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Goryōkaku
Goryōkaku (五稜郭) is a star fort in Hakodate, Hokkaido, completed in 1864, and the final stronghold of shogunate forces in the Battle of Hakodate in 1869.
Göta Canal
Göta kanal: 190 km Swedish canal waterway from Sjötorp on Lake Vänern to Mem near the Baltic, 58 locks, built 1810–1832 by Baltzar von Platen with Thomas Telford; now a state-owned tourist waterway.
Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture, also called Opus Francigenum, is a European building style that emerged in northern France in the 12th century, defined by pointed arches and flying buttresses.
Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival architecture, also called Neo-Gothic or Victorian Gothic, revives medieval Gothic forms like pointed arches; it flourished in 18th- and 19th-century Britain and beyond.
Gotthard Road Tunnel
The Gotthard Road Tunnel (German: Gotthard-Strassentunnel) is a 16.9-kilometer single-tube motorway tunnel in Switzerland carrying the A2 beneath the Gotthard Pass between Göschenen and Airolo. Opened in 1980, it was the world's longest road tunnel.
Gotthard Road Tunnel fire (2001)
The Gotthard Road Tunnel fire was a collision and blaze on 24 October 2001 in Switzerland's 17-kilometer Gotthard tunnel, killing 11 people and reshaping tunnel safety policy.
Gotthard Road Tunnel fire and structural damage
The Gotthard Road Tunnel fire was a 2001 HGV collision and fire in Switzerland's transalpine road tunnel that killed 11 people and closed the tunnel for two months.
Gotthard Tunnel
The Gotthard Tunnel is a Swiss railway tunnel through the Alps: the 15 km summit tunnel opened in 1882, joined by the 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2016.
Göttweig Abbey
Göttweig Abbey, or Stift Göttweig, is a Benedictine monastery on the Göttweig Hill south of Krems in Lower Austria, founded in 1083 by Bishop Altmann of Passau.
Government-General of Chōsen Building
The Government-General of Chōsen Building (조선총독부 청사) was Japan's colonial headquarters for Korea, built inside Gyeongbokgung in Seoul from 1916 and demolished between 1995 and 1996.
Graceland
Graceland is the Memphis, Tennessee estate of Elvis Presley, a 1939 mansion bought by Presley in 1957, opened to the public in 1982, and a National Historic Landmark since 2006.
Grade I listed building
A Grade I listed building is a building or structure in England or Wales judged of exceptional interest, the highest of three grades, held by about 2.5% of England's listed buildings.
Grade II listed building
A Grade II listed building is a building in England or Wales of special architectural or historic interest, protected at the lowest of the three listing grades.
Grade II* listed building
A Grade II listed building is one in England or Wales defined as particularly important of more than special interest, covering about 5.8% of listed buildings.
Grade-separated pedestrian crossing
A grade-separated pedestrian crossing is an overpass, footbridge, or underpass that carries pedestrians over a roadway or railway, eliminating conflicts with motor traffic without stopping vehicles.
Gradually varied flow
Gradually varied flow (GVF) is steady, non-uniform open-channel flow in which water depth changes slowly with distance, keeping pressure hydrostatic, as in backwater behind a dam.
Graha Merah Putih
Graha Merah Putih, Indonesian for "Red and White Building", is the name of two Telkom Indonesia office buildings: the head office tower in South Jakarta and a former headquarters in Bandung.
Grain elevator
A grain elevator, also called a grain terminal, is a facility that receives, stores, weighs, and distributes grain, named for the tall tower structure that stores it.
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı) is a historic covered market in Istanbul, founded in 1461 by Sultan Mehmed II and one of the world's largest covered marketplaces.
Grand Bridge
Grand Bridge (Vanburgh Bridge) is Sir John Vanbrugh's unfinished c.1706-1712 Grade I listed habitable limestone bridge at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, spanning the River Glyme and Capability Brown's lake, with over 30 rooms and a 30 m central arch.
Grand Canal builders of China
The Grand Canal builders of China were the conscripted laborers and officials who dug and ran the world's largest pre-industrial canal, from the fifth century BC to the Qing.
Grand Canyon Skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a horseshoe-shaped, glass-bottomed cantilever bridge at Eagle Point in Grand Canyon West on Hualapai tribal land in Arizona, opened in 2007 and managed by the Hualapai Tribe.
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete dam on the Columbia River in central Washington, the largest hydropower producer in the United States at more than 6,809 megawatts.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), also called the Millennium Dam, is a hydropower dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, inaugurated in 2025 as Africa's largest hydroelectric facility.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute is the unresolved disagreement among Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over filling and operating Ethiopia's dam on the Blue Nile, built starting in 2011.
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is a five-star luxury hotel in Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy, opened as a hotel in 1873 and owned by the Bucher family since 1918.
Grand Inga Dam
The Grand Inga Dam is a proposed hydropower complex at Inga Falls on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, planned at about 39,000 MW.
Grand Kremlin Palace (Большой Кремлёвский дворец)
The Grand Kremlin Palace, also known as the Great Kremlin Palace, is a 19th-century imperial palace in the Moscow Kremlin, built 1838–1850 under Emperor Nicholas I and now the Russian president's residence.
Grand Mosque of Kuwait
The Grand Mosque of Kuwait (المسجد الكبير), also called the Kuwait State Mosque, is the largest and official state mosque of Kuwait, inaugurated in 1986 in Kuwait City.
Grand Palace (พระบรมมหาราชวัง)
The Grand Palace is a complex of royal buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, begun in 1782 by King Rama I as the residence of the Chakri dynasty kings.