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Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Ben Ezra Synagogue, also known as the El-Geniza Synagogue, is Egypt's oldest synagogue, in Old Cairo, and the principal source of the Cairo Geniza.
Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway
The Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway, also called the Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada Economic Corridor or BKV Expressway, is a six-lane access-controlled highway under construction linking Bengaluru in Karnataka with Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
Benin City earthworks
The Walls of Benin, known in Edo as iya, are a vast network of earthen banks and ditches around Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria.
Bennerley Viaduct
Bennerley Viaduct, also known as Ilkeston Viaduct, is a Grade II listed wrought-iron railway viaduct spanning the Erewash valley between Awsworth and Ilkeston. Completed in 1877, it reopened as a foot and cycle bridge in 2022.
Beomeosa
Beomeosa (범어사; 梵魚寺) is a Korean Buddhist temple on Geumjeongsan in Busan, South Korea, founded in 678 by master Uisang as one of ten Hwaeom temples.
Berghof (residence)
The Berghof, also known as Haus Wachenfeld, was Adolf Hitler's residence at Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden; its ruins were blown up in 1952.
Bering Strait crossing
The Bering Strait crossing, also called the Intercontinental Peace Bridge, is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel linking Russia's Chukotka Peninsula with Alaska's Seward Peninsula, proposed since the late 1800s and never built.
Berlin Cathedral
Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) is the main Protestant church of Berlin, built between 1894 and 1905 on Museum Island and housing the Hohenzollern burial crypt.
Berlin Palace
The Berlin Palace, also called the Berlin City Palace (Berliner Stadtschloss), was the Hohenzollern rulers' residence in central Berlin from 1451, demolished in 1950 and rebuilt by 2020.
Berliner Wasserbetriebe
Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) is the integrated drinking water and wastewater utility of Berlin, Germany, wholly owned by the Land Berlin and Germany's largest water provider since reunification.
Berm
A berm is a nearly horizontal step or ledge in the sloping profile of an embankment, cut slope, or beach, or a soil prism placed against a levee.
Bernard J. S. Cahill
Bernard J. S. Cahill (1866–1944) was a London-born American architect and cartographer who designed San Francisco cemetery buildings and invented the octahedral Butterfly Map, published in 1909.
Bertha (tunnel boring machine)
Bertha was an Earth Pressure Balance tunnel boring machine built by Hitachi Zosen to excavate the State Route 99 tunnel replacing Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct, finishing in 2017.
Beuron Archabbey
Beuron Archabbey, or Erzabtei St. Martin zu Beuron, is a Benedictine monastery in the upper Danube valley in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, refounded in 1863 by the brothers Maurus and Placidus Wolter.
Beylerbeyi Palace
Beylerbeyi Palace (Beylerbeyi Sarayı) is a former Ottoman summer palace on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, built between 1861 and 1865 for Sultan Abdülaziz.
Beyond Towers
Beyond Towers is an urban planning approach that treats four- to eight-storey mid-rise buildings and perimeter blocks as the primary means of achieving urban density instead of high-rise towers.
Bhakra Dam
Bhakra Dam (भाखड़ा बांध), also known as Bhakra Nangal Dam, is a 225.55 m high concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Bhandardara Dam
Bhandardara Dam (भंडारदरा धरण), also known as Wilson Dam, is a masonry gravity dam on the Pravara River in Maharashtra, India, completed in 1926 to impound Arthur Lake.
Bhangarh Fort (भानगढ़ दुर्ग)
Bhangarh Fort (भानगढ़ दुर्ग), also called Banghar Fort, is a ruined fort and township of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.
Bhavanisagar Reservoir
Bhavanisagar Reservoir (Tamil: பவானிசாகர் அணை), also called the Lower Bhavani Dam, is an earthen and masonry dam on the Bhavani River in Tamil Nadu, India, built 1948 to 1955.
Bhimashankar Temple (भीमाशंकर मंदिर)
Bhimashankar Temple (भीमाशंकर मंदिर), a Jyotirlinga shrine of Shiva in the Sahyadri hills of Pune district, Maharashtra, source of the Bhima River; Nagara-style, Peshwa-expanded temple renovated in 2026 ahead of the 2027 Nashik Kumbh Mela.
Bhojeshwar Temple
The Bhojeshwar Temple, also called Bhojpur Temple, is an unfinished 11th-century Shiva temple at Bhojpur, Madhya Pradesh, commissioned by King Bhoja of the Paramara dynasty.
Bhumibol Dam
Bhumibol Dam (เขื่อนภูมิพล), originally named Yanhee Dam, is a concrete arch dam on the Ping River in Tak Province, Thailand, completed in 1964 as the country's first multi-purpose dam.
Bibi Ka Maqbara (بیبی کا مقبرہ)
Bibi Ka Maqbara, known as the Taj of the Deccan, is a 17th-century Mughal mausoleum in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, built for Dilras Banu Begum, wife of Aurangzeb.
Bibi-Khanym Mosque
The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Bibixonim masjidi) is the congregational mosque of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, begun for Timur in 1399 and largely completed in 1404, among the largest monuments of Timurid architecture.
Bidaa Bint Saud
Bidaa Bint Saud is an archaeological site north of Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, with Bronze Age tombs, Iron Age graves, and ancient aflaj irrigation channels.
Bidet
A bidet is a plumbing fixture or toilet attachment that cleans the perineal and anal areas with a stream of water, invented in France in the early 18th century.
Bidet shower
A bidet shower, also known as the health faucet, bum gun, or Muslim shower, is a handheld trigger sprayer beside a toilet used for washing the anus and genitals.
Big Chute Marine Railway
The Big Chute Marine Railway is a boat lift on the Trent-Severn Waterway near Coldwater, Ontario, carrying vessels out of the water over a granite ridge.
Big Dig
The Big Dig, formally the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, was a Boston highway megaproject that replaced the elevated Central Artery with tunnels, running from 1991 to 2006 at a final cost near $14.6 billion.