Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Wall of Media

Wall of Media (Median Wall): ancient baked-brick defensive wall between Sippar and Opis in northern Babylonia, described by Xenophon in the Anabasis, built by Nebuchadnezzar II, identified with the ruins Ḥabl aṣ-Ṣaḫr near Baghdad.

Wallace Monument

The National Wallace Monument is a 220-foot Victorian Gothic tower on the Abbey Craig near Stirling, Scotland, built to commemorate Sir William Wallace and opened in 1869.

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower (Icheri Sheher, Qız qalası): UNESCO World Heritage site in Azerbaijan, inscribed 2000, criterion (iv), 21.5 ha, in Danger 2003–2009.

Walls of Timoleon

Walls of Timoleon, or Mura Timoleontee: Sicilian Greek city fortifications of the Timoleontic period after 344 BC, best preserved at Capo Soprano, Gela, a calcarenite and mud-brick circuit about 300 m long.

Walsrode Bird Park

Weltvogelpark Walsrode (Walsrode Bird Park), founded 1962 by Fritz Geschke in Lower Saxony, is the world's largest bird park: 24 ha, about 4,000 birds of 650 species, EAZA-accredited, known for first breedings and its 1968 walk-through Paradieshalle.

Walt Disney Studios Park

Walt Disney Studios Park, the second theme park at Disneyland Paris, opened March 16, 2002 and was renamed Disney Adventure World on March 29, 2026 with the opening of World of Frozen.

Walton Castle

Walton Castle, Felixstowe, Suffolk: a late 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort, later Hugh Bigod's castle and a candidate for Bede's Dommoc, lost to sea erosion by the 18th century; distinct from the Clevedon folly and Camboglanna.

Walton-on-the-Hill

Walton-on-the-Hill, a village in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, with a scheduled Roman villa on Sandlands Road: identified 1915, excavated 1939-40, rebuilt as a 44 m winged corridor house around AD 180, abandoned before AD 410.

Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp (United Kingdom)

Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp, Warden, Northumberland: a small square Roman marching camp, 75 m across and 0.5 ha, 230 m south west of Hadrian's Wall vallum near Milecastle 29; Scheduled Monument 1010935, at risk from plant growth and forestry.

Wanborough

Wanborough names two English villages with major Roman archaeology: Wanborough, Surrey, with a scheduled Romano-Celtic temple complex, unique priestly regalia and a looted 10,000-coin hoard, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, identified with the Roman small town Durocornovium.

Wandel

Wandel, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: site of a Roman trapezoidal fortlet (33.2 x 31.4 m, excavated 1966) and a Flavian-period temporary marching camp of about 14.7 ha, both beside a Roman road; scheduled monument SM2835.

Wando Archipelago Biosphere Reserve

Wando Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (완도 생물권보전지역), Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea; UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 15 September 2021, Korea's ninth; 403,899 ha, about 90% marine, 265 islands, 50,000 residents.

Wang Pla

Wang Pla (วังปลา) is Thailand's Department of Fisheries freshwater aquarium at Bang Sai, Ayutthaya, built in 1992 for Queen Sirikit's 60th birthday, with 1,400-ton and 600-ton tanks; distinct from temple fish pools and other Thai sites of the same name.

Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark

Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark (王屋山-黛眉山世界地质公园) is a 986 km² geopark in Henan Province, China, designated in 2006 around Wangwu Mountain, Daimei Mountain, and the Yellow River Valley.

Wangxiangu Scenic Area

Wangxiangu Scenic Area (望仙谷, Wangxian Valley) is a 4A-level scenic area in Shangrao, Jiangxi, China, built on a former granite mining site at Lingshan Mountain.

Wansdyke (earthwork)

Wansdyke (Wodnes dic, Woden's Dyke) is a major linear earthwork in Wiltshire and Somerset, in East and West stretches, of contested late Roman to Middle Saxon date, long linked to the Wessex-Mercia frontier.

War Memorial (The Response)

War Memorial (The Response), Grade I listed 1923 bronze-and-granite memorial by Sir W. Goscombe John at Barras Bridge, Newcastle, commemorating the Northumberland Fusiliers' Commercials battalions; distinct from Canada's Ottawa National War Memorial of the same name.

Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi

Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi is a fully indoor theme park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, opened in 2018 with 29 rides across six lands, developed by Miral.

Warner Bros. Movie World

Warner Bros. Movie World, also called Movie World, is a Village Roadshow movie-themed theme park at Oxenford on the Gold Coast, Australia, opened June 1991, home of the DC Rivals HyperCoaster and a Wizard of Oz precinct.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter (ワーナーブラザーススタジオツアー東京) is a walk-through Harry Potter film-set attraction in Nerima, Tokyo, opened June 16, 2023 on the former Toshimaen site; the largest indoor Harry Potter attraction and first Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Asia, with a Tokyo-exclusive Ministry of Magic set.

Warrumbungle National Park

Warrumbungle National Park, near Coonabarabran NSW, is Australia's first Dark Sky Park (2016), a 23,312-hectare eroded shield volcano with the Breadknife, National Heritage listed 2006, burnt by the 2013 bushfire.

Washing Wells Roman Fort

Washing Wells Roman Fort, also called Washingwells Roman fort, Whickham, is an unexcavated Roman fort in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, known only from 1970 cropmarks, with three ditch systems and probable Stanegate frontier associations.

Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Washington Cemetery (Meretz Cemetery), 5400 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn: a Jewish burial ground founded 1853 by James Arlington Bennet, consecrated 1857, with about 200,000 burials; first NYC cemetery to sell out, in 2008, serving mainly Russian Jewish immigrants.

Washington Monument

Washington Monument: 555-foot marble obelisk on the National Mall honoring George Washington; designed by Robert Mills, built 1848-1884 by the Washington National Monument Society and Army Corps of Engineers; world's tallest building in 1884.

Washington Square Arch

The Washington Square Arch is a 73-foot-6-inch Tuckahoe marble triumphal arch by Stanford White at Fifth Avenue's southern end in Washington Square Park, New York, dedicated May 4, 1895, honoring George Washington's 1789 inauguration.

Washington State Park System

Washington State Park System: recreation and heritage areas run by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, created 1913; 122,000 acres, over 40 million annual visitors, Discover Pass access, camping limits, and a $135.6 million 2025-27 capital program.

Wasur National Park

Wasur National Park (Taman Nasional Wasur), a 413,810-hectare Ramsar wetland and savanna park in Merauke, South Papua, Indonesia, near the PNG border, home to the Marind Imbuti, Kanume, Marori Men Gey, and Yeinan indigenous tribes.

Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat

Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan (วัดพระมหาธาตุวรมหาวิหาร), a Theravada Buddhist monastery in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, founded in the 8th century; inscribed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2026 under criteria (ii)(vi), Thailand's ninth World Heritage property.

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Wat Phra Si Sanphet

Wat Phra Si Sanphet (วัดพระศรีสรรเพชญ์) was the royal temple of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Thailand, built in 1448 and destroyed by the Burmese in 1767.