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La Honda, California
La Honda is an unincorporated census designated place in the redwood forests of southern San Mateo County, California, along Highway 84. Founded around John L. Sears' 1861-62 store, it is a low-density rural community in the La Honda Creek watershed.
La Petriș
La Petriș (Petriș) is a commune in Arad County, Crișana, Romania, with six villages, 13,059 ha, 1,283 residents (2021), first attested 1337, and the Salbek Castle landmark; distinct from a same-named village in Bistrița-Năsăud.
La Roche-Guyon
La Roche-Guyon is a village of about 400 inhabitants in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, on a meander of the Seine beneath chalk cliffs. It is the only Plus Beaux Villages de France village in Île-de-France, with a troglodytic castle, 12th-century donjon, and Rohan chapel bas-reliefs.
Lachau
Lachau (Drôme, France) is a Baronnies village known for the Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Le Luminaïre, with over 10,000 votive oil lamps, Selene dedications, the Romanesque Notre-Dame de Calma church, and the Tour du Riable castrum donjon.
Ladozhskaya
Ladozhskaya (Ладожская) is a stanitsa of about 14,800 people in Ust-Labinsky District, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the Kuban River, with Maeotian and Sarmatian-era archaeology; distinct from the Saint Petersburg metro station, a Moscow street, and an ornithological station of the same name.
Lahaina, Hawaii
Lahaina (Lāhainā) is a historic West Maui, Hawaii town, former Hawaiian Kingdom capital (1820–1845) and whaling port, a National Historic Landmark district largely destroyed by the deadly August 8, 2023 wildfire and now rebuilding.
Lajamanu, Northern Territory
Lajamanu (formerly Hooker Creek) is a remote Warlpiri Aboriginal community on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory, about 640 km southwest of Katherine, established 1949-50 and formally named Lajamanu in 1977.
Lake Arrowhead, California
Lake Arrowhead, California: unincorporated mountain resort CDP in San Bernardino County around a private 1920s reservoir; 12,401 residents (2020), elevation 5,175 feet, lake rights via Arrowhead Lake Association.
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid, New York: Adirondack village (2020 pop. 2,205), site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and the Miracle on Ice, home of the Lake Placid Club and ORDA-managed Olympic venues.
Lakenheath
Lakenheath is a large Suffolk fen-edge village near the Norfolk border, recorded in Domesday 1086 under Ely Abbey, home to RAF Lakenheath, the largest USAF combat-aircraft base in Europe, and the RSPB Lakenheath Fen wetland reserve.
Lakhnu
Lakhnu is a village in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, with two centrally protected ancient mounds (a 100' x 80' circular mound and another southwest of town), notified in 1920, attributed to Painted Grey Ware-era settlement and reported destroyed by 2006.
Lam Tsuen (林村)
Lam Tsuen (林村) is a valley of 23 mostly Hakka villages in Tai Po District, Hong Kong, settled since the Song dynasty, home of the Wishing Trees, the Wishing Square, and the annual Well-wishing Festival.
Landover, Maryland
Landover, Maryland is an unincorporated census-designated place in Prince George's County, a Washington, D.C. suburb of about 26,000 residents, home of Northwest Stadium (Washington Commanders since 1997) and a former FBI headquarters finalist site.
Langton
Langton, North Yorkshire: village in Ryedale near Malton, site of the Langton Roman Villa, a scheduled corridor villa excavated 1899, 1926, and 1930-31, occupied from the mid 2nd to the 5th century.
Lapford
Lapford is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England, on the River Yeo, recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book and home to the scheduled Roman fort and camp at Bury Barton, listed as Nemetostatio in the Ravenna Cosmography.
Laughlin, Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada is an unincorporated resort town on the Colorado River in Clark County, named after casino owner Don Laughlin and home to eight casino resorts.
Lauterbrunnen
Lauterbrunnen, a Bernese Oberland village and municipality in the 72-waterfall valley of the White Lütschine between Interlaken and the Jungfrau, known for Staubbach Falls, the Trümmelbach Falls, its 1890s railways, and overtourism pressures.
Lazarevskoye
Lazarevskoye (Лазаревское) is a Sochi microdistrict and center of Lazarevsky District, Krasnodar Krai, at the Psezuapse river mouth; founded 1839 as Fort Lazarev, village from 1869, in Sochi since 1961.
Le Castella
Le Castella is a Calabrian seaside village and Aragonese fortress in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, province of Crotone, on an islet of the Gulf of Squillace; recorded from 1154, rebuilt by Andrea Carafa 1510–1526, linked to admiral Uluç Alì, reopened in 2026.
Łęg Piekarski
Łęg Piekarski is a village in gmina Dobra, Turek county, Greater Poland, Poland, known for a Przeworsk Culture Roman-period cemetery and settlement complex interpreted as an amber-route center of power.
Lerna (Λέρνη)
Lerna (Λέρνη), prehistoric settlement and archaeological site at Myloi in the Argolid, Greece, 10 km southwest of Argos; famous for the Early Helladic House of Tiles and the mythological Lernaean Hydra of Herakles' second labor.
Les Brégines
Les Brégines: hamlet of Béziers, Hérault, France; site of a Roman Imperial limestone quarry (pierre des Brégines), a medieval Templar commandery (Lebressinis, 1268), and the Miocene Calcaires de Brégines formation.
Levittown, New York
Levittown, New York: Levitt & Sons' 1947–1951 tract-housing development on Long Island, 17,447 homes for veterans at $7,000 with FHA mortgages, built by reverse assembly line, racially exclusive by covenant.
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Levittown, Pennsylvania, a planned Bucks County suburb built by William Levitt in the early 1950s for WWII veterans; over 17,000 homes; site of the 1957 Myers family integration crisis; 2020 population 52,699.
Libochovice
Libochovice (Libochowitz), town in Litoměřice District, Czech Republic, on the Ohře river; 2,965 residents in 2011. Known for its early Baroque chateau by Antonio della Porta (1683–1689), a national cultural monument, and as birthplace of Jan Evangelista Purkyně.
Lickfold
Lickfold, a hamlet in Parham parish, Horsham, West Sussex, is the site of a scheduled Romano-British bath house (about AD 125 to after AD 364) with hypocausts, pottery kilns, and metalworking remains near Roman roads.
Lidgate
Lidgate is a small village and civil parish in West Suffolk, England, on the B1063 between Exning and Clare. Known for its 12th-century motte-and-bailey castle (built about 1143, remodelled as a 16th-century fortified manor), a Roman corridor-villa discovered in 1971, and a Domesday settlement of two manors recorded in 1086.
Lidice
Lidice, a Czech village 20 km west of Prague, was destroyed by Nazi forces on 10 June 1942 in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination; 173 men were shot, women deported, children mostly gassed, and a new Lidice and memorial later built.
Lindos (Λίνδος)
Lindos (Λίνδος) is a town and archaeological site on Rhodes, Greece, one of the island's three ancient city-states. Its 116 m acropolis holds the temple of Athena Lindia, a Hellenistic stoa, theater, and Knights' castle.
Lipica, Sežana
Lipica, in the Municipality of Sežana, Slovenia, is the 1580 Habsburg stud farm where the Lipizzan horse breed originated; oldest European single-breed stud, a 1996 cultural monument, and part of the 2022 UNESCO intangible heritage inscription.