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Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens - Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens

Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens (Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens), a didactic medicinal plant garden of 400 plots in 43 beds on the UCLouvain Woluwe campus in Brussels, founded 1975 by professor Paul Moens, Belgium's largest such collection.

Enekrogen, Kannikegård, Slamrebjerg, Slusegård

Enekrogen, Kannikegård, Slamrebjerg, Slusegård is a combined Pleiades gazetteer entry for four archaeological burial sites on Bornholm, Denmark, spanning Iron Age cremation cemeteries to early medieval graves.

Energy Land

Energy Land (白浜エネルギーランド, Shirahama Energy Land) is an experiential theme park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Opened in 1981, it teaches energy through gravity and optical illusions.

Energy Plant Collection

Energy Plant Collection (能源植物园) is a living collection at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, built in 2010 on about 85 mu, holding 360+ energy plant species in 52 families across six biomass-type zones including fuelwood, starch, fiber, oil, and hydrocarbon plants.

Energylandia

Energylandia is Poland's largest amusement park, opened 14 July 2014 in Zator by Marek Goczał, with 133 attractions on 90 hectares, about 20 roller coasters including Hyperion and Zadra, and 2.5 million visitors in 2023.

Engelsberg Ironworks

Engelsberg Ironworks (Engelsbergs bruk), a preserved Swedish iron-working estate in Västmanland, founded 1681 by Per Larsson Gyllenhöök; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 with over 50 buildings and working 18th-19th century ironmaking equipment.

Engleton

Engleton: scheduled Roman winged-corridor villa and bathhouse near Brewood, Staffordshire, south of Watling Street by Pennocrucium; occupied late 2nd to 4th century AD, excavated 1937 by Wolverhampton Archaeological Society under Kathleen Kenyon.

Englischer Garten

The Englischer Garten, or English Garden, is a large public landscape park in Munich, Germany, created in 1789 by Elector Karl Theodor and covering 376 hectares, larger than Central Park.

English Harbour Naval Cemetery (Antigua)

The English Harbour Naval Cemetery in Antigua holds Royal Navy hospital and beach burials from about 1763 to 1834, mostly sailors killed by tropical disease.

English Heritage

English Heritage (English Heritage Trust) is the charity, charity no. 1140351, caring for the National Heritage Collection of over 400 state-owned sites including Stonehenge and Dover Castle under licence from Historic England since the 1 April 2015 split.

English Style Garden

The English Style Garden, also called the English landscape garden, emerged in England in the early 18th century and spread across Europe, replacing the formal French garden style.

Enisala

Enisala (Yeni-Sale, Heracleea) is a village in Tulcea County, Romania, with a 14th-century medieval fortress, probably Genoese, on Heracleea Hill above Lake Razelm; the only such fortress still standing on the Romanian coast.

Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape (protected area)

Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape, a 2016 UNESCO mixed World Heritage Site in northeast Chad, a sandstone plateau of canyons and arches with 7,000 years of Saharan rock art, relict crocodiles, and African Parks co-management.

Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape (site)

Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape (Massif de l'Ennedi) is a mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeastern Chad, inscribed 2016 under criteria (iii), (vii), (ix): a 2,441,200 ha sandstone plateau with arches, canyons, 7,000-year-old rock art, and relict desert crocodiles at Guelta d'Archei.

Ennedi Plateau

Ennedi Plateau (Ennedi Massif), sandstone plateau in northeastern Chad on the Sahara's southern edge, a 2016 UNESCO World Heritage Site with canyons, arches, gueltas, one of the Sahara's largest rock art ensembles, and Ordovician to Carboniferous strata.

Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery

Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery (Ансамбль Ферапонтова монастыря): 15th-17th century Russian Orthodox monastic complex in Vologda region, founded 1398, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000, with Dionisy's fully preserved 1502 cathedral frescoes.

Enshi Grand Canyon-Tenglongdong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark

Enshi Grand Canyon-Tenglongdong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark is a UNESCO Global Geopark in southwest Hubei, China, designated in 2024 and known for its karst landscapes.

Entry Only

Entry Only (Sólo Entrada / Only Entrance) is a Mexico City place record, built from OpenStreetMap data, that lists a Chapultepec Zoo entrance gate as a free, customers-only family attraction and zoo, open daily 09:00-17:00.

Environmental Protection Area of Cananéia-Iguape-Peruíbe

The Environmental Protection Area of Cananéia-Iguape-Peruíbe (Área de Proteção Ambiental de Cananéia-Iguape-Peruíbe) is a federal sustainable-use protected area on the coast of São Paulo State, Brazil, created in 1984.

Environmental protection plant area

Environmental protection plant area (环保植物区) is a 0.85-hectare specialized garden in Beijing's National Botanical Garden displaying over 100 air-pollution-resistant and pollution-indicator plant species; a similar area exists at Shanghai Botanical Garden.

Eokbul Folk Village

Eokbul Folk Village (억불민속촌, Eokbulminsokchon) is a theme park in Taepyeong-dong, Sujeong District, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea, on Sujeong-ro 119beon-gil near Taepyeong and Sujin stations; distinct from the Korean Folk Village in Yongin.

Eothen (Warhol estate)

Eothen is Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's Montauk, Long Island oceanfront estate, bought in 1971 for $225,000; a five-cottage former fishing camp hosting celebrities, partly preserved as the Andy Warhol Preserve, sold for $50 million in 2015.

Epaone

Epaone (Épaone, vicus Eppaonis) was a Burgundian ecclesiastical site, probably Saint-Romain-d'Albon, Drôme, France, where the Council of Epaone of 517 under Avitus of Vienne issued forty canons.

Epcot

Epcot is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, opened October 1, 1982 as EPCOT Center, the second Disney park there. It features Spaceship Earth, four neighborhoods, and 11 World Showcase country pavilions.

Epiakon (Epiacum)

Epiacum (Epiakon), also called Whitley Castle, is a lozenge-shaped Roman auxiliary fort near Alston in the North Pennines on the Maiden Way, the highest stone-built fort in Britain at 330 m, with up to seven concentric ditches and a c. AD 213 inscription by the 3rd cohort of Nervii.

Epic Universe

Epic Universe, officially Universal Epic Universe, is a theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida, opened May 22, 2025 as Universal's fourth Orlando gate.

Epidaurus (πίδαυρος)

Epidaurus, also known as Epidauros or Epidavros, was an ancient Greek city state on the Argolid peninsula of the Peloponnese, famed for its healing Sanctuary of Asklepios and Hellenistic theater.

Episcopal City of Albi

Episcopal City of Albi (Cité épiscopale d'Albi), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010 in south-west France: medieval brick ensemble with fortified Sainte-Cécile Cathedral (1282–1390), Palais de la Berbie, Pont-Vieux, built after the Albigensian Crusade.

Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč

The Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč, Croatia, is a UNESCO World Heritage site of 6th-century early Christian buildings built by Bishop Euphrasius.

Epoissum

Epoissum, also Eposium, was a Roman vicus or road station in Gallia Belgica on the Durocortorum to Augusta Treverorum road, 22 leugae from Vungo and 20 from Orolaunum, identified with modern Carignan, France.