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Costero del Sur Biosphere Reserve
Costero del Sur Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Parque Costero del Sur), a UNESCO MAB reserve nominated 1984 on the southern Río de la Plata coast, Buenos Aires, Argentina, protecting tala forests, pampa grasslands, and wetlands with over 200 bird species and vulnerable marsh deer.
Costeşti
Costeşti (Cetățuie) is the oldest Dacian fortress of the Orăștie Mountains, Hunedoara County, Romania, a royal residence possibly of Burebista, destroyed in 102 and 106 AD, part of the 1999 UNESCO serial site.
Costești-Blidaru
Costești-Blidaru, a Dacian hilltop fortress in Romania's Orăștie Mountains (705 m), one of six UNESCO-listed Dacian fortresses (1999), built in murus dacicus with 17 isolated towers, guarding the road to Sarmizegetusa Regia.
COTALAND
COTALAND is a theme park at the Circuit of The Americas motorsports facility in Austin, Texas, opened September 26, 2026, with more than 30 rides and attractions.
Country Club Plaza
Country Club Plaza: Kansas City's 15-block Spanish-inspired open-air shopping district, announced by J.C. Nichols in 1922 as America's first automobile-oriented shopping center, now undergoing a $1.5 billion redevelopment under new 2024 ownership.
Country Farm Tokyo German Village
Country Farm Tokyo German Village (東京ドイツ村) is a 91-hectare drive-through theme park in Sodegaura, Chiba, opened 2001, styled on German countryside, known for flower fields and a major Kanto winter illumination.
Country parks in England
Country parks in England are countryside areas at the edge of urban areas, provided by local authorities under the Countryside Act 1968 for public enjoyment.
Country parks in Northern Ireland
Country parks in Northern Ireland are recreation-led countryside sites run by district councils or the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, informally named because the region has no legal country park designation.
Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark
Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark (Montañas do Courel), Galicia, Spain; designated 11 April 2019; 57,800 ha across Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga, and Ribas de Sil; Variscan Courel syncline, Roman gold mines, slate heritage, 67 geosites.
Court House (near Taunton)
Court House (near Taunton) was an 18th-century country house at West Monkton, Somerset, seat of Matthew Brickdale until its demolition circa 1815; distinct from the Grade I Court House at East Quantoxhead.
Coux
Coux is a Gallo-Roman villa site at Auzances, Creuse, France, occupied 1st–3rd century AD, with hypocaust-heated baths and a courtyard domus, excavated from 1971 by school pupils under Marc Parrotin and inscribed as a monument historique in 1991.
Coveliacae
Coveliacae (Coveliacas), a Roman road station in Raetia on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Abodiacum and Tarteno, identified with the Moosberg hill near Murnau, a 3rd-century fortified settlement abandoned around 400-430.
COVID-19 pandemic memorials
COVID-19 pandemic memorials are installations, walls, and commemorations honoring people who died in the pandemic, most prominently London's National Covid Memorial Wall, begun by bereaved families in 2021.
Cowboy Town
Cowboy Town: Western-themed entertainment area at A'Famosa Resort, Alor Gajah, Malacca, Malaysia, opened 2002 and renamed Old West; also the nickname of Siniawan bazaar in Sarawak and Sabandar Cowboy Town in Sabah.
Cowley Roundabout Roman Settlement
Cowley Roundabout Roman Settlement: Romano-British roadside settlement in Cowley parish, Gloucestershire, on Ermin Street between Glevum and Corinium; 2nd-4th century CE, with a possible mutatio, excavated in the 1990s and again during the A417 Missing Link scheme.
Cozzo Presepe
Cozzo Presepe: archaeological site at Montescaglioso, Basilicata, near Metaponto; an Iron Age indigenous village replaced around 600 BC by a Greek phrourion fortifying Metaponto's territory, abandoned by the mid-3rd century BC.
Cramond
Cramond is a Roman fort and civil settlement at the mouth of the River Almond in Edinburgh, Scotland, built around AD 140 to guard the Antonine Wall's eastern flank.
Crane Yokocho
Crane Yokocho (クレーン横丁) is AEON Fantasy's Japanese crane game specialty store chain, first opened in Dotonbori, Osaka on July 19, 2024, with 130+ cashless machines in a Showa-retro interior and nine stores nationwide.
Crape myrtle garden
Crape myrtle garden (紫薇园), a themed garden for Lagerstroemia trees, notably the 2006 1-hectare garden at China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, with 249 plants of 20+ cultivars blooming as 'Hundred-Day Red' from June to September.
Crater Lake
Crater Lake, Oregon: a 594 m deep caldera lake filling collapsed Mount Mazama (formed ~7,700 years ago), deepest lake in the United States, ninth deepest on Earth, centerpiece of Crater Lake National Park (1902).
Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake National Park, established May 22, 1902 in southwest Oregon, protects Crater Lake, the deepest US lake (592 m), formed in the Mount Mazama caldera about 7,700 years ago; Oregon's only national park.
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is the world's only public diamond search site on its original volcanic source, a 37-acre field on the Prairie Creek lamproite pipe with a finders-keepers policy and over 37,000 diamonds found since 1972.
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho: a 753,000-acre NPS-BLM co-managed volcanic landscape along the 52-mile Great Rift, established 1924, expanded 2000, preserve designated 2002, with Holocene lava flows, lava tubes, and low volcanic threat.
Crawford
Crawford is the name of several historic and geographic subjects, including a Roman fort in Lanarkshire, a hillfort in Dorset, a Texas town, and a Wisconsin fort.
Crawley Edge Boatshed
Crawley Edge Boatshed, also called the Blue Boat House or Blue Boathouse, is a blue private boatshed on the Swan River at Crawley, Perth, owned by the Nattrass family since 1944 and famous as an Instagram and wedding-photography landmark.
Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse Memorial, a mountain carving of the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse on Thunderhead Mountain in South Dakota's Black Hills, begun 1948 by Korczak Ziolkowski after Chief Henry Standing Bear's invitation, still unfinished, privately funded, and contested among Lakota communities.
Creaca
Creaca (Cariera Creaca Ţiclar, RAN 140681.05) is a Roman-period quartz-dacite quarry in Sălaj County, Romania, near Porolissum; Pleiades place 207051; PIXE/PCA mortar study found it likely unused for quicklime.
Credenhill Camp (United Kingdom)
Credenhill Camp, also called Credenhill Park Wood hillfort, is a large Iron Age multivallate (bivallate) hillfort in Herefordshire, England, scheduled in 1934; occupied c. 390 BC to AD 75 and excavated by S. C. Stanford in 1963.
Crespi d'Adda
Crespi d'Adda is a preserved company town in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, Italy, built by the Crespi family of cotton manufacturers from the late 1870s.
Cretaquarium
Cretaquarium (Thalassocosmos), the public aquarium of Crete at Gournes near Heraklion, opened December 2005 and run by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; about 62 Mediterranean tanks, 1.8 million litres, research and sea-turtle care.