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Chilkoot Trail
Chilkoot Trail: 33-mile (53 km) historic route from Dyea, Alaska over Chilkoot Pass to Lake Bennett, British Columbia; a Tlingit trade route and the main 'poor man's route' to the Klondike during the 1896-99 gold rush, now a recreation trail.
Chimelong International Ocean Tourist Resort (长隆国际海洋度假区)
Chimelong International Ocean Tourist Resort (长隆国际海洋度假区), or Chimelong Hengqin Resort, is an ocean-themed resort on Hengqin Island, Zhuhai, China. Its Ocean Kingdom park opened in 2014, set 7 world records, and drew about 12.5 million visitors in 2023; the second phase added the giant indoor Spaceship Park.
Chimelong Ocean Kingdom
Chimelong Ocean Kingdom (长隆海洋王国) is a marine animal theme park and aquarium on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, China, opened in 2014; its whale shark aquarium holds Guinness records.
Chimelong Paradise
Chimelong Paradise (长隆欢乐世界) is a theme park in Panyu district, Guangzhou, China, opened in 2006 at the heart of the Chimelong resort; known for its dive coaster, motorbike launch coaster, ten-inversion coaster, and ¥250 adult admission.
Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort
Chimelong Qingyuan Forest Resort (清远长隆度假区), Chimelong Group's third resort after Guangzhou and Hengqin, is a forest and wildlife resort in Qingyuan, Guangdong, in trial operation since January 25, 2025, with Forest Kingdom, a 27 km self-drive safari, hot spring park, and Giraffe Castle Hotel.
Chimelong Safari Park
Chimelong Safari Park (长隆野生动物世界), formerly Xiangjiang Safari Park, is a large privately owned wildlife park in Guangzhou, China, opened in 1997 and known for its giant pandas and koalas.
Chimelong Water Park
Chimelong Water Park (长隆水上乐园) is a water park in Guangzhou, China, opened in 2007 within the Chimelong Tourist Resort and reported as the world's most visited since 2013.
China Danxia
China Danxia (中国丹霞) is a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2010, six red-bed landform areas (Chishui, Taining, Langshan, Danxiashan, Longhushan, Jianglangshan) across southern China showing young-to-old Danxia erosion stages.
China Dinosaur Park
China Dinosaur Park (中华恐龙园), also called the Oriental Jurassic Park, is a dinosaur-themed amusement park in Xinbei District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, opened September 20, 2000 around the China Dinosaur Museum, a national 5A attraction with over 50 million cumulative visitors.
Chinese Garden (Russia)
Chinese gardens in Russia: the Friendship Garden in Saint Petersburg (2003, Shanghai's gift, copy of Yu Yuan) and Huamin Park in Moscow (2019, largest Chinese landscape park outside China), plus historic chinoiserie gardens.
Chinese Herbal Garden
A Chinese herbal garden (中草药园) is a garden growing Chinese medicinal plants for conservation, education, and research, ranging from university nurseries to small school plots.
Chinkultic
Chinkultic, a Maya archaeological zone in La Trinitaria, Chiapas, Mexico, 47 km east of Comitán. Occupied about 50 BC to 1200 AD, with Acropolis, sunken plaza, large ballcourt, and Mesoamerica's largest cut-stone blocks.
Chiragan Roman villa
Chiragan Roman villa, Gallo-Roman villa at Martres-Tolosane, Haute-Garonne, France, on the Garonne near Toulouse; occupied 1st century BCE to 5th century CE, over 13 hectares, famed for the largest marble sculpture assemblage from a villa in Gaul.
Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar” (site)
Chiribiquete National Park, "The Maloca of the Jaguar" (Parque Nacional Natural Serranía de Chiribiquete), is Colombia's largest protected area, a 2018 UNESCO mixed World Heritage Site with 75,000 rock paintings, tepuis, and uncontacted indigenous peoples.
Chislehurst Caves
Chislehurst Caves: man-made chalk and flint mines in Chislehurst, Bromley, Greater London, with about 22 miles of tunnels; Blitz air-raid shelter for up to 15,000, later a 1960s music venue and guided-tour attraction.
Chitral Bashkar Garmchashm Biosphere Reserve
Chitral Bashkar Garmchashm Biosphere Reserve, also written Garam Chashma, is a 2023 UNESCO MAB site in Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: 727,310 ha of Hindu Kush glaciers, markhor and snow leopard habitat, and Kalash and Khow communities.
Chitwan National Park
Chitwan National Park (चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज), established 1973 in Nepal's Terai lowlands, is the country's first national park and a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage Site protecting one-horned rhinos and Bengal tigers across 932 km² plus a 750 km² buffer zone.
Chlum
Chlum: name of Czech places in archaeological records, notably a prehistoric hilltop settlement near Bílavsko (excavated 2018) and a medieval gold-panning landscape at Chlum u Blatná on the Závišinský potok.
Chmielów Piaskowy
Chmielów Piaskowy is a Przeworsk culture cremation cemetery of the Roman Iron Age at Chmielów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland: excavated 1938–1939 by Rudolf Jamka, over 70 urn graves, used from about the mid-1st to the late 3rd century AD, published by Godłowski and Wichman in 1998.
Chmyreva Mogila
Chmyreva Mogila (Чмирева могила) is a 4th-century BC Scythian aristocratic kurgan near Velyka Bilozerka, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, with a ten-horse burial, silver-vessel hoard lost in WWII, and rare griffin pole-tops.
Choburak-I
Choburak-I (Чобурак-I), a fully excavated 12-kurgan Bulan-Koby Culture cemetery of the Rouran period in the Northern Altai, Russia; Bayesian AMS radiocarbon dating places its use around 310–400 cal CE.
Chocó Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve
Chocó Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB reserve in Pichincha Province, Ecuador, declared 25 July 2018 as the country's seventh; 286,805 ha, 360–4,480 m, Chocó–Darién and Northern Andean forests, ~2,500 endemic plants, Mindo cloud forest, 2023 anti-mining referendum.
Chocolate Factory
Chocolate Factory: an industrial facility making chocolate products, also the name of factory-tour attractions such as Hershey's Chocolate World and Cadbury World, a Jiaxing theme park, and Willy Wonka's fictional factory.
Chodang Folk Village
Chodang Folk Village (초당두부마을, Chodang Dubu Village) is a historic tofu village south of Gyeongpo Beach in Gangneung, Korea, famed for sundubu made with East Sea deep-sea water bittern and linked to scholar Heo Yeop, father of Heo Gyun and Heo Nanseolheon.
Cholachgud Mound
Cholachgud Mound: ancient partly buried temple remains at Cholachgud (Cholachagudd), Badami taluka, Bagalkot district, Karnataka, beside the Banashankari temple; ASI-protected Chalukya-era monuments near Badami.
Chongoni Rock-Art Area
Chongoni Rock-Art Area (Malawi, UNESCO 2006, criteria iii and vi): 127 painted sites over 126.4 km2 of granite hills near Dedza, the richest rock-art concentration in Central Africa, with BaTwa red and Chewa white-clay traditions still used in Nyau and chinamwali rituals.
Chongqing Three Gorges Zoo
Chongqing Three Gorges Zoo (重庆三峡动物园) is a zoo under preparation in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, in the Tianshengcheng tourism zone: 400,000 square meters, nine exhibition zones, over 150 species and 5,000 animals, 89 percent complete in December 2025, succeeding Wanzhou's closed Xishan Zoo.
Chongqing Zoo
Chongqing Zoo (重庆动物园), in Yangjiaping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, opened in 1955 as West District Park and renamed in 1960; a 43.4-hectare municipal zoo with 240+ species, known for giant panda, South China tiger, and red panda breeding.
Chonnam National University Arboretum
Chonnam National University Arboretum, a university arboretum in Gwangju, South Korea, run by the Department of Forestry for teaching and research; site of pest surveys (fall webworm, spotted lanternfly) and the first Korean report of Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae canker on evergreen oak.
Choquequirao
Choquequirao, also written Choqek'iraw, is a major Inca archaeological site on a ridge above the Apurímac river in Peru's Cusco region, called the sacred sister of Machu Picchu.