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Wolves and moose on Isle Royale
Wolves and moose on Isle Royale form a single-predator, single-prey system on an island in Lake Superior, studied continuously since 1958, the world's longest-running predator-prey study.
Wonastow
Wonastow Roman fort (Talocher Farm/Court Farm), Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales: a Flavian auxiliary fort near Monmouth found through cropmarks, 1966 field walking, and 2004-2006 excavations, on the Monmouth-Usk Roman road.
Wonder Land
Wonder Land (also written Wonderland) is the name of several unrelated amusement parks worldwide, most notably a family park in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, with about 25 rides.
Wonderla
Wonderla: India's largest amusement park chain, run by Wonderla Holidays Ltd (listed 2014). Five parks in Kochi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, and Chennai; founded as Veegaland, Kochi, in 2000 by Kochouseph Chittilappilly.
Wonderland Amusement Park (Iran)
Wonderland Amusement Park (شهربازی سرزمین عجایب) refers to indoor mall-based family entertainment centers in Iran, mainly at Tirazheh 1 mall in Tehran and Almas Shargh mall in Mashhad, offering rides, arcades, and bowling.
Wonderland Theme & Water Park
Wonderland Theme & Water Park, Dubai's first theme park (opened 1996), was an eight-hectare carnival-style venue with a water park in Al Garhoud. A 2008 Dh615 million Disney-style redevelopment was announced; the park closed in 2013.
Wonju Children's Traffic Park
원주어린이교통공원 (Wonju Children's Traffic Park) is a traffic-safety education park in Wonju, Gangwon, the first of its kind in the province, with miniature roads, signals, and crosswalks, now run under private outsourcing.
Wonju Hanji Theme Park
원주한지테마파크 (Wonju Hanji Theme Park) is a cultural complex in Wonju, Gangwon-do, opened September 2010, dedicated to hanji, traditional Korean mulberry-bark paper, with history exhibits, craft workshops, and the annual Wonju Hanji Festival.
Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area
Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area (원산갈마해안관광특별구), also called Wonsan-Kalma Beach Resort, is North Korea's largest beach resort on the Kalma Peninsula near Wonsan; opened July 1, 2025, capacity about 20,000, 54 hotels, later closed to foreign tourists.
Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park, straddling Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Established 1922, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, it holds the world's largest wood bison herd and the only whooping crane breeding habitat.
Woodchester
Woodchester Roman villa, Gloucestershire: a major Romano-British courtyard villa near Stroud with at least 64 rooms and the Orpheus mosaic, Britain's largest, buried and opened about seven times since 1880.
Woodcock Hall
Woodcock Hall: name of a Grade II listed c.1800 house at Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire (list entry 1164013) and of an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Saham Toney, Norfolk; a 17th-century Bamber Bridge farmhouse of the name was demolished in 1956.
Woodeaton
Woodeaton is a Romano-Celtic temple site on Middle Hill, about four miles north of Oxford, with occupation from the mid-first millennium BC to the Roman period.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska (Drewniane kościoły południowej Małopolski): UNESCO serial site, inscribed 2003, of six 15th–16th century wooden Gothic Catholic churches at Blizne, Binarowa, Dębno Podhalańskie, Haczów, Lipnica Murowana, and Sękowa, built in horizontal log technique.
Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
A serial UNESCO World Heritage property in Türkiye comprising five 13th- and 14th-century mosques known for their wooden columns, ceilings, and woodcarving, inscribed in 2023.
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2013) of 16 wooden Eastern Christian churches, tserkvas, in the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians, built of horizontal logs in the 16th-19th centuries by Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities in Hutsul, Halych, Boyko, and Lemko types.
Woodhenge
Woodhenge: Neolithic timber monument at Durrington, Wiltshire, near Stonehenge; six concentric ovals of posts within a bank and ditch, built about 2500 BC, solstice-aligned, found by aerial photography in 1925 and excavated by the Cunningtons.
Woodhouses Hill Fort
Woodhouses Hill Fort (Woodhouse hillfort), an Iron Age or Late Bronze Age univallate hillfort on the sandstone ridge at Frodsham, Cheshire; 1.52 ha interior, scheduled monument NHLE 1013297, Woodland Trust owned.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York: 400-acre non-sectarian cemetery founded 1863, over 310,000 interments, National Historic Landmark since 2011, notable burials include Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Farragut.
Woodmancote Roman villa
Woodmancote Roman villa (Ditches), North Cerney, Gloucestershire: a minor 1st-3rd century corridor villa with cellar built inside an Iron Age hillfort enclosure near Bagendon, scheduled as NHLE 1003448.
Wookey Hole Caves
Wookey Hole Caves: show cave and SSSI in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, on the River Axe. Also the birthplace of British cave diving (1935, Balcombe and Powell), with 3,659 m mapped, eight show chambers, and the Witch of Wookey stalagmite.
Woongjin Playdoci
Woongjin Playdoci (웅진플레이도시) is an indoor urban leisure theme park in Bucheon, South Korea, opened in 2009 with a water park, hot-spring spa, indoor ski slope, and golf driving range.
Works of Antoni Gaudí
Works of Antoni Gaudí (Obras de Antoni Gaudí): UNESCO serial World Heritage property of seven Gaudí buildings in and near Barcelona, inscribed 1984 and extended 2005 under criteria (i), (ii), (iv), dossier 320bis.
World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee is UNESCO's 21-state intergovernmental body under the 1972 World Heritage Convention; it inscribes World Heritage sites, monitors conservation, manages the World Heritage Fund, and meets annually (48th session: Busan, 2026).
World Heritage Convention
The World Heritage Convention, adopted by UNESCO in Paris on 16 November 1972, obliges each state party to protect cultural and natural heritage of outstanding value on its territory.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are cultural or natural properties of outstanding universal value inscribed by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee under the 1972 World Heritage Convention; 1,248 sites in 170 countries as of 2026, with a parallel List of World Heritage in Danger.
World Heritage Sites by country
World Heritage Sites by country: distribution of UNESCO World Heritage List properties among States Parties to the 1972 Convention; 1,273 sites in 173 of 196 countries, skewed toward Europe and North America.
World Park
World Park (世界公园, Beijing World Park) is a 46.7-hectare miniature-landmark theme park in Fengtai District, Beijing, opened October 25, 1993, with 1:10 scale replicas of world monuments; free entry since July 2026.
World Reptile Park
World Reptile Park (세계파충류공원, Segyepachungnyugongwon) is a reptile-specialist zoo in Neung-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, inside Seoul Children's Grand Park; opened March 27 as South Korea's first reptile park.
World War I memorials by country and region
World War I memorials by country and region surveys the monuments raised after 1918 in Australia, Canada, England, France, and the United States, with Germany as a contrast.