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Dark ride
Dark ride (also ghost train): an indoor amusement ride carrying passengers in guided vehicles, boats, or suspended cars through lit themed scenes with animatronics and effects; originated in late 1800s US amusement parks, patented by Leon Cassidy in 1928.
Dark tourism
Dark tourism, also called thanatourism, is travel to sites of death, disaster, or atrocity such as concentration camps, genocide memorials, and disaster zones; terms coined in 1996 by Lennon and Foley and Seaton.
Dark-sky preserve
Dark-sky preserve: a protected area certified for natural night-sky darkness, chiefly via DarkSky International's International Dark Sky Places program (parks, reserves, sanctuaries, communities), founded 2001 with Flagstaff, Arizona as the first city.
Darre-ye Barre
Darre-ye Barre (Darra-ye Barra, "Valley of the lamb") is an archaeological site in Fars, Iran, 2.5 km from Naqsh-e Rostam, with rock-cut chambers and the tallest fire altar found in Fars, tentatively Sasanian.
Dartmoor
Dartmoor, Devon upland and national park designated 30 October 1951; 954 km2 granite moor with High Willhays (621 m), 8,500 ha blanket bog, and a Supreme Court-confirmed public right to wild camp under the 1985 Act.
Darvinskiy Biosphere Reserve
Darvinskiy Biosphere Reserve (Дарвинский заповедник), a Russian zapovednik established 15 July 1945 on the Rybinsk Reservoir to study reservoir effects; 112,630 ha, Europe's densest osprey and white-tailed eagle nesting, UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Dascusa
Dascusa, a Roman fort on the Euphrates in Cappadocia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary 50 Roman miles from Melitene; founded under Claudius, it was among the earliest garrisons of Rome's Euphrates frontier.
Daskalovo
Daskalovo (Даскалово) names several Bulgarian places: a Roman-period fort and settlement in the Barrington Atlas (Pleiades 481799), the Pernik quarter with a 2nd-4th century sanctuary of Asclepius Keilaidenos, and a village in the Kardzhali region's Eastern Rhodopes.
Data Darbar
Data Darbar (داتا دربار) is Lahore's Sufi shrine of Ali Hujwiri, Data Ganj Bakhsh, Pakistan's largest shrine, drawing 40,000-60,000 daily visitors and up to one million at its annual Urs.
Daulatabad Fort
Daulatabad Fort, originally Deogiri (Devagiri), is a medieval hill fortress 16 km from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, on a 200-m conical hill; Yadava capital, briefly Muhammad bin Tughlaq's Delhi Sultanate capital (1327–1334), later Ahmadnagar, Mughal, Maratha, and Hyderabad stronghold.
Daursky Biosphere Reserve
Daursky Biosphere Reserve (Даурский заповедник) is a cluster UNESCO biosphere reserve in southern Zabaikalsky Krai, Russia, established 1987, Ramsar-listed Torey Lakes, and part of the Landscapes of Dauria World Heritage site since 2017.
Dausara
Dausara (Dausar, Dawsar) is the pre-Islamic name of the Euphrates hill in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, later Qal'at Ja'bar; first attested from the seventh century, named in tradition after Dausar, servant of Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir, and also a Crambidae moth genus.
Daventry
Daventry, a market town in West Northamptonshire, England, recorded as Daintree in 1086; known for the Borough Hill Iron Age hillforts, Roman villa, BBC 5XX transmitting station, and Daventry Museum.
Davianum
Davianum (Mutatio Davianum), Roman road-changing station on the Valentia-Vapincum road in Gallia Narbonensis, 8 miles from Mons Seleucus; identified with Veynes, Hautes-Alpes, France.
David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, the Nairobi Nursery of Kenya's Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (founded 1977 by Daphne Sheldrick), rescues and hand-raises orphaned elephants and rhinos, then reintegrates them to Tsavo; over 300 orphans raised, dozens of wild calves born to ex-orphans.
Davis Mountains State Park
Davis Mountains State Park is a 2,708-acre Texas state park two miles west of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, established in 1933 and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden (大兴安岭寒温带植物园), a 1,906-hectare AAAA scenic area 10 km south of Jiagedaqi, Heilongjiang; described as China's only cold-temperate flora and fauna gene bank, planting Mongolian Scots pine and white birch.
Daying Dead Sea
Daying Dead Sea (中国死海, China Dead Sea) is a salt-lake water resort in Daying County, Suining, Sichuan, opened in 2003 on 150-million-year-old underground brine over 22% saline, distinct from Yuncheng Salt Lake.
Dazaifu Amusement Park
Dazaifu Amusement Park (だざいふ遊園地), opened 1957 as Dazaifu-en, is a retro amusement park on Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine grounds in Fukuoka, run by Nishitetsu, with about 20 gentle rides for young children and about 160,000 yearly visitors.
Dazu Rock Carvings
Dazu Rock Carvings (大足石刻), Chongqing, China: five clusters of 9th-13th century Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian cliff sculptures, over 50,000 figures; UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed December 1, 1999, criteria (i)(ii)(iii).
De Hondsrug UNESCO Global Geopark
De Hondsrug UNESCO Global Geopark, the Netherlands' first geopark (2013; UNESCO status 2015), protects a ~1,000 km² Saalian ice-age landscape in Drenthe and Groningen, centered on the 70 km Hondsrug megaflute ridge.
De Luna
De Luna (ДеЛуна) is a 24-hour casino, bar, and billiard hall at Maladziožnaja vulica 194, Navapolatsk, Belarus, offering poker, blackjack, roulette, and slots; distinct from Spain's Luna Casino and León's Casino Conde Luna.
Dea Dia (temple)
Dea Dia (temple): round Roman temple in a sacred grove at the fifth milestone of the Via Campana, modern La Magliana, Rome; cult center of the twelve Arval Brethren, findspot of the Acta fratrum arvalium, excavated 1868–69 by Henzen.
Dealey Plaza
Dealey Plaza is a 3.1-acre Dallas park built 1934-1940 as the city's western gateway, named for publisher George Bannerman Dealey, and the site of President Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963; a National Historic Landmark District restored to its 1963 appearance.
Death Valley Germans
Death Valley Germans: Dresden family of four (Egbert Rimkus, Georg Weber, Cornelia Meyer, Max Meyer) who vanished in Death Valley National Park in July 1996; their stuck rental van was found that October, and their remains were located in 2009 near Goler Wash.
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park (CA/NV), formerly Death Valley National Monument (1933, park 1994), is the largest U.S. national park outside Alaska: Badwater Basin at 282 feet below sea level, 130°F heat, borax mining history, Timbisha Shoshone homeland.
Decaniacum
Decaniacum, also Decaniacus, an ancient Gallo-Roman estate name identified with Dégagnac in Lot, France; attested as the country estate of Ruricius, bishop of Limoges, in his late fifth-century letters.
Decennovium
Decennovium, Latin "nineteen-miler": the 19-mile Via Appia stretch between Forum Appii and Terracina across the Pontine Marshes, with its parallel towing canal, attested from Trajanic milestones and Theodoric-era inscriptions.
Deciana
Deciana (TP: Declana; Ptolemy: Δεκιάνα) was a Roman road station on the Gaul–Hispania road over the Pyrenees, between Iuncaria and In summo pyreneo, near modern La Jonquera; its exact site is unlocated.
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (Hälsingegårdarna), Sweden's 15th UNESCO World Heritage site (2012, criterion v): seven 19th-century timber farms with Herrstuga festivity rooms painted by local and Dalarna itinerant artists.