Category
Places
Transport infrastructure, religious and cultural sites, and other documented locations.
- Alabama
The 22nd U.S. state, choosing its next governor in a 2026 Tuberville–Jones rematch; one of eight states still taxing groceries and the only state to carry out executions by nitrogen gas.
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city, founded in 1706 on the Rio Grande, is a Pueblo and Native-affairs hub, a military and high-technology centre, and home of the October Balloon Fiesta.
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh is a state on India's south-eastern coast whose capital question was settled by Parliament in 2026: the AP Reorganisation (Amendment) Act gives Amaravati statutory recognition as the state's sole capital, ending a six-year three-capitals battle.
- Anwyl of Parc and Llugwy Hall
summary: A Welsh gentry family, seated at Parc in Llanfrothen and later at Llugwy Hall in Pennal, Merionethshire, documented from the 16th to the early 20th century in two Cadw-listed houses and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
- Arizona
Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, is the 48th US state: a desert-and-plateau state of 7.6 million people, the country's leading copper producer, and home in Scottsdale to a national legal-advocacy organization.
- Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy formed in 1901 from six British colonies, spanning the Australian continent and Tasmania, and home of the Afterpay fintech story.
- Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is an energy-rich, predominantly Shi'i Muslim country of eastern Transcaucasia on the Caspian Sea, bordered by Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Turkey, with Baku as its capital.
- Baltimore
Maryland's largest city — the 1729 tobacco port behind the Star-Spangled Banner, and ABET's headquarters city since 1996.
- Barrow upon Soar
Barrow upon Soar is a large Leicestershire village on the River Soar between Leicester and Loughborough, known for its limestone quarries, the 1851 plesiosaur nicknamed the Barrow Kipper, and the 2008 rail crash.
- Barrow upon Soar railway station
Barrow-upon-Soar is an unstaffed two-platform station on the Midland Main Line, opened in 1840, demolished after its 1968 closure, rebuilt in 1994, and marked by two bridge disasters in 2008 and 2016.
- Bihar: from ancient Magadha to India's most densely populated state
Bihar is a state in eastern India, capital Patna, counted at 104,099,452 people in the 2011 census. The Ganges bisects it; its soil holds Magadha, Bodh Gaya, Nalanda and the Champaran satyagraha — and an economy growing faster than India's while its per-capita income stays the lowest.
- Bina Equestrian Center
Bina Equestrian Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, hosts chovqan's World Championship, the President's Chovqan Cup final, the Chovqan Super Cup final, and the founding assembly of the International Chovgan Federation.
- Blackwell, Oklahoma
Kay County city from the 1893 Cherokee Outlet land run — oil, gas, and zinc-smelting boomtown, rebuilt after a 1955 F5 tornado, still living with the smelter's legacy.
- Busan
South Korea's second-largest city and principal port — the 1950–53 wartime provisional capital, landing port of the Turkish brigade, and home to the world's only United Nations cemetery, now seeking UNESCO status.
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa
A Chaldean Catholic cathedral in Ankawa, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, whose gardens sheltered thousands of Christians fleeing the Islamic State's 2014 Nineveh Plain offensive; it later hosted Cardinal Pietro Parolin's Christmas 2018 Mass during a Vatican visit to Iraq.
- Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico is the heart of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987, and the centre of a 2025-2026 campaign to permanently protect the wider Greater Chaco landscape from oil and gas leasing.
- Chile
Chile is a long, narrow South American republic on the Pacific coast, stretching from Peru to Cape Horn between the Andes and the Pacific, with Santiago as its capital and 18,480,432 people enumerated in the 2024 census.
- City of Columbus, Ohio
Ohio's capital and largest city, home to about 938,000 people, whose city attorney has filed at least a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration — most recently over counterterrorism grants tied to federal election demands.
- Clyde Metro
A multi-decade, multi-billion-pound mass transit proposal for the Glasgow City Region, launched by Transport Scotland in 2022, that has absorbed the long-stalled Glasgow Airport rail link as one of many components still under study as of September 2026.
- Colorado
Colorado, the Centennial State, is the 38th US state: a high plains-to-Rockies state of nearly 6 million people, and the recurring courtroom venue for a national legal group's First Amendment cases.
- Council Bluffs, Iowa
A city of about 62,700 in western Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska — county seat of Pottawattamie County and the designated eastern terminus ("Mile 0") of the first transcontinental railroad. Also a data-center hub where Google has invested more than $20 billion since 2007.
- Delaware
The First State — first to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787 — and the legal home of corporate America: 2.2 million registered entities, about two-thirds of the Fortune 500, and a 2025 stress test over its dominance.
- Derby
Derby is a city and unitary authority in Derbyshire, England, on the River Derwent — a Roman and Viking settlement, home of the Silk Mill and the Midland Railway, Rolls-Royce's works, and a city since 1977.
- Detroit
Detroit, the Motor City, is Michigan's largest city: founded as a French fort in 1701, the 20th-century center of the American auto industry, birthplace of Motown, and the city that filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history in 2013.
- District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the 68-square-mile U.S. federal district containing Washington, D.C. Its 690,000 residents pay among the highest federal taxes per capita of any jurisdiction yet have no voting representation in Congress, while Congress retains veto power over local laws.
- England
England, the largest UK nation with 58.8 million people, has no parliament of its own and is governed from Westminster, with a history running from Æthelstan's 927 kingdom to the Industrial Revolution.
- G Line (RTD)
summary: An 11.2-mile Denver-area electric commuter rail line built under RTD's Eagle P3 public-private partnership, opened in April 2019 more than two years late after crossing-gate safety failures, cut to 30-minute service during the pandemic, and restored to 15-minute daytime frequency in June
- Ganja
Ganja is a historic city in western Azerbaijan on the Ganja Chay, home of the poet Nizami Ganjavi, seat of the Ganja Khanate until 1804, and now the country's third-largest urban place.
- Gaza Strip
A coastal enclave of roughly 360 square kilometers holding about 2.3 million people — one of Earth's densest places — whose economy went literally underground after a 2007 blockade, and which was devastated by the 2023–2025 war.
- Gedabey
Gedabey is a mountain town in western Azerbaijan, capital of Gadabay District, known for its Siemens-era copper and gold mines and the Gedabek mine still worked today.
- Glasgow Airport Link
A direct rail connection between Glasgow city centre and Glasgow Airport, proposed and then scrapped twice since 2006, most recently reduced by 2026 to an unfunded "exploration" within the wider Clyde Metro mass-transit proposal.
- Goa
India's 25th state (statehood 30 May 1987), capital Panaji, governed by a 40-seat Legislative Assembly and permanent host of the International Film Festival of India since 2004; it leads India in per-capita income and received 104 lakh tourist arrivals in 2024.
- Grenada
Caribbean "Isle of Spice" of 344 sq km and about 110,000 people; independent since 1974, it lived through the 1979-83 Bishop era and the U.S.-led intervention, and in 2021 named TRON founder Justin Sun its WTO ambassador.
- Himachal Pradesh
A Western Himalayan Indian state that became the 18th state of the Indian Union on 25 January 1971, with capitals at Shimla and Dharamshala, 82.8% literacy (2011 Census), and a home-state link to freedom fighter Wazir Ram Singh Pathania, dramatised in "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" Season 2.
- Holy Face of Lucca
An 8-foot wooden crucifix in Lucca Cathedral, Italy, radiocarbon-dated to the 8th-9th century and credited by medieval legend to Nicodemus, that became one of medieval Europe's most widely invoked relics.
- Idaho
Idaho, the Gem State, is the 43rd US state, admitted July 3, 1890, with Boise as its capital, over 60 percent federal land, and the nation's first women's-sports law (March 2020) — the law the Supreme Court upheld in Little v. Hecox in June 2026.
- India
The Republic of India (Bharat): a multiparty federal republic of 28 states and 8 union territories — the world's most populous country, its largest electorate, and the home of the world's longest written constitution.
- Iowa
A Midwestern U.S. state of about 3.24 million people (2025 estimate), admitted to the Union as the 29th state on December 28, 1846. The leading U.S. corn producer — with a record 2.77-billion-bushel harvest in 2025 — and a major insurance hub centered on Greater Des Moines.
- Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran: 1.6 million sq km, about 87.3 million people, capital Tehran; ruled by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei since the February 2026 assassination of his father, locked in war and nuclear negotiations with the United States.
- Israel
State of Israel: 22,072 sq km, about 9.1 million people, proclaimed capital Jerusalem; 27 days from an October 27, 2026 election, presiding over a Gaza "ceasefire" whose machinery — Board of Peace, NCAG, 15-point roadmap — remains stalled.
- Istanbul
Turkey's largest city and economic capital, straddling Europe and Asia — and the city where the real-life Ayla story's reunion and farewell unfolded, and where cinema was put to work as diplomacy in 2025.
- Italy
Italy, the boot-shaped southern European republic with Rome as capital, unified in 1861, a founding EU member, and home to 62 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
- Japan
Japan is a constitutional monarchy of 14,125 islands under its first woman PM, Sanae Takaichi — the world's fourth-largest economy and record film market.
- Jharkhand
India's 28th state, formed on 15 November 2000 from 18 districts of Bihar under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. Capital Ranchi; an 81-seat legislature; 26.2% Scheduled Tribe population; around 40% of India's mineral reserves.
- Kansas: the Sunflower State, from Bleeding Kansas to Tornado Alley
The 34th state, admitted January 29, 1861, as a free state after the Bleeding Kansas conflict — a Great Plains state of wheat, cattle, and aircraft manufacturing that sits in the heart of Tornado Alley and holds the geographic center of the contiguous United States.
- Kartarpur Corridor
The Kartarpur Corridor is the visa-free pilgrim passage linking Dera Baba Nanak in India to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan — a rare peacetime cross-border corridor, suspended since May 2025 amid renewed security tensions.
- Katas Raj temple complex
A Hindu temple complex around a sacred pond in Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan, managed by the Evacuee Trust Property Board and the subject of Supreme Court proceedings over groundwater extraction.
- Katowice-Muchowiec Airfield
A general-aviation aerodrome in central Katowice, Poland, opened in 1926 as one of interwar Poland's most modern airports. A 2006–2007 aeroclub property dispute and a 2023 city agreement shaped its shift toward business use, with a new runway finished in 2026.
- Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country and the ninth-largest country overall, a Central Asian republic of steppe, desert and mountains that left the Soviet Union in 1991 and grew rich on oil and uranium.
- Khyzy
Khyzy (Xızı, Khizi) is a town in eastern Azerbaijan, capital of Khizi District, known for the Candy Cane Mountains, Altyaghach National Park, and the 240 MW Khizi–Absheron wind farm.
- Kilifi County
A coastal county in Kenya (county code 003), formed in 2010, home to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi, the 1968 Watamu marine parks, and a 2025 New York Times travel-list mention.
- Las Vegas, Nevada: the railroad town that became the world’s entertainment capital
Nevada's largest city and seat of Clark County — a 1905 railroad town in the Mojave Desert, remade by 1931 gambling legalization and the Hoover Dam boom into the world's entertainment capital, whose famous Strip mostly lies outside its limits.
- Leicester
Leicester is an East Midlands city of about 368,600 people on the River Soar, a Roman town where Richard III's skeleton was found under a car park in 2012, home to Diwali celebrations among the largest outside India and to Leicester City's 5,000-1 title win of 2016.
- Leicestershire
Leicestershire is an East Midlands county of about 1.13 million people, centred on the River Soar valley and the city of Leicester, where Bosworth Field ended the Wars of the Roses, Charnwood Forest holds some of Britain's oldest fossils, and Melton Mowbray gave the world the pork pie.
- Lincoln Beach amusement park
A segregation-era beach and amusement park built for Black residents of New Orleans, which hosted Fats Domino, Nat King Cole and Irma Thomas before closing in the mid-1960s; added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2024, it is now the subject of a city-led redevelopment whose
- London
London, the UK capital on the Thames, is a 9.1-million-person global financial and cultural centre governed by a Mayor and Assembly, with roots in Roman Londinium.
- Los Angeles
Los Angeles is America's second-largest city and the permanent stage of the film industry — home of the Academy Awards, the union-drawn 30-mile studio zone, and the country's busiest container port.
- Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is India's second-largest state by area, formed on 1 November 1956 with Bhopal as its capital. In 2026 it became a semiconductor investment destination: Spain's Submer pledged ₹19,000 crore and Paras Semiconductors signed a ₹6,200 crore OSAT chip-packaging deal in the state.
- Marland, Oklahoma: the railroad town that moved twice and took an oilman’s name
A town of 183 people in Noble County, Oklahoma, founded as Bliss around 1898 as a Santa Fe shipping point for the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, moved twice by its founders, and renamed Marland in 1922 for oilman Ernest W. Marland — eight miles east of where the 1955 Blackwell F5 tornado touched down.
- Massachusetts: the Bay State, its 1780 constitution, and the freedom suit it enabled
The Bay State: a New England commonwealth admitted in 1788, home of the 1780 constitution — the oldest still in use — and of the Sheffield-to-Freeman liberty thread.
- Michigan
Michigan, the Great Lakes State, is the 26th US state: two peninsulas joined by the Mackinac Bridge, home to about 10.1 million people, the historic center of the American auto industry, and the country's top tart-cherry producer.
- Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is the railway from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester, Derby and Nottingham, completed in 1870, now electrified to Wigston with the rest paused — and the line blocked by the 2008 Barrow derailment.
- Milan
Milan (Milano), capital of Lombardy in northern Italy and the country's second-largest city, is Italy's leading financial centre and a world capital of fashion, design and opera — and, in 2026, co-host of the Winter Olympics.
- Morocco
Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in western North Africa, with Rabat as capital, Casablanca as largest city, and 36.8 million people at the 2024 census.
- Mumbai
Mumbai, India's financial capital and the capital of Maharashtra, is governed by the country's richest municipal body, hosts Asia's oldest stock exchange, and is home to Graphiti Multimedia, the studio behind "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy."
- Neverland Ranch
Michael Jackson's 2,700-acre Santa Barbara County estate — private zoo, amusement park, site of two police raids — sold to Ron Burkle for $22M in 2020.
- New Delhi: India's planned capital, from Raisina Hill to Central Vista
New Delhi is the capital of India: the planned city built south of Old Delhi after the 1911 announcement moving the capital from Calcutta, inaugurated in 1931. The name means three different things — a 42.7 sq km municipal area, a revenue district, and shorthand for the seat of government.
- New Mexico
New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, is the fifth-largest US state, admitted 47th in 1912, with Santa Fe as capital and Chaco Canyon's ancient Pueblo great houses as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- New York City
The most populous U.S. city — 8.8 million people across five boroughs consolidated in 1898 — and the founding ground of America's engineering accreditation system.
- Niamey
The capital and largest city of Niger, on the Niger River in the country's southwest, founded as a colonial capital in 1926 and grown rapidly since World War II into a fast-growing Sahelian metropolis.
- Niger
A landlocked West African country of about 29.3 million people, named for the Niger River, independent from France since 1960 and governed by a transitional military government since the July 2023 coup.
- Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, a West African federal republic of 36 states known for oil, Nollywood, Afrobeats and hundreds of languages.
- North Korea
North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is an authoritarian single-party state occupying the northern Korean Peninsula, ruled by Kim Jong Un since 2011, with a centrally planned economy, a nuclear arsenal, and one of the world's strictest international sanctions regimes.
- Norwich
Norwich is the county town of Norfolk, England, on the River Wensum — a medieval wool city, England's first UNESCO City of Literature, and the destination of the 06:13 Nottingham service derailed at Barrow upon Soar.
- Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in Nottinghamshire, England, on the River Trent — Saxon Snotingaham, lace capital, home of the Robin Hood legend and a UNESCO City of Literature.
- Oklahoma: the Sooner State, from Indian Territory to the 46th state
Oklahoma — admitted November 16, 1907, as the 46th U.S. state — is a south-central state shaped by its origin as Indian Territory, home to 38 federally recognized tribal nations, an oil-and-agriculture economy, and violent tornadoes including the 1955 F5 at Blackwell.
- Oval Office
The U.S. president's formal office in the White House's West Wing — a room that has existed for only about half the building's history, and whose iconic status was built by FDR-era press conferences rather than by architects alone.
- Pakistan
Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is South Asia's fifth-most-populous country, born at the 1947 partition of British India, home to the Indus Valley's Mohenjo-daro, and now the venue of a live court fight over child marriage.
- Palasa-Kasibugga
Palasa-Kasibugga is a twin-town municipality in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh — the centre of the state's cashew-processing industry and, since a November 2025 temple stampede that killed nine devotees, the focus of a national temple-safety reckoning.
- Palm Beach, Florida
The barrier-island town that got its name from a wrecked Spanish brig's 20,000 coconuts — a failed commercial coconut scheme that became Henry Flagler's Gilded Age resort, a defensively incorporated town, and the residential anchor of 'Wall Street South.'
- Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, set on the Seine in the Île-de-France region, known for its 20 arrondissements, its Enlightenment-era 'City of Light' name, and its commerce and culture.
- Periodic Spring
A rhythmic spring in Wyoming's Swift Creek Canyon near Afton, reported as the world's largest known intermittent spring, whose flow cycles on and off through a natural siphon in the Madison limestone; it has also served as Afton's municipal water supply since 1958.
- Poland
Poland is a Central European parliamentary republic of about 37 million people, rebuilt from partitions, war and communist rule into a market democracy and the largest economy in Central Europe.
- Raipur–Dhamtari Branch Line
A 2-foot-6-inch narrow-gauge railway in Chhattisgarh, India, opened in 1900 under the Bengal-Nagpur Railway and closed on 30 April 2017 after 117 years so its Raipur-end stations could make way for an expressway to Swami Vivekanand Airport.
- Renuka Lake and Temple
A Hindu pilgrimage site in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India, centred on a lake named for the goddess Renuka and a Ramsar-listed wetland since 2005 — this profile covers the physical lake-temple complex and its annual fair, not the goddess as a religious concept.
- San Francisco
California city founded as a Spanish presidio and mission in 1776, transformed by the Gold Rush, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and host of the 1945 conference that created the United Nations.
- Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California's Spanish-colonial coastal city of ~88,000 — rebuilt after the 1925 quake, and primary filming base of the 2026 biopic Michael.
- Shamakhi
Shamakhi is a historic city in central Azerbaijan, once the Shirvanshahs' capital, known for its 8th-century Juma Mosque, its poets, and the Caucasus's largest observatory.
- Sheffield, Massachusetts
Sheffield is the oldest town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where the 1773 Sheffield Resolves were drafted and where Elizabeth Freeman won her freedom suit in 1781.
- Silk Road
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes linking China with the Mediterranean world, carrying silk, spices, faiths and technologies across Eurasia for over a millennium.
- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
A 1908 synagogue building in Washington, D.C. that was reimagined in 2004 as a nonmembership Jewish congregation and cultural venue blending religious services with concerts, comedy and talks.
- South Korea
South Korea is the only country with a United Nations cemetery — 2,339 Korean War dead rest in Busan under permanent UN management — bound to Türkiye by a "blood brother" bond, home to Asia's fourth-largest economy, and the country with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.72).
- Soviet Union
The Soviet Union (USSR, 1922–1991) was a transcontinental communist state spanning northern Eurasia, the world's largest country, which ended in 1991 with 15 independent republics.
- Sydney
"Australia's largest city and the capital of New South Wales: a harbour city founded as a British penal colony in 1788, remade by migration, crowned by the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, and the birthplace of Afterpay."
- Trump Taj Mahal
Atlantic City casino-hotel Donald Trump opened in 1990 at a reported cost of $1.2 billion. Four bankruptcies, a record $10 million anti-money-laundering fine, and two early UFC events followed before it closed on the anniversary of the 1989 helicopter crash that killed its intended opening team.
- Tennessee
A southeastern U.S. state of about 7.3 million people (2025 estimate), admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796 as the 16th state. Known as "The Volunteer State," home of Nashville and Memphis, and host of Great Smoky Mountains National Park — the most-visited national park in the country.
- Texas
Texas, the Lone Star State, is the second-largest US state by area and population, admitted 28th in 1845, with Austin as capital, a $2.77 trillion energy-led economy, and the country's only Pueblo community in its west.
- Trang Due Industrial Park
An industrial park in Hai Phong, Vietnam, developed by a majority-owned Kinh Bac City subsidiary and anchored by LG Display's first OLED display factory built anywhere in the world.
- Troy, Michigan
City in Oakland County, Michigan, incorporated as a home-rule city in 1955, now the county's largest city with 87,294 residents in 2020, known for corporate headquarters including Altair Engineering and the Somerset Collection mall.
- Trump Tower
The 58-story, 664-foot mixed-use skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue — Der Scutt's bronze-glass tower on the Bonwit Teller site, rushed up in reinforced concrete to beat a 1983 tax-break deadline, and later the launchpad of a presidential campaign.
- Turkey
Türkiye — the transcontinental republic of ~86 million that sells its soap operas to 170+ countries, backs its cinema with state millions, and pairs NATO's second-largest army with a record $65 billion tourism engine.
- Udall, Kansas: the small Cowley County city rebuilt after the deadliest tornado in state history
A small city in Cowley County, Kansas, nearly erased on the night of May 25, 1955, when an F5 tornado struck without warning and killed 77 people — the deadliest tornado in Kansas history — and rebuilt from the rubble into a present-day community of about 660 residents.
- Ukraine
Eastern European state (capital Kyiv) and the counterpart in the U.S.-brokered trilateral talks with Russia. In September 2026, after American envoys' first visit to Kyiv, officials prepared an October resumption of three-sided talks.
- Umarkot Shiv Mandir
A Shiva temple near Umerkot in Sindh, Pakistan, whose own federal archaeology record rejects the popular "5,000 years old" claim, dates its chronology to 1857–1947, and lists it as privately owned and not legally protected — while it hosts a three-day Shivratri festival drawing 250,000 pilgrims.
- United Arab Emirates
Federation of seven emirates formed in 1971 with Abu Dhabi as its capital. The first Arab state in a quarter-century to normalize relations with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, it kept those ties intact through the Gaza war and joined the framework's September 2026 revival.
- United Kingdom
The United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland — is a constitutional monarchy of 69.5 million, led by Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
- United States
The United States of America: a 50-state federal republic, the world's largest economy, and the $372M home market behind the record Michael biopic.
- Uruguay
Uruguay is South America's second-smallest country, a stable democracy of about 3.5 million people on the Río de la Plata, known for beef and cellulose exports, software services, football, and candombe.
- Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked Central Asian republic of about 38.4 million people, independent since 1991, known for its Silk Road cities, cotton, gold and gas economy, and post-2017 reform drive.
- Walsh Bay
summary: Historic Sydney Harbour wharf precinct built 1912-1921 to the design of engineer Henry Deane Walsh, named for him in 1918 or 1919, heritage-listed in 1999, and redeveloped from a working port into the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, home to nine resident performing-arts companies.
- Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium in London is England's 90,000-seat national stadium — home of the 1966 final, Michael Jackson's 1988 record run and the Euro 2028 final.
- West Bank
A territory of about 3 million people west of the Jordan River — annexed by Jordan in 1950, taken by Israel in 1967, and disengaged from by Jordan in 1988. The 1995 Oslo II map still governs it: Palestinian-run Area A, mixed Area B, and Israeli-controlled Area C covering some 60% of the land.
- West Virginia
West Virginia, the Mountain State, is the 35th US state, admitted June 20, 1863, after its western counties defied Virginia's secession; Charleston is its capital, coal built its economy, and its 2021 women's-sports law became the test case for the Supreme Court's 2026 Title IX ruling.
- White House
The U.S. president's residence and workplace at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW — the white of its walls a lime wash protecting porous sandstone, once buried under more than 45 coats of paint removed over 20 years — burned in 1814, gutted and rebuilt under Truman, and still the center of the presidency.
- Youlbury House
summary: A Grade II listed 1969–1971 modernist house on Boars Hill near Oxford, built on the site of archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans's demolished mansion and designed by landscape architect Hal Moggridge — one of only three houses he ever designed.