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Feng Shan Ecology Park
Feng Shan Ecology Park (豐山生態園區), formerly Fengshan Orchard, was a 13-hectare tropical-fruit garden in Zhongpu, Chiayi County, Taiwan, known for jaboticaba and Taiwan's only rambutan farm; official tourism data now lists it as permanently closed.
Ferlo Biosphere Reserve
Ferlo Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère du Ferlo), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site created in 2012 in northern Senegal, covering about 2,057,862 ha of Sahelian sylvo-pastoral land, including the Ferlo Nord and Ferlo Sud fauna reserves, managed for mobile pastoralism and conservation.
Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery refers to two unrelated US cemeteries: an 1863 cemetery and arboretum in Springfield, Ohio, and the Ferncliff Cemetery Association (1902) in Hartsdale, New York, with three mausoleums and notable burials.
Ferncliff Farm
Ferncliff Farm, also called the Green Springs Historic District property, is a c. 1880 brick farmhouse on Route 613 near the South Anna River in Louisa County, Virginia, documented as HABS VA-1225 within NRHP district 73002036.
Feroz Shah Kotla
Feroz Shah Kotla, also Kotla Firoz Shah, is the 1354 fortress citadel of Firozabad built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq on the Yamuna in Delhi, housing a 13 m Ashokan pillar from Ambala, the ruined Jami Masjid, and a circular baoli; ASI-protected.
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (Ferrara, città del Rinascimento e il Delta del Po) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, inscribed 1995 and extended 1999, famed for Rossetti's Addizione Erculea and the Este delizie.
Ferrari Land
Ferrari Land, PortAventura World's third theme park near Salou, Spain, opened 6 April 2017 after a 100-million-euro investment; 70,000 m2, 16 attractions, and the 112 m Red Force, Europe's tallest and fastest coaster.
Ferrari World
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, on Yas Island, is the world's first Ferrari-branded theme park and largest indoor theme park, opened 4 November 2010, home of Formula Rossa, the world's fastest rollercoaster at 240 km/h.
Ferrières
Ferrières (from Latin ferraria) is a French toponym for iron-mine sites; namesakes include Ferrières-en-Bray (attested 862), Ferrières-lès-Verreries (eponym of the Neolithic Ferrières culture), and Walloon and Norman mining towns.
Ferris wheel
Ferris wheel (site): an observation ride, koleso obozreniya or chortovo koleso, named for G.W.G. Ferris Jr.'s 75 m steam-driven wheel; covers Soviet park wheels, Pripyat's never-ridden 26 m wheel, and modern European wheels up to 74 m.
Ferrone Necropolis
Ferrone Necropolis (Necropoli della Riserva del Ferrone), Etruscan chamber-tomb cemetery in the Tolfa Mountains near Cerveteri, Lazio, Italy; used mid-7th to mid-5th century BC, about 40-50 tombs including the Tomba dei Troni and the only dado tombs of the Tolfa.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (Fertő/Neusiedlersee kultúrtáj), transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site in Austria and Hungary, inscribed 2001 under criterion (v): westernmost Eurasian steppe lake, 68,369 ha, eight millennia of viticulture and stock raising, now pressured by tourism development and water shortage.
Ffrith
Ffrith (Y Ffrith) is a village in Llanfynydd community, Flintshire, Wales, 7 km northwest of Wrexham, over a substantial Roman civilian settlement on the Chester to Caer Gai road, linked to lead mining and marked by Legio XX tiles.
Ficus auriculata
木瓜榕 (Ficus auriculata), also called 大果榕 or Roxburgh fig, is a small evergreen fig tree of southern China and neighboring Asia whose sweet figs cluster directly on the trunk.
Fig Collection
Fig Collection (榕树园) is a 1996 fig garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Yunnan, China, holding about 150 Ficus species and serving as a base for fig–fig wasp research; distinct from RHS, USDA, and Fairchild fig collections.
Figsbury Ring (United Kingdom)
Figsbury Ring, also called Chlorus Camp, is a scheduled monument near Salisbury, Wiltshire: an Iron Age univallate hillfort enclosing a probable Neolithic henge, excavated by the Cunningtons in 1924, now a National Trust and SSSI site.
Filadelfia
Filadelfia: ancient town in Media Atropatene known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana, said to be built by Arsacus II Philadelphia, perhaps near Khoy and Marand northwest of Lake Urmia; unlocated, distinct from the Philadelphias of Lydia, Amman, and Egypt.
Filitosa
Filitosa, prehistoric site at Sollacaro, Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, in the Taravo valley; discovered 1946 by Charles-Antoine Cesari, excavated by Roger Grosjean from 1954; famed for granite statue-menhirs reworked around 1200 BC, classified Monument historique 1967 and 1980.
Filo Musiaco
Filo Musiaco (Filomusiacum), an unlocated Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Vesontine (Besançon) and Abiolica (Pontarlier), 15 leugae from Besançon; proposed sites include Mouthier, Fallerans, and Nods/La Malepierre.
Filoli
Filoli is a 654-acre historic estate in Woodside, California, built 1915-1917 for William Bowers Bourn II, with a Georgian Revival mansion and 16 acres of English Renaissance gardens; a National Trust property opened to the public in the mid-1970s and famed as Dynasty's Carrington mansion.
Finchingfield
Finchingfield, Essex village (Domesday Fincingefelda, 1086): historic green, duck pond, Grade I Guildhall of 1470, 51-listed-building conservation area (1969), Roman villa sites, and a 2022-excavated medieval tile kiln.
Find a Grave
Find a Grave is a free, volunteer-built online burial database founded by Jim Tipton in 1995 and owned by Ancestry since 2013, with over 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries, memorials, photo requests, and GPS-enabled mobile apps.
Fines (France)
Fines (Ad Fines), Latin "at the border", names several Roman road stations and boundary markers in France, including the 74 AD Cordon milestone between Ceutrons and Allobroges and stations at Manheules and in the Oisans.
Fingrinhoe Roman Site
Fingrinhoe Roman Site is a multi-acre Roman archaeological site in Colchester, Essex, England, possibly a military supply base in use until about A.D. 120, with structures and a possible villa.
Finke Gorge National Park
Finke Gorge National Park, central Australia, 138 km west of Alice Springs; home of Palm Valley and the Red Cabbage Palm (Livistona mariae), 46,000 ha, jointly managed with Arrernte Traditional Owners.
Fiordland
Fiordland: south-west South Island, New Zealand region centered on Fiordland National Park (1.2 million ha, constituted 1952), part of Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area; glacial fiords, Milford and Kepler Tracks, up to 9,000 mm annual rainfall.
Fiordland National Park
Fiordland National Park, New Zealand's largest national park at over 1.2 million hectares, was constituted in 1952 and inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1986, later forming part of Te Wahipounamu. Known for Milford and Doubtful Sounds, the Milford Track, and extreme rainfall.
Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10
Ten House, FDNY firehouse at 124 Liberty Street, Manhattan, home of Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10 since 1980 and 1984; first to respond on 9/11, heavily damaged, rebuilt 2003 with the FDNY Memorial Wall.
First Landing State Park
First Landing State Park, formerly Seashore State Park, is a 2,888-acre Virginia state park at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, named for the Virginia Company colonists who first landed there in 1607.
Fishbourne
Fishbourne Roman Palace in Fishbourne, near Chichester, West Sussex, is the largest known Roman domestic building north of the Alps, built around AD 75 and possibly home to King Togidubnus.