Registered Cultural Heritage in 2026.
Cheonggye Folk Village
Cheonggye Folk Village (청계민속촌) was a small folk-culture theme park at 177 Cheonggye-ro, Cheonggye-dong, Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, near Cheonggyesan and Cheonggyesa temple; Tripadvisor lists it as closed, distinct from Yongin's Korean Folk Village.
Cheongsong UNESCO Global Geopark
Cheongsong UNESCO Global Geopark (청송 유네스코 세계지질공원), designated 2017 in North Gyeongsang, South Korea; 845.71 km², 24 geosites, spherulitic rhyolite Flower Stone, Green Cards in 2022 and 2025.
Cherkassy National University Botanical Garden
Botanical garden of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine (Ботанічний сад ЧНУ); founded 1936 as an agrobiostation, the only botanical garden in Cherkasy Oblast, with 172 woody and about 300 herbaceous taxa on 4.57 ha.
Chernomorskiy Biosphere Reserve
Chernomorskiy (Black Sea) Biosphere Reserve, Chornomorskyi biosfernyi zapovidnyk, is a Ukrainian UNESCO MAB site on the northern Black Sea coast near Kherson, founded in 1927, protecting wetlands, steppe, and over 20 islands on a major bird migration route.
Cherokee National Forest
Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee's only national forest and largest public land tract (over 660,000 acres), established 1920, spanning the Southern Appalachians from Bristol to Chattanooga with 700+ miles of trails.
Cherré
Cherré, at Aubigné-Racan (Sarthe), France, is a Gallo-Roman monumental complex (1st–4th century AD) of the Aulerci Cenomani, with theater, temples, baths, market-forum, and 4.5 km aqueduct, but no known housing.
Cherry Springs State Park
Cherry Springs State Park, an 82-acre park on PA 44 in Potter County, Pennsylvania, is a Gold Level International Dark Sky Park (2008) and DCNR's first Dark Sky Park (2000), famed for 360-degree Bortle-dark skies, two annual star parties, and the Woodsmen Show.
Chessington World of Adventures
Chessington World of Adventures, a Surrey/Greater London theme park, zoo and SEA LIFE resort near London. Zoo since 1931, theme park since 1987, Merlin-owned, with World of Jumanji, PAW Patrol (2026) and Minecraft World (2027).