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Fantasy Springs (ファンタジースプリングス)

Fantasy Springs (ファンタジースプリングス) is the eighth themed port of Tokyo DisneySea, opened June 6, 2024. Its $2.1 billion Frozen, Tangled, and Peter Pan areas hold four attractions, three restaurants, and the Fantasy Springs Hotel.

Fantasy World - Kids

FantasyWorld (Fantasy World - Kids) is a Philippine chain of air-conditioned indoor playgrounds in SM/Ayala malls, unconnected to the abandoned Batangas theme park. Children 1-17 need an adult guardian, anti-slip socks are required, and its SM City Fairview flagship opened in 2024 as the country's largest indoor amusement park.

Fantawild

Fantawild (华强方特) is a Shenzhen-based Chinese culture and technology group, founded 2006 under Huaqiang Group, NEEQ 834793, operating 30+ theme parks across China, ranking fifth globally in attendance, and producing the Boonie Bears animation series.

Fantawild Adventure

Fantawild Adventure (方特欢乐世界) is Fantawild Holdings' sci-fi and interactive theme park brand, first opened at Wuhu in 2008, with locations including Tai'an, Zhuzhou, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, Jiayuguan, and Datong, known for high-tech dark rides.

Fantawild ASEAN Legend

Fantawild ASEAN Legend (方特东盟神画), also called Fantawild Asian Legend, is a theme park in Nanning, Guangxi, China, that opened in 2018 and presents the cultures of the ten ASEAN countries through rides.

Fantawild Theme Park

Fantawild Theme Park (方特) is a chain of more than 20 high-tech theme parks across China, ranked fifth among world theme park groups in 2019, with parks exported to Ukraine.

Fanum Fugitivi

Fanum Fugitivi, also Fano Fugitivi, was an ancient road station on the Via Flaminia in Umbria between Spoleto and Terni, attested in the Itinerarium Burdigalense and Peutinger Table, located at the Monte Somma pass.

Farah Bala Hisar

Farah Bala Hisar is an archaeological site in Farah province, western Afghanistan, a large fortified mud enclosure holding remains from several periods, with a castle as the latest phase.

Farallones de Cali

Farallones de Cali: rocky massif of Colombia's Western Cordillera and the 196,429.90-hectare national park (declared 1968) southwest of Cali, Valle del Cauca, spanning 200–4,100 m, four ecosystems, 626 bird species, and threatened by illegal gold mining.

Faras Cathedral

Faras Cathedral, the medieval cathedral of Pachoras in Nobadia, Sudan, built 707 CE by Bishop Paulos and King Merkuiros, decorated with over 150 Nubian Christian murals, excavated 1961–1964 before flooding by Lake Nasser, paintings now split between Warsaw and Khartoum.

Farfa Abbey

Farfa Abbey (Abbazia di Santa Maria di Farfa), Benedictine monastery at Fara in Sabina near Rieti, Italy; founded c. 560-570 by St. Lawrence Siro, an imperial abbey under Charlemagne from 775, restored 2026.

Farglory Ocean Park

Farglory Ocean Park (遠雄海洋公園), also called Hualien Ocean Park, is a 51-hectare marine theme park in Shoufeng, Hualien County, Taiwan, opened in the early 2000s by Farglory Group, with dolphin and sea lion shows, eight themed areas, and NT$990 adult tickets.

Farley Heath

Farley Heath, Albury, Surrey: site of a scheduled Romano-Celtic temple with cella and ambulatory inside an irregular polygonal temenos of about 1.2 ha, excavated 1848, 1926, 1939, and the 1990s, with finds from the Neolithic to the 5th century.

Farm in the City

Farm in the City (FITC) is a cage-less petting zoo and theme park in Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur, set in a kampung-style 7-acre park with over 150 free-roaming animal species, feeding sessions, and pony rides.

Farmen

Farmen is an ancient cemetery, necropolis, and catacomb site in Norway, catalogued in the Pleiades gazetteer as Barrington Atlas 2 F1, at 60.896578 N, 11.310561 E, dated 30 BC to AD 640.

Färnebofjärden

Färnebofjärden is an expansive complex of bays, islets, and floodplains where the Dalälven river widens in lower Dalälven, central Sweden, protected as a national park since 1998 and a Ramsar wetland.

Farnham

Farnham, Surrey: historic market town on the River Wey, 37.5 miles SW of London. Episcopal manor from Domesday; Farnham Castle, Waverley Abbey, Roman Alice Holt potteries, Mesolithic pit-dwellings; Craft Town since 2013.

Farningham

Farningham, a village in Sevenoaks district, Kent, on the River Darent, notable for three Roman villas (Villa II excavated 1948 by Meates), a bath house, Roman ditches, and Neolithic and Iron Age occupation evidence.

Faruk Yalçın Zoo and Botanical Park

Faruk Yalçın Zoo and Botanical Park (Darıca Faruk Yalçın Hayvanat Bahçesi ve Botanik Parkı), Turkey's first private zoo in Darıca, Kocaeli; opened 1993, first full Turkish EAZA member, 3,600 animals of 286 species; closed by the Yalçın family heirs, reported January 2026.

Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region

Fasil Ghebbi (ፋሲል ግቢ), the Royal Enclosure of Gondar, Ethiopia: walled 17th-century fortress-city founded by Emperor Fasilides in 1636, government seat until 1864, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

Fast & Furious: Supercharged

Fast & Furious: Supercharged is a Universal Parks attraction based on the Fast & Furious films: a 3D 360-degree-screen Studio Tour finale in Hollywood (2015) and a party-bus ride in Orlando (2018), both now closed.

Fauna Zoo

Fauna Zoo (Tierpark Fauna) is a nonprofit wildlife park in Solingen-Gräfrath, Germany, founded 1932, holding about 300 animals in 80 species on roughly 3 hectares; distinct from a Mölndal pet shop and a Mexico City zoo of the same name.

Faverolles

Faverolles (Haute-Marne, France): commune near Langres with a Gallo-Roman archaeological site, the largest known Gallo-Roman mausoleum in France, excavated 1981-1989 and protected as a Monument historique since 1990.

Faversham Roman villa

Faversham Roman villa: winged corridor villa in Faversham, Kent, exposed in 1965 under Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School playing fields, occupied c. AD 70 to late 3rd century, with hypocaust, mosaic, and Iron Age farmstead beneath; Scheduled Monument 1011804.

Faviana

Faviana (Favianis, Fafianae), Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Mautern an der Donau, Lower Austria, on the Noric Danube Limes; occupied 1st–5th century, garrisoned by Legio I Noricorum, linked to St Severin, UNESCO-listed since 2021.

Faya Palaeolandscape

Faya Palaeolandscape (Jebel Faya, جبل الفاية), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2025 in Sharjah, UAE, preserving Stone Age occupation evidence from 210,000 to 6,000 years ago across 18 archaeological layers, including FAY-NE1 and Buhais Rockshelter.

Feldberg

Feldberg (Kastell Kleiner Feldberg), a Roman fort on the Kleiner Feldberg in the Taunus north of Frankfurt, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes; highest fort on the frontier, garrisoned by the exploratio Halic(anensium) Alexandriana, occupied ca. 150-260 CE, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Felsberg

The Felsberg is a mountain in the crystalline western Odenwald in Hesse, Germany, known for the Felsenmeer, a sea of boulders, and Roman quarrying that supplied stone to 4th-century Trier.

Fen Causeway

Fen Causeway, or Fen Road (Margary 25), a Roman gravel causeway road across the East Anglian Fens from Denver, Norfolk to Durobrivae (Water Newton) near Peterborough, built in the late 1st century AD over the earlier Bronze Age Flag Fen causeway route.

Fendoch

Fendoch (also Raenfhandoch) is a Flavian Roman auxiliary fort and annexe in Glen Almond, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, occupied c. AD 80-90, excavated by Richmond in 1936-7, and deliberately dismantled around AD 86-87.