Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Ecomuseum Zoo

Ecomuseum Zoo (Zoo Ecomuseum), the only outdoor zoo on Montreal island, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue; a CAZA-accredited non-profit exhibiting only Québec wildlife, mostly non-releasable animals, open 364 days a year.

Ecopark Amila

Ecopark Amila (Екопарк «Аміла») is a private ecopark and Ukraine's first red deer farm in Radovychi, Volyn Oblast, opened 2018 by Roman Mykytiuk, with 1,125 deer, a 2,000-hectare enclosure, museums, and licensed tour operation.

Ecopark Varna

Ecopark Varna (Екопарк Варна), the University Botanical Garden of Sofia University in Varna, Bulgaria: founded 1977, opened 11 May 2002 as Bulgaria's first ecopark, 36 ha, 300+ exotic tree and shrub species, 250+ iris varieties, Roman-era archaeological finds.

Ecosistema Ajos-Bavispe, zona de influencia Cuenca Río San Pedro

Ecosistema Ajos-Bavispe, zona de influencia Cuenca Río San Pedro (Ramsar site 2044) is a 182,623 ha wetland in Sonora, Mexico, designated 2 February 2010, covering the San Pedro River's Mexican course and its ciénagas, the only climax wetlands of the Chihuahuan Desert and Sierra Madre Occidental.

Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (protected area)

Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (Écosystème et paysage culturel relique de Lopé-Okanda): Gabon's first UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed 2007 as a mixed rainforest-savannah property with 1,800 petroglyphs and 400,000 years of settlement.

Eden Project

The Eden Project is an educational charity and visitor attraction at Bodelva, Cornwall, opened 17 March 2001 in a disused china clay pit, with Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, 25 million-plus visitors, £6.8 billion regional economic impact, and new Edens in Qingdao and Morecambe.

Edinburgh Vaults

Edinburgh Vaults, also called the South Bridge Vaults, are about 120 stone chambers built into the 1788 South Bridge arches, used for storage, then slum housing, sealed by the mid-1800s, rediscovered in the 1980s, and now visited by guided tour only.

Edith Pretty

Edith Pretty (née Dempster, 1883–1942), Sutton Hoo landowner, instigated the 1938–1939 excavations that uncovered the Anglo-Saxon Great Ship Burial, then donated the entire treasure trove to the British Museum and declined a CBE.

Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands

The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are a pair of wetlands in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, the last remnants of Carrum Carrum Swamp and a Ramsar site since 2001.

Educational farm

Educational farm (ferme éducative), a farm run for environmental and life education; French official definition from 2001. Documented example: Ferme éducative de Rhinau, AGF Bas-Rhin, created 1982, hosting schools, families, camps, and therapy visits.

Eetioneia Pr.

Eetioneia Pr. (Ἠετιωνεία), a fortified promontory on the western side of Piraeus' main harbor, site of the Eetionian Gate with two round towers, the Aphrodision gate, and a moat, now an expanded Greek archaeological site.

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Effigy mound

An effigy mound is an earthen mound shaped like an animal or spirit figure, built by Indigenous peoples of southern Wisconsin between about AD 650 and 1200.

Effigy Mounds National Monument

Effigy Mounds National Monument is a National Park Service unit in northeastern Iowa preserving more than 200 prehistoric Native American mounds, including 31 bear and bird effigies.

Efteling

Efteling, in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, is a fairy-tale-themed park resort opened 31 May 1952, the country's largest theme park with 5.6 million 2024 visitors and Europe's fourth largest by attendance.

Eggardon hill fort

Eggardon hill fort: Iron Age multivallate hillfort near Askerswell, Dorset, with three ramparts, two entrances, Bronze Age barrows, Isaac Gulliver's smuggling sea-mark, and National Trust ownership of its southern half.

Egišhurankia

Egišhurankia was a Mesopotamian temple of the goddess Bêlet-Ninua, a title of Ištar of Nineveh; its name means "House of the ordinances of heaven and earth", and it appears in cuneiform temple lists from first-millennium Babylonia.

Église Saint-Vincent de Marimbault

The Église Saint-Vincent de Marimbault is a 12th-century Romanesque parish church in Marimbault, Gironde, France, built on a Gallo-Roman villa and protected as a monument historique.

Ehilikalamma

Ehilikalamma (é-ḫi-li-kalam-ma), "House of the Luxuriance of the Land," was the Babylon temple of the goddess Ašratu, spouse of Amurru, in the Ka-dingirra district, attested in Tintir IV and identified with excavated sanctuary D II.

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a 330-meter iron lattice tower in Paris, built 1887-1889 by Gustave Eiffel's team for the 1889 World's Fair, saved from demolition by its radio and scientific uses, and now a major broadcast site and tourist landmark.

Eightercua

Eightercua (Íochtar Cua) is a Bronze Age four-stone row near Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland, tallest stone 2.7 m, traditionally the burial place of Scéine, wife of Amergin, with a solstice alignment claim.

Eileithyias Antron

Eileithyias Antron (Cave of Eileithyia) is the Homeric cave sanctuary of the childbirth goddess at Amnisos, Crete, in use from Neolithic to Roman times, with a sister shrine at Inatos.

Ein Gedi Eco Park

Ein Gedi Eco Park, at Kibbutz Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea, Israel, is a former children's zoo turned environmental-education site with mud structures, solar cookers, composters, and animals; entry is included in the botanical garden ticket.

Eining

Eining is a village in Lower Bavaria, Germany, the site of Abusina, a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage property.

Ekdippa

Ekdippa, also spelled Ecdippa, is the Greek and Roman name of the ancient Phoenician coastal town called Achzib in the Hebrew Bible, now Tel Akhziv in northern Israel.

Ekitušgirzal

Ekitušgirzal (é-ki-tuš-gir₁₇-zal, "House, Abode of Joy") was a temple of the goddess Bēlet-Eanna, a manifestation of Ištar, in the New City district of eastern Babylon, rebuilt by Abī-ēšuh and Nebuchadnezzar II and surviving into the Hellenistic Period; a namesake temple of Ištar stood at Ilip.

Ekituškuga

Ekituškuga (e₂-ki-tuš-ku₃-ga), also Ekibikuga, was the Sumerian ceremonial name of the ziggurat and temple of the goddess Ištar at Nineveh, near the temple Emašmaš; a royal inscription names it "Her Treasure House."

Ekklesiasterion/Theater at Metapontum

Theatre-ekklesiasterion of Metapontum (Metaponto): circular assembly building on the agora, from wooden ikria ca. 600 BC to a circular auditorium seating 7,000-8,000, replaced by a 4th-century BC semicircular theater, cavea 77.7 m.

Eko Park Zoo

Eko Park Zoo (Eko Park Piešťany) is a private contact zoo in Piešťany, Slovakia, with over 100 species in walk-through enclosures, opened without permits and ordered dismantled in 2023; a namesake zoo is in Hampyeong, South Korea.

Ekopark Holá Hora

Ekopark Holá Hora, a free-entry ecological park in Prešov, Slovakia, on Botanická street, run by Technické služby mesta Prešov; children's water world, educational programs, part of the protected area Holá hora.