Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Worlebury Camp

Worlebury Camp is a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, above Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England, overlooking the Bristol Channel and scheduled since 1915.

Wormsloe Historic Site (Wormsloe State Historic Site) is an 822-acre Georgia state park on the Isle of Hope near Savannah, preserving Noble Jones's 1736 colonial estate, its tabby fort ruins, live oak avenue, and the oldest continuously owned family estate in Georgia.

Wörth

Kastell Wörth (Numeruskastell Wörth, Castra of Wörth): Roman numerus fort on the Main Limes at Wörth am Main, Bavaria; 0.8 ha stone fort, about 160-man garrison, fort bath, vicus, likely Roman ship dock, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005.

Wortley Roman villa

Wortley Roman villa, a second-century Romano-British site in South Gloucestershire, discovered 1981 and excavated by Keele University 1983–1996; notable for an underground cult-room cellar and a rural bathhouse with a 13.7 m swimming pool.

Woye Garrison Old City

沃野镇故城 (Woye Zhen gucheng), ruins of the westernmost of Northern Wei's Six Garrisons, at Genzichang village, Urad Front Banner, Inner Mongolia. Discovered 1987; national protected site 2006; birthplace of the 523 Six Garrisons uprising.

Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska: largest US national park at 13.2 million acres, established 1980 under ANILCA, over 3,000 glaciers, part of the Kluane/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek World Heritage Site.

Wrekin Hill Fort

Wrekin Hill Fort: Iron Age multivallate and univallate hillfort on The Wrekin, Shropshire, probably the Cornovii capital, occupied from the Late Bronze Age until possible Roman destruction around AD 48-50.

Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field, also Weeghman Park and Cubs Park, is the Chicago Cubs' ballpark since 1916, built 1914, second-oldest MLB park after Fenway, with 1937 ivy and hand-turned scoreboard, 1988 lights, and the $575M 1060 Project.

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Áísínai’pi) is a UNESCO World Heritage sacred landscape in Alberta's Milk River Valley, with thousands of Blackfoot petroglyphs and pictographs at over 138 sites, inscribed in 2019 under criterion (iii).

Wrocław Jewish Cemetery (Białystokers and others)

The Wrocław Jewish Cemetery on Ślężna Street is a 19th-century Jewish burial ground used from 1856 to 1942, now preserved as the Museum of Cemetery Art with about 12,000 tombstones.

Wrocław-Zakrzów

Wrocław-Zakrzów is a district in northeastern Wrocław, Poland, best known for three richly furnished Roman-period Przeworsk-culture princely graves discovered in 1886–1887 and excavated by Wilhelm Grempler.

Wudalianchi Biosphere Reserve

Wudalianchi Biosphere Reserve (五大连池), Heilongjiang, China: UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2003, 106,000 ha, protecting an intracontinental monogenetic volcanic field of 14 cones, 1719–1721 eruptions, five lava-dammed lakes, and cold mineral springs.

Wugongshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Wugongshan UNESCO Global Geopark (武功山), designated March 2024 in western Jiangxi, China, spans 1,470.82 km2 around a Mesozoic granite dome with alpine meadows, granite peak forests, waterfalls, and a hot springs chain.

Wuhai Botanical Garden

Wuhai Botanical Garden (乌海植物园) is a 140-hectare 2A-rated open urban garden in northern Haibowan District, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, converted from the city nursery, opened in 2004, with 38 tree species, 300,000 trees, and 11 scenic zones.

Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS (中国科学院武汉植物园), a research-oriented botanical garden founded 1956 and established 1958 in Wuhan; one of China's three core CAS botanical gardens, with 13,000+ species, world-leading kiwifruit and aquatic plant collections, and the Sino-African Joint Research Center.

Wuhan Happy Valley

Wuhan Happy Valley (武汉欢乐谷) is OCT Group's fifth Happy Valley theme park, opened April 29, 2012 at East Lake Scenic Area, Wuhan; a Class-4A park with Dueling Dragon, Dancing Phoenix, and Extreme Rusher coasters.

Wuhan Zoo

Wuhan Zoo (武汉动物园), a comprehensive municipal zoo on Moshui Lake in Hanyang District, Wuhan, China; 67 hectares, once ranked among China's eight major zoos (1987), reopened September 28, 2023 after renovation with 1,100+ animals of 138 species and pandas Wulin and Mengmeng.

Wular Lake Mound

Wular Lake Mound is the Archaeological Survey of India designation for fifteenth-century mosque and tomb ruins on an artificial island in Wular Lake, Jammu and Kashmir.

Würzberg

Würzberg is a village in the town of Michelstadt in the Odenwald, Hesse, Germany, known for the Roman fort Kastell Würzberg and its preserved bathhouse, the Römerbad.

Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

Würzburg Residence (Würzburger Residenz), Baroque prince-bishops' palace in Würzburg, Bavaria, built 1720-1744 under Balthasar Neumann with Tiepolo's world-largest staircase fresco; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, rebuilt after 1945 firebombing until 1987.

Wutai Shan Buddhist Garden (加国五台)

Wutai Shan Buddhist Garden (加國五台山) is a Chinese Buddhist temple complex in Cavan-Monaghan, Ontario, the first of Cham Shan Temple's Four Sacred Buddhist Gardens in Canada, replicating Mount Wutai with Tang-style dougong timber halls and five Manjusri statues.

Wuzhen West Scenic Zone

Wuzhen West Scenic Zone (西栅, Xizha), the larger ticketed half of Wuzhen water town in Tongxiang, Zhejiang; rebuilt wholesale from 1999, reopened 2006/2007, known for night lantern scenery, Mu Xin Art Museum, and the Wuzhen Model.

Wymondley Roman Villa

Wymondley Roman Villa, a scheduled Romano-British villa site by Gipsy Lane/Purwell in Wymondley parish, North Hertfordshire, partially excavated in 1882; a second villa site at Little Wymondley was excavated in 1991 and 2001.

Wynn Macau

Wynn Macau (永利澳門), luxury integrated casino resort on the Macau peninsula, opened 6 September 2006 as Macau's first Las Vegas-style casino resort; Encore tower added 2010; only resort worldwide with eight Forbes Five-Star awards; operated by HKEX-listed Wynn Macau, Limited.

Wyperfeld National Park

Wyperfeld National Park, in semi-arid north-west Victoria, is Australia's first mallee national park (reserved 1909, permanent 1921), 357,017 ha, third-largest in Victoria, with Outlet Creek lake beds and Wotjobaluk co-management.

X7 Barracks

X7 Barracks, Dura-Europos: Roman military barracks in Block X7, Syria, reworked from private houses X7-A and X7-B around a temple, part of the garrison base occupying a quarter of the city until the Sasanian sack c. AD 256.

Xardín Botánico de Lourizán

Xardín Botánico de Lourizán (Botanical Garden of Lourizán), a 52-hectare botanical garden and arboretum in Pontevedra, Galicia, founded 1949 within the Lourizán Forest Research Center, holding over 850 taxa and notable trees listed in the Catálogo Galego de Árbores Senlleiras.

Xcaret

Xcaret (ancient Polé) is a Maya archaeological zone 7 km south of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, inside Xcaret Park; a Postclassic trading port and pilgrimage embarkation point for Cozumel, run by INAH.

Xelha

Xelha (Xelhá, Xel-Há) is a Maya archaeological site and ancient maritime port in Tulum municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico, tied to Cobá in the Early Classic and a major Late Postclassic trade port, known for the Building of the Birds murals; distinct from the Xel-Há water park.