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Wildlife park "swan pond"
Wildlife park "swan pond" (Schwanenteich): small zoos and park ponds named for their swans, chiefly the volunteer-run Tiergehege Schwanenteich at Sinzig on the Ahr, rebuilt after the 2021 flood as Germany's first mobile wildlife park, plus Zwickau, Rosenau, Lincoln Park Zoo, and Oak Ridge sites.
Wildlife Park Eekholt
Wildlife Park Eekholt (Wildpark Eekholt), private wildlife park near Großenaspe, Schleswig-Holstein, founded 1970 by the Hatlapa couple; 67 ha, about 100 native species, 700+ animals, wolf information center, bird care station, EU-zoo certified.
Wilhelma
Wilhelma, the zoological-botanical garden of Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, is Germany's only combined zoo and botanical garden, founded as a Moorish-style royal park by King Wilhelm I, inaugurated 1846, a zoo since 1952, with 1,200 animal and 8,500 plant species.
Wilhelmsaue
Wilhelmsaue is the name of three related places in Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany: a street and green preserving old Wilmersdorf's village green, a Letschin village, and an ancient grave field.
Willandra Lakes Region (site)
The Willandra Lakes Region is a World Heritage protected area in far south-western New South Wales, Australia, preserving dry Pleistocene lakes and human remains about 40,000 years old.
William O'Brien State Park
William O'Brien State Park: Minnesota's first metro-area state park (est. 1947), on the St. Croix River near Marine on St. Croix; about 1,880 acres, 12 miles of trails, Lake Alice, and a 2025 accessibility project.
Wilpattu Ramsar Wetland Cluster
Wilpattu Ramsar Wetland Cluster (Ramsar Site no. 2095), Sri Lanka's sixth Ramsar site, designated 2 February 2013; 165,800 ha in North Western and North Central Provinces encompassing Wilpattu National Park, its villus, estuaries, and 21 endemic vertebrates.
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound (Ikara, "meeting place") is a 17 by 8 km natural amphitheatre of quartzite walls in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, within Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, with St Mary Peak at 1,166 m and Adnyamathanha co-management.
Wilson State Park (Kansas)
Wilson State Park, Kansas state park in Russell County on 9,000-acre Wilson Reservoir, established 1966; Hell Creek and Otoe camp areas, 24.5-mile Switchgrass bike trail, 8 cabins, striped bass fishing.
Wilsons Promontory
Wilsons Promontory ("the Prom") is a 50,000-hectare granite peninsula and national park at the southernmost tip of mainland Australia, Victoria's largest coastal wilderness, with about 600,000 annual visitors, Tidal River as its hub, and the Prom Sanctuary conservation project.
Wilsons Promontory National Park
Wilsons Promontory National Park ("the Prom"), Victoria's second national park (1905), occupies the southernmost tip of mainland Australia; granite peninsula with Tidal River hub, UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1981, and the 50,000 ha Prom Sanctuary project.
Wimbledon Common
Wimbledon Common, part of Wimbledon and Putney Commons (1,140 acres), is a London common governed by the 1871 Act, designated SSSI and SAC for heathland and stag beetle, managed by Conservators funded by a local levy.
Wincobank hill fort
Wincobank hill fort: Iron Age slight univallate hillfort, c. 1.1 ha, on a sandstone hill in northeast Sheffield overlooking the Don valley; scheduled 1927; 1899 Howarth excavation; Roman Ridge earthwork nearby.
Wind Cave
Wind Cave is a large limestone cave in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, known for boxwork found there more abundantly than in all other caves combined.
Wind Cave bison herd
Wind Cave bison herd: American bison herd in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, founded 1913 with 14 Bronx Zoo bison plus 6 Yellowstone bison in 1916; about 350-450 animals, among the most genetically diverse US conservation herds.
Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park, in South Dakota's southern Black Hills, established January 9, 1903 as the world's first cave national park, protects a 167-mile maze cave famed for holding more boxwork calcite formation than all other caves combined.
Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill, a hill north-west of Avebury in Wiltshire, England, is topped by the largest known Neolithic causewayed enclosure in Britain, which gave its name to the Windmill Hill culture.
Window of the World (世界之窗)
Window of the World (世界之窗) is a 480,000-square-meter replica theme park in Nanshan, Shenzhen, opened June 18, 1994 and owned by OCT Group, with about 130 landmark miniatures including a 108-meter Eiffel Tower, nightly drone shows, and nearly 100 million visitors over 30 years.
Window of the World (长沙世界之窗)
Window of the World (长沙世界之窗) is a 4A theme park in Changsha's Kaifu District, opened October 16, 1997, with 120 world landmark replicas, thrill rides, and Hunan TV filming, distinct from Shenzhen's 1994 park.
Window on World
Window on World Theme Park (小人國主題樂園, formerly Window on China Theme Park) is a miniature-landscape and family amusement park in Longtan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, opened July 7, 1984 by Chu Chung-hung, with 133 hand-built 1:25-scale landmarks and over twenty rides.
Windsor Great Park
Windsor Great Park: 1,942-hectare (4,800-acre) royal park near Windsor Castle, Berkshire, owned by the Crown Estate; features the Long Walk, Virginia Water, Savill Garden; Grade I registered; Ranger is King Charles III since 2022.
Wingham
Wingham is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England, roughly halfway between Canterbury and Sandwich, and the site of a scheduled Roman villa.
Winterton
Winterton Roman Villa, North Lincolnshire, England; also Winterton village site; large Romano-British villa compound with Orpheus mosaic, hypocaust, excavated 1958-1967 by the Ministry of Public Building and Works under threat of opencast ironstone mining.
Wiston fort
Wiston fort (Wiston Roman Fort) is a Roman auxiliary fort near Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 190m by 160m with triple ditches. Identified by LiDAR in 2012, excavated 2013-2014; occupied c. AD 74-100, the most westerly Roman fort known in Wales.
Witch's Valley
Witch's Valley (魔女の谷, also rendered Valley of Witches) is a themed area of Ghibli Park in Nagakute, Japan, inspired by the studio's witch films, including Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle.
Wiveliscombe Auxiliary Fort
Wiveliscombe Auxiliary Fort: small Roman fort at Nunnington Park, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England; mid 1st-century (Julio-Claudian) earthwork, excavated by G. Webster in 1956, scheduled monument, magnetometer-surveyed in 2023.
Wolf outdoor enclosure
Wolf outdoor enclosure: fenced zoo habitat for gray wolves (Canis lupus), built for digging, running, and pack behavior; features buried anti-escape barriers, enrichment programs, and EAZA or statutory design standards.
Wollemi National Park
Wollemi National Park: 488,620-hectare NSW national park northwest of Sydney, second largest in the state, part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and sole home of the critically endangered Wollemi pine.
Wolmi Theme Park
Wolmi Theme Park (월미테마파크), also My Land, is an amusement park on Wolmido Island, Incheon, South Korea; opened 1992, reopened 2009, with a 115 m Ferris wheel, 70 m drop tower, and two-story Viking.
Wolong Biosphere Reserve
Wolong Biosphere Reserve (卧龙自然保护区), Sichuan, China: 200,000-hectare panda reserve established 1963, UNESCO biosphere since 1979, World Heritage core area 2006, with CCRCGP captive breeding and about 10% of wild pandas.