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Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications (Cidade-Quartel fronteiriça de Elvas), a 2012 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alentejo, Portugal: the world's largest bulwarked dry-ditch system, designed by Cosmander, with the Amoreira Aqueduct and forts Santa Luzia and Graça.
Garzoubanthon/Orgibate
Garzoubanthon/Orgibate (Greek Gurzubanthon), ancient road and coastal station on the Black Sea coast of Paphlagonia, Turkey, east of Sinope; identified with modern Kurzuvet, cited BAtlas 87 A3.
Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park is a 20-acre Seattle park on Lake Union, created 1973–1976 by Richard Haag from a 1906–1956 coal gasification plant, a pioneering post-industrial landscape with ongoing contamination cleanup and 2026 tower safety removals.
Gasr el-Abid
Gasr el-Abid (Qasr al-'Abd, قصر العبد) is a ruin in Al Butnan, Libya, near Bardia; a Roman-period site on Barrington Atlas map 73 and a World War II landmark on the Trigh Capuzzo.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York: Roman Catholic cemetery established 1917, owned by the Archdiocese of New York, largest sectarian burial ground in Westchester County, resting place of Babe Ruth, James Cagney, and the Maras.
Gatehouse-of-Fleet
Gatehouse-of-Fleet: small Roman fortlet near Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (NX55NE 10, SM2479). Flavian, c. AD 81–86, one-century garrison, two ditches, turf-and-clay rampart, on the Glenlochar Roman road; excavated by St Joseph in 1960.
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska: 8.47-million-acre roadless Brooks Range unit established 1980 under ANILCA, named by Robert Marshall, least-visited U.S. national park, with six wild rivers and subsistence use.
Gateway Arch
Gateway Arch: 630-foot stainless steel catenary arch in St. Louis, designed by Eero Saarinen, completed October 28, 1965; centerpiece of Gateway Arch National Park, renamed from Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 2018.
Gateway Arch National Park
Gateway Arch National Park, formerly Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, is a 91-acre NPS unit in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, centered on Saarinen's 630-foot stainless steel Arch; redesignated a national park by Public Law 115-128 in February 2018.
Gateway of India (भारताचे प्रवेशद्वार)
Gateway of India (भारताचे प्रवेशद्वार), Mumbai arch monument at Apollo Bunder by George Wittet, Indo-Saracenic basalt arch completed 1924 to commemorate King George V's 1911 landing; last British troops left through it in 1948.
Gaudiano
Gaudiano: a hamlet of Lavello in Basilicata, Italy, site of a Roman villa in use from the Augustan period to the 7th century AD, an Early Neolithic village, and the Masseria Fortunato; also the surname of Palermo Stone donor Ferdinando Gaudiano.
Gay World Amusement Park
Gay World Amusement Park, opened as Happy World in 1937 by George Lee Geok Eng, was the last of Singapore's three World parks, with a 7,000-seat stadium, renamed 1964, demolished 2001.
Gaya Tumuli
Gaya Tumuli (가야고분군) are seven ancient tomb clusters of the Gaya Confederacy in southern Korea, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage serial site in 2023 under criterion (iii), attesting to autonomous polities sharing an iron-based culture.
Gayton Thorpe
Gayton Thorpe Roman villa: Romano-British villa in Gayton parish, Norfolk, also called Gayton Thorpe villa (NHER 3743). Two winged-corridor houses and a bath house, occupied mid-2nd to early 4th century AD, excavated 1922-23 by Atkinson, a scheduled monument.
Gazipur Safari Park
Gazipur Safari Park, formally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park (বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব সাফারি পার্ক), is a safari park in Gazipur, Bangladesh, opened 2013 on sal forest 40 km north of Dhaka, with a vehicle-only Core Safari and repeated animal welfare problems.
Gdańsk Crane
The Gdańsk Crane (Żuraw, Krantor) is a 1442–1444 medieval port crane and water gate on the Motława in Gdańsk, Poland, the oldest and largest of its kind in Europe, treadwheel-powered, war-destroyed, rebuilt, and renovated 2020–2024.
Gdynia Modernist City Centre
Gdynia Modernist City Centre, Poland: interwar downtown built from scratch 1926-1939 for the new Polish Baltic port; UNESCO World Heritage site since 27 July 2026, criterion (iv), Poland's 18th site.
Gea Norvegica UNESCO Global Geopark
Gea Norvegica UNESCO Global Geopark is a geopark in Vestfold and Telemark counties in southeastern Norway, the first in Scandinavia, admitted in 2006 and carrying the UNESCO designation since 2015.
Geauga Lake
Geauga Lake: Ohio amusement park (1887-2007) in Aurora/Bainbridge, later Six Flags Ohio and Six Flags Worlds of Adventure; SeaWorld Ohio merged in 2001; Cedar Fair closed it; site now Aurora Park redevelopment.
Gebel el-Muzawaka
Gebel el-Muzawaka (Qaret al-Muzawaka), a Roman-era rock-cut necropolis in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis, 5 km west of Qasr, with 1st-century painted tombs of Petosiris and Petubastis, rediscovered by Ahmed Fakhry.
Geghard (Գեղարդ)
Geghard (Geghardavank, Գեղարդ) is a rock-cut Armenian Apostolic monastery in Kotayk Province's Azat Valley, founded by tradition in the 4th century, with its main church of 1215, spear relic, and UNESCO World Heritage inscription in 2000.
Gelati Monastery
Gelati Monastery (გელათის მონასტერი), founded 1106 by David IV the Builder near Kutaisi, Georgia, is a UNESCO World Heritage medieval Orthodox monastery with a 12th-century apse mosaic, 12th-17th century murals, and a famed Academy.
Gelleneuve Gallo-Roman villa
Gelleneuve Gallo-Roman villa: a fourth-century late Roman villa at Mouchan (Gers), France, in a meander of the Osse, excavated 1953–1956 by Georges Fouet and Jean Boube and reused from the 6th century as a Merovingian sarcophagus necropolis.
Gelligaer
Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales: village preserving two successive Roman auxiliary forts (Flavian earth-and-timber fort c. AD 74-8; Trajanic stone fort AD 103-11, 1.4 ha, 500-strong garrison), practice camps, Roman road, bath-house annexe, and medieval St Cattwg church.
Gembira Loka Zoo
Gembira Loka Zoo (Kebun Binatang Gembira Loka) is a zoo and botanical garden in Kota Gede, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the only zoo in the Special Region of Yogyakarta.
Gemellae
Gemellae (el-Kasbat) was a Roman frontier camp and town on the Oued Djedi, 38 km southwest of Biskra, Algeria. Built by legio III Augusta in AD 132, garrisoned by Ala I Pannoniorum, it had a municipium, amphitheatre, and Dii Campestres shrine.
Genkaicho Next Generation Energy Park
Genkaicho Next Generation Energy Park (玄海町次世代エネルギーパーク), nicknamed Asupia, is a METI-certified hands-on energy education facility in Genkai Town, Saga, opened July 20, 2013, next to Kyushu Electric's Genkai Energy Park, with solar, wind, hydrogen, and biomass exhibits.
Geno Biosphere Reserve
Geno Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in southern Iran, nominated 1976, 83,115 ha in the Geno Mountains at the southern Zagros edge near the Persian Gulf, with hot springs, endemic plants, leopards, and Bandar Abbas tribe communities.
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of Renaissance and Baroque palaces in Genoa, Italy, inscribed in 2006.
Gensis
Gensis, a Roman road station on the Sirmium–Argentaria route in Pannonia Inferior, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana; 30 Roman miles from Sirmium, location still debated.