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Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்)
Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்), Mylapore, Chennai: a Dravidian Shiva temple with a 37-m gopuram, Pallava origins, 16th-century Portuguese destruction, Vijayanagar restoration, and a 4-acre rain-fed temple tank.
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені)
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені, also spelled Kapshagay) is a large reservoir on the Ili River in southeastern Kazakhstan, formed by a hydroelectric dam completed in 1970.
Kapellbrücke
The Kapellbrücke, or Chapel Bridge, is a 205-meter covered wooden footbridge crossing the Reuss River diagonally in Lucerne, Switzerland; dating to around 1365, it is Europe's oldest surviving wooden bridge.
Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster, also called the Kaprun funicular fire, was a tunnel fire on 11 November 2000 in Austria that killed 155 people and left 12 survivors.
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ)
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is an earth-fill hydroelectric dam on the Karnaphuli River in Bangladesh, built between 1957 and 1962; it created Kaptai Lake, the country's largest man-made lake, and remains Bangladesh's only hydroelectric power station.
Karakum Canal
The Karakum Canal (Russian: Каракумский канал) is a large irrigation canal in Turkmenistan carrying Amu Darya water across the Karakum Desert, built from 1954 to 1988.
Kariba Dam
Kariba Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, feeding two underground power stations with a combined capacity of 2,130 MW.
Karl-Marx-Hof
Karl-Marx-Hof is a municipal housing complex in Vienna's Heiligenstadt district, built between 1927 and 1930 to designs by Karl Ehn, and one of the largest Red Vienna estates.
Karlskirche
The Karlskirche is a Baroque votive church on Vienna's Karlsplatz, built 1716 to 1737 from Emperor Charles VI's vow during the 1713 plague, designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
Karlštejn Castle
Karlštejn Castle (Czech: hrad Karlštejn) is a large Gothic castle in Central Bohemia, southwest of Prague, founded in 1348 by Charles IV as a treasury for royal treasures and crown jewels.
Karni Mata Temple
The Karni Mata Temple, popularly called the rat temple, is a Hindu shrine at Deshnoke near Bikaner, Rajasthan, home to tens of thousands of sacred, worshipped rats.
Karolinska University Hospital
Karolinska University Hospital (Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is Region Stockholm's university hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2004 and one of Europe's largest, with about 16,500 employees across sites in Solna and Huddinge.
Kartavya Bhavan (कर्तव्य भवन)
Kartavya Bhavan (कर्तव्य भवन), known as the Common Central Secretariat, is a new government office complex in New Delhi, the first of ten buildings inaugurated by Narendra Modi in 2025.
Kasbah of Moulay Ismail
The Kasbah of Moulay Ismail (قصبة مولاي إسماعيل) is a fortified royal complex in Meknes, Morocco, built by Sultan Moulay Ismail, who made Meknes his capital.
Kashi Vishwanath Temple (काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर)
Kashi Vishwanath Temple (काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर) is a Hindu temple to Shiva on the western bank of the Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, enshrining one of the twelve jyotirlingas and rebuilt in 1780 by Ahilyabai Holkar.
Kate Orff
Kate Orff is an American landscape architect and founder of the New York firm SCAPE, known for Living Breakwaters off Staten Island and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Katse Dam
Katse Dam is a 185-meter-high concrete arch dam on the Malibamats'o River in Lesotho, the largest dam of Phase 1A of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Katsura Imperial Villa
Katsura Imperial Villa (桂離宮, Katsura Rikyu), a 17th-century imperial detached palace and stroll garden in Kyoto built by Princes Toshihito and Toshitada of the Hachijo-no-miya line, famed for sukiya architecture and modernist admirers.
Kedarnath Temple (केदारनाथ मंदिर)
Kedarnath Temple, also known as Kedarnath Dham, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at 3,581 meters in Uttarakhand, India, and one of the twelve Jyotirlingas.
Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is a grade I listed neoclassical country house near Quarndon in Derbyshire, England, built from 1758 for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, with interiors by Robert Adam.
Keep
A keep, also known as a donjon or great tower, is the main stone tower of a medieval castle, built from the 11th century onward as the lord's residence and last refuge.
Kehlsteinhaus
Kehlsteinhaus, known in English as the Eagle's Nest, is a chalet built in 1938 at 1,834 meters on the Kehlstein near Berchtesgaden as a tea house for Adolf Hitler.
Kemer bridge
Kemer bridge: a Roman segmental arch bridge over the Xanthos River near ancient Xanthos, Lycia, Turkey; surviving 29 m ramp with three arches, two with a one-meter rise; site at Atlıdere.
Kennedy Compound
The Kennedy Compound is a six-acre, three-house family estate on Irving and Marchant Avenues in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, begun by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in 1926-1928, listed on the National Register in 1972, and now partly owned by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile waterway in southern England linking the Thames at Reading with the Avon at Bath, completed in 1810 and restored by 2003.
Kenneth E. Stinson
Kenneth E. Stinson is an American civil engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led the Omaha construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. as chairman and CEO.
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal palace in Kensington Gardens, London, rebuilt by Christopher Wren for William III and Mary II in 1689, now home to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Kern Island Canal
The Kern Island Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California, diverting Kern River water south of Bakersfield to farmland on the former Kern Lake bed.
Kevin J. Krizek
Kevin J. Krizek is an American urban planner and transportation researcher, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for arguing that planning should target accessibility rather than mobility.
Kew Palace
Kew Palace is the oldest building within the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, a Grade I listed former summer home of King George III.