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Dokkebi Park

Dokkebi Park (도깨비공원, Dokkaebi Gongwon) was a theme park in Jeju City, South Korea, holding about 2,300 dokkaebi figures; it opened in 2005 and closed in 2017.

Dolfinarium

Dolfinarium is a marine mammal park in Harderwijk, Netherlands, opened 9 July 1965 as the country's first dolfinarium. Owned by Aspro Parks since 2015; in 2026 the government ruled its 22 dolphins are the last, with no new breeding.

Dolia Roman Villa

Dolia Roman Villa (Villa of the Dolia), submerged Roman complex in the Bay of Agios Vlasis near ancient Epidauros, Greece; about 1,600 square meters, agricultural processing rooms, warehouse with twenty in-situ dolia; distinct from Vetulonia's Domus dei Dolia.

Dolly Sods Wilderness

Dolly Sods Wilderness: 17,371-acre federally designated wilderness (1975) in Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; windswept heath barrens, bogs, and flagged spruce at 2,500-4,700 feet, a former WWII artillery range with 47 miles of trails.

Dollywood

Dollywood is Dolly Parton's 165-acre theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, opened under her name in 1986 from a 1961 railroad attraction, with 50-plus rides, Splash Country, resorts, and about $1.8 billion annual economic impact.

Dolmen of the four Maols

Dolmen of the Four Maols (Dolmain na gCeithre Maol, Ballina Portal Tomb, Table of the Giants): Bronze Age cist tomb, c. 2000 BC, on Primrose Hill, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland; a State-guarded National Monument tied to the legend of four executed brothers.

Dolmen Park

Dolmen Park (고인돌공원) refers to South Korean parks built around goindol megalithic tombs, chiefly the Suncheon Dolmen Park, an open-air museum of 147 relocated Bronze Age dolmens saved from Juam Dam flooding, plus Ganghwa, Osan, and Yeoncheon dolmen parks.

Dólmenes de Antequera

Dólmenes de Antequera (Antequera Dolmens Site), UNESCO World Heritage property since 15 July 2016 in Andalusia, Spain: the Menga and Viera dolmens and Tholos of El Romeral, plus La Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal.

Dolphin Aquarium (Iran)

Dolphin Aquarium (Iran), best known as the Kish Dolphin Park (پارک دلفین‌های کیش), is a 100-hectare dolphinarium complex on Kish Island, home to Iran's first dolphinarium.

Dolphin Beach

Dolphin Beach refers to a 1 km kitesurfing beach in Table View, Cape Town, and Dolphin Beach Entertainment, a family-owned water park with Supertube slides and mini-golf at Jeffreys Bay's main beach, Eastern Cape.

Dolphin Explorer

Dolphin Explorer is a marine park founded in 2012 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, offering dolphin swims in sea pens (about 30 dolphins), plus sea lion, shark, ray, and bird encounters; distinct from a Marco Island boat tour.

Dolphin Fantasy

Dolphin Fantasy (ドルフィン ファンタジー) is a dolphin aquarium at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, opened July 2004, with a 16 m roofless arch tank; distinct from same-named dolphin swim facilities in Ito and Ishigaki.

Dolphinarium

Дэльфінарый (dolphinarium): a facility keeping dolphins and other cetaceans in pools for shows, swim programs, therapy, and research; welfare debate, accreditation standards, and country bans define it.

Dolphinarium "Oscar"

Дельфінарій «Оскар» (Dolphinarium Oscar), Ukrainian dolphinarium network with facilities in Kyrylivka (2011), Genicheska Hirka (2014), and Truskavets (2015), keeping Black Sea bottlenose dolphins and fur seals for shows, swims, and dolphin therapy.

Dolphins Bay Phuket

Dolphins Bay Phuket, also called Nemo Dolphins Bay, is the only dolphinarium in Phuket, located in Chalong. Opened October 31, 2015 with five dolphins and two seals from Ukraine; runs 45-minute shows, swim and photo sessions amid welfare controversy.

Domaine de Bel-Air

Domaine de Bel-Air, Le Landeron, Switzerland: 32-hectare agricultural estate with a 4.5-hectare zoo-refuge (40+ species, capybaras), insectarium, and giant corn maze; distinct from French namesake estates.

Domaine de Trévarez

Domaine de Trévarez is a Belle Époque château and park in Saint-Goazec, Finistère, Brittany, built between 1893 and 1907 for the politician James de Kerjégu.

Domaine des Grottes de Han

Domaine des Grottes de Han, a natural heritage site in Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium, pairing the Cave of Han showcave (9 °C, opened 1857) with Belgium's largest wildlife park (250 ha, 650 animals), inside the Famenne-Ardenne UNESCO Global Geopark.

Domburg

Domburg, Zeeland seaside resort on Walcheren, site of a Roman sanctuary of the goddess Nehalennia found in 1647 and of the early medieval emporium Walichrum.

Domus and Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

Domus and Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte (III,I,6), Ostia: a Republican house of the second century BC, later partly converted into a Mithraeum of the Painted Walls with initiation-grade frescoes, altars, and inscriptions of Caelius Ermeros and Aemilius Antoninus.

Domus Cilonis

Domus Cilonis: the Rome mansion of Lucius Fabius Cilo, consul 193 and 204, urban prefect and friend of Septimius Severus; a Severan gift on the Aventinus Minor, shown on the Forma Urbis, later the site of Santa Balbina.

Domus Faustae

Domus Faustae, the "House of Fausta" at the Lateran in Rome, named in Optatus for a 313 synod; tentatively identified with remains under the INPS building on via Amba Aradam, with a fourth-century frescoed corridor showing Constantine's family.

Donald J. Trump State Park

Donald J. Trump State Park is a 436-acre undeveloped passive park in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York, donated by Donald Trump in 2006 on condition it bear his name; site of a disputed valuation and renaming bills.

Doñana National Park

Doñana National Park (Parque Nacional de Doñana): national park and wetland in Andalusia, Spain, created 1969, UNESCO World Heritage 1994; famed for migratory birds, Iberian lynx, and aquifer-driven drying.

Đồng Dương

Đồng Dương (Phật viện Đồng Dương) is a ruined Buddhist monastery of the Champa kingdom, built in 875 by King Indravarman II at Indrapura in Quảng Nam province, Vietnam.

Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve

Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve (Khu Dự trữ Sinh quyển Đồng Nai), a UNESCO MAB site in southern Vietnam designated in 2001 as Cat Tien and extended in 2011, centers on Cat Tien National Park with 1,610 plant species and buffer-zone livelihood and ecotourism programs.

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex (DPKY-FC), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Thailand since 2005: five protected areas spanning 230 km, 615,500 ha, over 800 fauna species, gibbons, tigers, and Highway 304 corridor issues.

Dong Tam Snake Farm

Dong Tam Snake Farm (Trại rắn Đồng Tâm) is a Vietnam People's Army snake farm near Mỹ Tho in the Mekong Delta, treating over 1,200 snakebite cases yearly.

Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark

Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark (Cao nguyên đá Đồng Văn), Ha Giang, Viet Nam; GGN member 2010, UNESCO Geopark 2015; first geopark in Viet Nam, 17 ethnic groups, karst limestone, Tu San canyon, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey.

Dongassia Park

Dongassia Park (Don Gassia Park, دون غاسيا بارك) is a small children's amusement park in Baouchriyeh, Matn District, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, near CityMall Beirut, open afternoons to 11 PM.