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The Temple of Apollo
The Temple of Apollo is a Grade I-listed circular garden temple of 1765 at Stourhead, Wiltshire, by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare, copied from Wood's Ruins of Baalbec; the name also denotes ancient temples at Delphi, Didyma, Corinth, and Rome.
The Temple of Athena Polias at Priene
The Temple of Athena Polias at Priene: mid-4th-century BC Ionic temple by Pytheos, architect of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassos; 6x11 columns on a 6-foot grid, dedicated by Alexander the Great, completed under Augustus.
The Temple of Heaven Ecological Popular Science Garden
The Temple of Heaven Ecological Popular Science Garden (天坛生态科普园), built 2014 in Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park, is a 13,000 m² education site with plant zones, 34 ancient trees, and birdlife, hosting 130+ annual science courses reaching 5 million people.
The Temple of Janus (Rome)
The Temple of Janus (Ianus Geminus) was a small wooden shrine in the Roman Forum whose doors stood open in war and were ceremonially closed in peace.
The Temple of Venus
The Temple of Venus names several buildings: William Kent's c.1731 Palladian garden temple at Stowe (Grade I), Hadrian's huge Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome (121 AD), a Hadrianic bath hall at Baiae, plus West Wycombe, Pompeii, and a Meissen porcelain sculpture.
The Theater of Larissa
The Theater of Larissa (First Ancient Theatre of Larissa, Α' Αρχαίο Θέατρο Λάρισας) is a Hellenistic theater at the foot of the Frourio hill in Larissa, Thessaly.
The Toivonen Animal Park
The Toivonen Animal Park (Toivosen Eläinpuisto ja Talonpojanmuseo) is a family-run farm animal park and open-air peasant museum in Kälviä, 10 km north of Kokkola, Finland. Founded by Matti Toivonen in 1985, it has about 50 buildings, 12,500 exhibits, 15 animal species, and roughly 30,000 summer visitors a year.
The Tomb of Protesilaus
Tomb of Protesilaus, hero sanctuary near Elaeus on the Thracian Chersonesus (Gallipoli, Turkey), honoring the first Greek killed at Troy; famed for its elms, Herodotus' Artayctes story, and Philostratus' On Heroes.
The Trulli of Alberobello
The Trulli of Alberobello (I trulli di Alberobello), a 1996 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Puglia, Italy, protects over 1,600 corbelled dry-stone limestone dwellings with conical roofs in Rione Monti and Aia Piccola.
The Underwater Observatory Marine Park
Underwater Observatory Marine Park, Eilat, Israel; founded 1975 by the Kahn family; a Coral World International marine park whose tower lets visitors view Red Sea reef life 6 m below sea level, with over 800 species, Shark World, and Coral 2000.
The Valley of Turtles
La Vallée des Tortues (La Vall de les Tortugues), a zoological park in Sorède, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, founded by Françoise Malirach in 1998 and opened in 2000; over 30 turtle species, about 500 tortoises including 300 kg Aldabra giants, on two hectares.
The Viking Garden
Vikinghagen (The Viking Garden), Oslo Botanical Garden, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo: permanent outdoor Viking Age plant exhibition opened 31 August 2014, a 33-meter corten-steel ship-shaped time machine with about 70-150 useful plants, distinct from the Kristiansand Millennium Garden group and Viking Garden Buildings.
The Waterfront
The Waterfront is the lowland area of Ocean Park Hong Kong, renamed from the Lowland under the 2005 HK$5.55 billion redevelopment. It holds Aqua City with the Grand Aquarium, Amazing Asian Animals, and Whiskers Harbour, and links to The Summit by cable car and the Ocean Express funicular.
The Westgate
The Westgate, or West Gate, names several English town gatehouses: the c1380 Canterbury gate, Winchester's Grade I Westgate, Southampton's gunport tower, and demolished gates at Oxford and Ipswich.
The wider area of Mount Olympus
The wider area of Mount Olympus, Greece, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2026 under criteria (vi) and (x), combining the mythical abode of the Twelve Olympian Gods with the Dion archaeological site and a Mediterranean plant endemism hotspot.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Universal's themed lands at Orlando, Osaka, Hollywood, and Epic Universe, from Hogsmeade (2010) and Diagon Alley (2014) to Ministry of Magic (2025), with Forbidden Journey, Gringotts, and interactive wands.
The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atlántida
The Church of Atlántida (Cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes), Estación Atlántida, Uruguay: Eladio Dieste's 1958–1960 reinforced-brick church with Gaussian vaults, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 under criterion (iv), dossier 1612.
The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design
The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design: UNESCO World Heritage serial property (inscribed 28 July 2021, criterion iv) of Plečnik's interwar public spaces, bridges, library, markets, churches and Žale cemetery, organized on land and water axes.
Theater 1 (Telmessos)
Theater 1 of Telmessos (Telmessus), the main ancient theater of Telmessos in modern Fethiye, Turkey: a Roman-period Lycian theater with a ca. 78 m cavea, 27 rows, 5,000–8,000 capacity, an orchestra later converted to a gladiatorial arena, Trajan-era honorific statues, and ongoing restoration.
Theater at Bodrum
Theater at Bodrum (Bodrum Antik Tiyatrosu), a 4th-century BC Hellenistic Greek theatre of ancient Halicarnassus cut into Göktepe's slope; excavated 1973, restored 2002, about 3,100 seats today, not a Roman amphitheatre.
Theater at Bulla Regia
Theater at Bulla Regia: 2nd-century Roman theater in northwest Tunisia, 60 x 50 m, vaulted cavea seating 2,500-3,000, Chemtou-marble orchestra, linked to two esplanades, among Tunisia's best preserved.
Theater at Butrint
Theater at Butrint: Hellenistic Greek theater (mid-3rd century BC) in the sanctuary of Asclepius, Butrint, Albania, renovated under Rome; famous for slave-manumission inscriptions and Julio-Claudian portraits; excavated by Ugolini from 1928.
Theater at Delphi
Theater at Delphi: ancient Greek stone theatre in the NW corner of the sanctuary of Apollo, largest building on the site; built of local limestone early 2nd century BC, rebuilt by Eumenes II (160/159 BC), 35 rows, about 4,500 seats, altered under Nero in 67 AD, host of Pythian Games music contests.
Theater at Saepinum
Theater at Saepinum (Altilia, Sepino, Molise): Julio-Claudian Roman theater built against the city walls, 61.5 m cavea, about 3,000 seats, remodeled in the 4th century, partly covered by 18th-century rural buildings now used as museums.
Theater at Sybaris/Thurii/Copia
Theater at Sybaris/Thurii/Copia: Roman hemicycle-theater (emiciclo-teatro) at Parco del Cavallo, Sibari, Calabria; mid 1st c. BC assembly building converted to a theater mid 1st c. AD, capacity about 2,000, built over the Thurii-Sybaris street grid.
Theater at Thorikos
Theater at Thorikos: ancient Greek stone theater on the Velatouri hill, Attica; early 5th-century BC origin, elliptical plan, oblong orchestra, temple of Dionysos, capacity 3,184-3,826 seats.
Theater of ancient Sicyon
Theater of ancient Sicyon: Hellenistic Greek theater at Vasiliko, Corinthia, built late 4th-early 3rd century BC (c. 303-251 BCE), cavea 125 m, orchestra 24.04 m, two Greek vaulted passages, Roman rebuilding after 146 BC, excavated 1886-1898.
Theater of Aphrodisias
Theater of Aphrodisias (Aphrodisias Antik Tiyatrosu), Roman theater at Aphrodisias, Turkey; cavea on a prehistoric mound, ~7,000 seats, three-storey marble stage building by Zoilos before 28 BCE, Archive Wall of imperial documents, arena conversion in the 2nd century CE.
Theater of Assuras
Theater of Assuras: Roman theatre at Assuras (Colonia Julia Assuras), Zanfour, Tunisia, Africa Proconsularis. 80 m cavea built against a rocky slope; scaenae frons with three doors in semicircular niches; known mainly from inscriptions.
Theater of Chersonesos
The Theater of Chersonesos is the ancient Greek and Roman theater of Tauric Chersonesos, a Dorian colony in south-west Crimea, built in the 4th or early 3rd century BC.