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Aemines
Aemines (Portus Aemines, variants Hemines, Mines) was a Roman harbor or coastal station in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the Antonine Maritime Itinerary 506.6; proposed sites include Embiez, La Ciotat, Sormiou, and Cassis, distinct from Aeminium (Coimbra).
Aertai Amusement Park
Aertai Amusement Park (阿尔泰游乐园, Altai Amusement Park) is a 64-hectare amusement park in Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, opened May 1, 2005, operated by Hohhot Huachun Amusement Park Co., and renovated with new rides including an 88-meter Ferris wheel in 2025–2026.
Aficion Chocolate Village
Aficion Chocolate Village (歌斐颂巧克力小镇, Smerle Chocolate Park) is a chocolate factory and theme park in Dayun, Jiashan, Zhejiang, China; opened 2014, 4A-rated, 430 mu, 900 million yuan investment, about 2 million visitors in 2024.
Africa Safari Park
Africa Safari Park (Africano Park, أفريكانو بارك) is a drive-through safari zoo at kilometer 65 of the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road in Beheira, Egypt, self-described as Egypt's and the Middle East's first safari park, with car entry at 1,500 LE.
African Savannah (Israel)
African Savannah (Israel) is the drive-through open-range section of the Ramat Gan Safari, Zoological Center Tel Aviv–Ramat Gan, opened 1974, holding about 1,600 animals in mixed African herds across 250 acres.
African savannah (Ukraine)
African savannah (Ukrainian: Африканська савана) is the largest exhibition zone in the renovated Kharkiv Zoo, opened in 2021, where zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, and ostriches share one outdoor enclosure.
African Village
African Village (القرية الأفريقية) is a zoo zone of Dubai Safari Park in Al Warqa 5, Dubai, UAE, holding 37 African species including gorillas, white lions, and African elephants, with lemur and macaw feeding encounters.
Afton State Park
Afton State Park is a 1,600-acre Minnesota state park in Washington County on the St. Croix River, established 1969, opened 1982, with backpack-only camping, blufftop prairies, and 12 miles of cross-country ski trails.
Ag. Lot
Ag. Lot (Agios Lot, Lot's Cave, Deir 'Ain 'Abata) is a Byzantine monastic sanctuary in Jordan at the southeastern Dead Sea, a triple-apsed basilica church built around a cave venerated as Lot's refuge, depicted on the Madaba map and excavated 1988-1996 by Konstantinos Politis.
Ag. Sophia (Mytikas)
Ag. Sophia (Mytikas) is a paleochristian three-aisled basilica near Mytikas, Akarnania, Greece, on the site of ancient Alyzia. Excavated by P. Vokotopoulos from 1972; destroyed before 989-1028 and later used as a cemetery.
Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve
Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site (2016) in the southern Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India; 3,500 km² tropical forest with high endemism, Kani tribes, and Shendurney, Peppara, Neyyar sanctuaries plus Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve.
Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Jalisco, Mexico, inscribed 12 July 2006 under criteria ii, iv, v, vi; 35,018.85 ha of blue agave fields, distilleries, and Guachimontones between Tequila Volcano and the Rio Grande.
Agbia amphitheater
The Agbia amphitheater is a small second-century Roman amphitheater at Henchir Ain Hedja, Tunisia, about 3 km from Dougga, measuring roughly 57 x 42 m with an arena of about 946 m2 and seating near 3,000.
Ägelmoos
Ägelmoos (Beinwil-Ägelmoos, site CH-AG-01) is a UNESCO-listed prehistoric pile dwelling site under Lake Hallwil, Aargau, Switzerland, discovered in 1996, occupied from about 4400 BC to the Late Bronze Age, with main Early Bronze Age layers around 1880–1620 BC.
Agia Triada Tower
Agia Triada Tower (Πύργος Αγίας Τριάδας), also called the Tower in the Village or Tower of Vasilis, is a late Classical fortified tower and courtyard complex outside Arkesini on Amorgos, Cyclades, dated to the mid-4th century BC.
Agios Vasileios, Laconia
Agios Vasileios (Ayios Vasileios), hill 12 km south of Sparta in Laconia, Greece, site of the Mycenaean palace of Laconia, identified after five Linear B tablets found in 2008; palace built c. 1370 BCE, destroyed by fire c. 1250 BCE.
Agora at Malia
Agora at Malia: the so-called "agora", a large open courtyard northwest of the Middle Minoan palace at Malia, Crete; once read as a popular assembly place, now re-dated as a multi-phase urban sector (c. 2350–1200 BC).
Agora of Halaesa
Agora of Halaesa: excavated principal public square of Halaesa Arconidea (Tusa, Sicily), founded 403 BC; second-century-BC brick-paved square with L-shaped double portico, cult chambers, and imperial-period remodeling.
Agora of the Italians
Agora of the Italians (Porticus Italica), a late 2nd-century BC porticoed enclosure of 3440 m2 on Delos, built by Italian merchants; reinterpreted by Trümper as a luxurious porticoed garden with baths, not a marketplace.
Agricultural experience Park
Agricultural experience park (农事体验园): a venue for hands-on farming, picking, and farm education, from the 1.8-hectare IBCAS garden at China National Botanical Garden to large rural leisure-agriculture parks in China, Japan, and Korea.
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland (Södra Ölands odlingslandskap), Swedish UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape inscribed 2000 under criteria iv and v; 56,323 ha of villages, arable land, coastal lands, and Stora Alvaret limestone plain farmed for about 5,000 years.
Agua y Paz Biosphere Reserve
Agua y Paz Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Agua y Paz), a UNESCO MAB site designated 2007 in northern Costa Rica, covering 916,121 ha of the San Juan River basin with volcanoes, Ramsar wetlands like Caño Negro, Maleku indigenous territory, and major hydro, geothermal and wind energy plants.
Ahirpura Mound Or Lesser Temple Mound
Ahirpura Mound, or Lesser Temple Mound, is an ASI-protected archaeological mound (N-UP-A127) at Indor Khera, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, 225 feet south of the Kundanpura Great Temple Mound; excavated by Carlleyle in 1874-75, it yielded five skeletons and two small temple remains.
Ahugi
Ahugi, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh: ruins of three small linga temples of about 1000 AD, a centrally protected ASI monument listed as untraceable in 2018 and 2023 government records.
Ai (העי) (Canaan)
Ai (ha-'Ai, 'the ruin') is the Canaanite city of Joshua 7-8, traditionally identified with Khirbet et-Tell north of Jerusalem; excavation gaps there created the famous 'Ai problem,' with Khirbet el-Maqatir proposed as an alternative.
Ai-Khanoum
Ai-Khanoum (Aï Khanum, "Lady Moon") is a Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian city site in Takhar Province, Afghanistan, at the Kokcha–Amu Darya confluence, excavated by DAFA 1965–1978, destroyed c. 145 BC.
Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi Roman villa
Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi Roman villa: late-antique villa near San Gimignano, Siena, Tuscany, occupied 3rd-7th centuries AD, with a hexalobate hall later reduced to three apses, excavated since 2005 by UCLouvain under Marco Cavalieri.
Aianteion
Aianteion (Αἰάντειον), a promontory place near Rhoeteion in the Troad by the Hellespont where classical sources located the tomb and sanctuary of Telamonian Ajax; distinct from the Temple of Ajax on Salamis and a Thessalian mount of the same name.
Aichi International Arena
IG Arena (Aichi International Arena, 愛知国際アリーナ) is a 17,000-capacity indoor arena in Meijo Park, Nagoya, opened July 2025, replacing Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium; home of the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins, sumo's Nagoya venue, and a 2026 Asian Games site.
Aigaion Antron
Aigaion Antron (Αἰγαῖον ἄντρον) is the ancient name given to the Psychro or Diktaian cave on Mount Dikte above the Lasithi Plain, Crete, the cave of Hesiod's Theogony where Rhea hid the infant Zeus; a Minoan sanctuary excavated by Hogarth in 1899.