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Haji Ali Dargah (حاجی علی درگاہ)
Haji Ali Dargah is a Sufi shrine and mosque on an islet off Mumbai's Worli coast, built in 1431 over the tomb of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari.
Hakka walled village
The Hakka walled village, most famously the tulou (土楼), is a fortified multi-storey rammed-earth dwelling built by the Hakka people in south-eastern China to shelter entire clans.
Halfweg Pumping Station
Stoomgemaal Halfweg is a steam-driven pumping station in Halfweg, the Netherlands, built in 1852 by the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and now run as a steam-powered museum.
Hall of Mirrors
The Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces) is the principal gallery of the Palace of Versailles, a 73-meter hall built between 1678 and 1684 with 357 mirrors.
Halley Research Station
Halley Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey base on the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica, whose ozone measurements led to the 1985 ozone hole discovery.
Hallgrímskirkja
Hallgrímskirkja, named for the hymn poet Hallgrímur Pétursson, is a Lutheran parish church in Reykjavík and Iceland's largest church, built from 1945 to 1986 from designs by Guðjón Samúelsson.
Ham House
Ham House, Richmond upon Thames: Grade I listed 1610 Jacobean mansion built for Sir Thomas Vavasour, transformed by the Duchess of Lauderdale, National Trust since 1948, with 17th-century interiors and gardens.
Hameau de la Reine
The Hameau de la Reine, or Queen's Hamlet, is a rustic model village built for Marie-Antoinette by architect Richard Mique in the Petit Trianon park at Versailles, completed in 1786.
Hammersmith & City line
The Hammersmith & City line is a London Underground line running 25.5 km from Hammersmith to Barking, shown in pink on the Tube map since 1990.
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in southwest London, begun in 1514 for Cardinal Wolsey and rebuilt for Henry VIII and later William III.
Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel
The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel (HRBT), also called the Hampton Roads Tunnel, is a 3.5-mile bridge-tunnel crossing Hampton Roads harbor in Virginia on Interstate 64, opened in 1957.
Hampton Roads Sanitation District
The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) is a regional wastewater utility of Virginia, created by referendum in 1940 and serving 1.9 million people across 20 cities and counties.
Hangzhou Bay Bridge
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (杭州湾跨海大桥) is a 36 km six-lane cross-sea expressway bridge in eastern China linking Jiaxing and Ningbo, opened in 2008 as the world's longest cross-sea bridge.
Hansaviertel
The Hansaviertel is a residential district in Berlin's Tiergarten, rebuilt from 1955 to the early 1960s for the Interbau 1957 exhibition by more than 50 international architects.
Hanuman temple, Salangpur
The Kashtabhanjandev Hanuman temple in Salangpur, also spelled Sarangpur, is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Gujarat, India, dedicated to Hanuman as the crusher of sorrows.
Hapcheon Dam
Hapcheon Dam (합천댐), formally the Hapcheon Multi-purpose Dam, is a 96 m concrete gravity dam on the Hwang River in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, completed in 1988.
Harappan architecture
Harappan architecture, also known as Indus Valley Civilization architecture, is the Bronze Age building tradition of cities like Mohenjo-daro, with standardized bricks, cardinal-oriented streets, private wells, and covered drains.
Harbaqa Dam
The Harbaqa Dam (سد خربقة, also spelled Kharbaqa) is a large ancient gravity dam in the Syrian Desert that supplied the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi.
Harbor Point (Boston)
Harbor Point is a mixed-income residential community of 1,283 apartments on Columbia Point in Dorchester, Boston, built on the site of the failing Columbia Point public housing project.
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino was a rock-music-themed resort near the Las Vegas Strip, opened by Peter Morton in 1995 and rebranded as Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in 2021.
Hard Rock Las Vegas
Hard Rock Las Vegas names two rock-music-themed Las Vegas resorts: the original Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, open 1995 to 2020, and a Strip resort under construction.
Hard water
Hard water, also called water hardness, is water with high dissolved calcium and magnesium, picked up from soil and rock, which makes lathering harder and leaves scale in pipes.
Hardanger Bridge
The Hardanger Bridge (Hardangerbrua) is a suspension bridge on Norwegian National Road 13 across the Hardanger Fjord, opened in 2013 with the longest main span in Norway, 1,310 meters.
Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall is a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, and renowned for its huge windows and tapestries.
Hardy Cross method
The Hardy Cross method is an iterative technique for computing flows in closed-loop pipe networks, introduced in 1936 by Hardy Cross of the University of Illinois.
Harecastle Tunnel
Harecastle Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, made up of two parallel tunnels built by James Brindley and Thomas Telford.
Harewood House
Harewood House is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house near Leeds in West Yorkshire, built for Edwin Lascelles from 1759 to 1771 and still home to the Lascelles family.
Hargreaves equation
The Hargreaves equation, usually called the Hargreaves–Samani equation, is an empirical equation published by George Hargreaves and Zohrab Samani in 1985 that estimates grass reference evapotranspiration from temperature data alone.
Harihar fort
Harihar fort, also called Harshagad (हरिहरगड), is a hill fort in the Trimbakeshwar range of Nashik district, Maharashtra, India, known for a near-vertical rock-cut staircase of 117 steps, attributed to the Yadava dynasty.
Haringvliet Sluices
The Haringvliet Sluices (Haringvlietsluizen) are 17 discharge openings in the Haringvliet Dam, part of the Dutch Delta Works, built between 1956 and 1970 to discharge Rhine and Meuse water to the sea.