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Town Hall (near Lincoln)

Town Hall (near Lincoln): the Grade I listed Newark-on-Trent Town Hall and former gaol, built 1774-6 by John Carr of York, listed 1950, restored 1989-91, on Newark's Market Place.

Town Hall (near Liverpool)

Liverpool Town Hall, the Grade I listed Georgian civic building of 1749-54 by John Wood the Elder on Water Street/Dale Street, rebuilt after the 1795 fire with Wyatt's dome; Lord Mayor's venue, register office, and hireable event spaces.

Town Hall (near Redditch)

Redditch Town Hall, Walter Stranz Square, Redditch, Worcestershire, is Redditch Borough Council's headquarters, being refurbished from January 2025 into a community hub housing council, NHS and commercial tenants, after the planned library relocation was cancelled.

Town of Bamberg

Town of Bamberg: UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 11 December 1993, criteria ii and iv) covering 142 ha of Bamberg's old town in Bavaria, with Bergstadt, Inselstadt, and Gärtnerstadt districts and the Bamberg model of conservation.

Town of Luang Prabang

Town of Luang Prabang (Ville de Luang Prabang) is the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1995 covering the former royal capital of Laos, on a Mekong-Nam Khan peninsula, valued for its Lao-French colonial architectural fusion and now threatened by tourism growth and the upstream Luang Prabang hydropower dam.

Toya - Usu UNESCO Global Geopark

Toya-Usu UNESCO Global Geopark (Hokkaidō, Japan): Japan's first Global Geopark, designated 22 August 2009, covering 1,181 km² around Lake Toya caldera and the active Usu volcano; revalidated with a green card in 2023.

Toyville Trolley Park

Toyville Trolley Park (トイビル・トロリーパーク) is a Toy Story-themed plaza in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea, Urayasu, Japan, opened July 9, 2012 with Toy Story Mania!, sponsored by Kao Corporation since 2015.

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square, London's largest formal public square in Westminster, laid out by Nash and Barry, home to Nelson's Column, Landseer's lions, the National Gallery, the Fourth Plinth, and the 2003 pedestrianisation.

Trafford Centre

The Trafford Centre is a large shopping and leisure centre in Dumplington, Greater Manchester, opened on 10 September 1998 and among the largest in the United Kingdom.

Traiectum Rhodani

Traiectum Rhodani, Latin for "crossing of the Rhodanus", was a Roman road station and ferry crossing of the Rhône at Tarascon on the Via Domitia, between Beaucaire (Ugernum) and Glano, attested by Polybius, the Antonine Itinerary, and the Vicarello goblets.

Train Park Hakusan

Train Park Hakusan (トレインパーク白山), formally Hakusan Municipal High Speed Rail Visitor Center, is a Shinkansen museum in Hakusan, Ishikawa, opened March 13, 2024 beside the Hakusan General Rolling Stock Depot, with simulators, a Doctor Yellow 0 Series T3 exhibit, and depot viewing decks.

Trajan's Column

Trajan's Column, a 38.4 m Luna marble victory monument in Rome's Forum of Trajan dedicated May 113 CE, carries a 190 m spiral frieze of 155 scenes on the Dacian Wars and housed Trajan's ashes.

Trajan's Kiosk

Trajan's Kiosk (Kiosk of Trajan, Pharaoh's Bed) is an unfinished Roman-period hypaethral temple of fourteen columns at Philae, Egypt, now relocated to Agilkia Island, likely a bark shrine for Isis processions.

Trajanic harbor

Trajanic harbor: the hexagonal inner basin (c. 32–39 ha) Trajan added to Portus near Ostia, 100–112 AD, sheltering ships the open Claudian basin could not, Rome's main grain port.

Trampoline Park Rorschach

Trampolinpark Rorschach (Trampoline Park Rorschach) is a 1,200 m² indoor trampoline park at Industriestrasse 21, Rorschach, St. Gallen, part of the Fägnäscht playground, with a 350 m² trampoline field, Ninja Course, parkour area, and bumper cars, open to ages 6 and up.

Transaquincum

Transaquincum: Roman bridgehead fort on the Pest (left) bank of the Danube in Budapest, opposite the legionary fortress of Aquincum; also called Contra Aquincum; 76 x 76 m, built under Commodus, rebuilt under Valentinian.

Transdierna

Transdierna (Transdiana), Roman fort on the right bank of the Danube at Tekija, Serbia, opposite Dierna (Orșova); attested by Procopius, De Aedif. IV, 4; a bridgehead pair of the Iron Gates Danube limes, active in the Dacian Wars.

Trawscoed fort

Trawscoed (Trawsgoed) Roman fort: auxiliary fort in Ceredigion, Wales, guarding a Roman road crossing of the River Ystwyth. Built late 70s AD, burnt before 100 AD, rebuilt, abandoned c. 125-130 AD; about 2 ha, garrison up to 800 infantry, with a vicus of up to 2,000 people.

Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve

Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve (Biosférická rezervace Třeboňsko), designated 1977 in South Bohemia, Czechia; 70,000 ha of fishponds, peatlands, and forests; Europe's largest freshwater fish producer and a Ramsar wetland site.

Tredici Altari

Tredici Altari (santuario dei Tredici Altari), the Sanctuary of the Thirteen Altars at Lavinium, Pratica di Mare, Pomezia, Lazio: a row of thirteen red-painted tufa altars, 6th-4th century BCE, a federal sanctuary of the Latin League near the Heroon of Aeneas.

Tree That Owns Itself

The Tree That Owns Itself, also called the Jackson Oak, is a white oak in Athens, Georgia, said by legend to own itself and eight feet of surrounding land; the deed is unverified, and the current tree is a 1946 acorn successor.

Tremuli

Tremuli, a Roman road station in Mauretania Tingitana on the Antonine Itinerary route from Tingi (Tangier) to Volubilis, northern Morocco; its site is debated between Arbaoua and Oued Fouarat.

Trendle Ring

Trendle Ring, Bicknoller Hill, Somerset: a small Iron Age slight univallate hillfort (c.0.7 ha) on a steep Quantock spur, with a cross-ridge outwork, scheduled monument 1008249; distinct from The Trendle, Tavistock.

Trennfurt

Trennfurt (Kastell Trennfurt, ORL 37) is a Roman numerus fort of about 0.6 ha in Klingenberg am Main, Bavaria, on the younger Main line of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, with a 212 AD altar of a 22nd legion wood-cutting detachment.

Trent Park

Trent Park (Trent Country Park) is a Grade II registered landscape park and mansion estate at Cockfosters, Enfield, north London, formerly part of Enfield Chase, home of the Sassoon family, later a WWII interrogation centre, Middlesex University campus, and a 400-acre public country park.

Tres Arbores

Tres Arbores, a Roman mutatio (horse-change station) in Gallia Aquitania on the Itinerarium Burdigalense between Bazas and Eauze, 5 leugae from Vasatas; site debated between Maillas and Goualade.

Tres Tabernae (Italy)

Tres Tabernae (Latin, "Three Inns") was a Roman road station on the Via Appia near Cisterna di Latina, Italy, where Saint Paul was met by Christians.

Tres Zapotes

Tres Zapotes, Veracruz: Olmec and Epi-Olmec archaeological site on the western Olmec heartland margin; first colossal head found 1862, Stela C Long Count date 31 BC, apogee 400 BC–AD 300.

Trevi Fountain

The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is Rome's largest Baroque fountain, built 1732–1762 by Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini, terminal point of the ancient Aqua Virgo aqueduct, famous for the coin-toss legend, Fellini's La Dolce Vita, and its €2 visitor fee since February 2026.

Tri Nguyen Aquarium

Tri Nguyen Aquarium (Thủy cung Trí Nguyên, Tri Nguyen Fish Lake) is an aquarium on Hon Mieu Island, Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam, founded in 1971 by fisherman Le Can, with coral-walled sea ponds and a 1997 ship-shaped building.