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Kumbhalgarh
Kumbhalgarh, also known as Kumbhalgarh Fort, is a 15th-century hill fort in Rajasthan, India, built by the Mewar ruler Rana Kumbha between 1443 and 1458.
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun
The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, formerly Kumsusan Memorial Palace and Kim Il Sung Mausoleum, is a Pyongyang mausoleum holding the preserved bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Kurayashiki
Kurayashiki (蔵屋敷) were combined warehouses and residences that feudal domains used in Edo-period Japan (1603–1867) to store and sell tax rice, concentrated in Osaka, whose rice bills fed the Dojima Rice Exchange.
Kurenivka tragedy
The Kurenivka tragedy (Куренівська трагедія) was a 1961 disaster in Kyiv in which a dam burst at Babyn Yar, sending a wave of mud onto the Kurenivka district and killing hundreds.
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam is a 186 m concrete arch dam on the Kurobe River in Tateyama, Japan, built 1956 to 1963 and the tallest dam in Japan.
Kutila Mound
Kutila Mound (Kutila Mura, কুটিলা মুড়া) is a Buddhist stupa complex at Mainamati, Comilla, Bangladesh: three circular Tri-Ratna stupas with a Dharma-chakra-shaped central foundation, excavated 1955–1963.
Kwai Chung Hospital
Kwai Chung Hospital (葵涌医院) is Hong Kong's main public psychiatric hospital, established in Kwai Chung, New Territories, in 1981 and redeveloped through 2028 with capacity for 1,000 beds.
Kyaukse irrigation system
The Kyaukse irrigation system is a thousand-year-old network of dams, canals, and reservoirs south of Mandalay in Myanmar, fed by the Panlaung and Zawgyi rivers.
Kyiv Reservoir
The Kyiv Reservoir, locally the Kyiv Sea, is an artificial lake on the Dnipro River in northern Ukraine, created by the Kyiv Hydroelectric Station dam in 1964.
Kykuit
Kykuit (Dutch for "lookout") is the four-story Beaux-Arts Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, New York, built 1907–1913, a National Historic Landmark since 1976, now administered by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
L'Arc Macau
L'Arc Macau: hotel, casino and serviced-apartment complex in NAPE, Macau Peninsula, opened 21 September 2009 with 283 five-star rooms; SJM satellite casino taken over directly by SJM on 30 December 2025.
La Coupole
La Coupole is a giant Second World War bunker at Helfaut-Wizernes near Saint-Omer, France, built by Nazi Germany in 1943–1944 to launch V-2 rockets at London.
La Diga Nord
La Diga Nord is the Italian name for the northern breakwater of a harbor mouth, notably at Malamocco, Lido, Chioggia, and Ravenna (Cavalcoli, 2250 m), plus alpine dams.
La Diga Sud
La Diga Sud (Italian, "the south dam") names several paired structures: the Venice Lido, Chioggia, and Ravenna south breakwaters and alpine dams at Lago Bianco, Gabiet, and Fontana Bianca, with dates, lengths, and construction details.
La Jument
La Jument (Phare de la Jument) is an active French lighthouse built from 1904 to 1911 off Ouessant in the Iroise Sea, made famous by Jean Guichard's 1989 photograph of a keeper facing a giant wave.
La Madeleine, Paris
La Madeleine, formally the Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, is a Roman Catholic church in neoclassical temple form on the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842.
La Mancha Negra
La Mancha Negra (Spanish for "the black stain") was a dark, sticky substance that appeared on Caracas, Venezuela highways in 1986, resisted cleanup, and was never explained.
La Querida (mansion)
La Querida, also called Castillo del Mar or La Guerida, is a 1923 Addison Mizner Mediterranean Revival mansion at 1095 N. Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida; the Kennedy family's Winter White House, sold in 1995 and again in 2020 for $70 million.
La Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva
Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva: late Gothic Protestant church at Rue de la Madeleine 15, rebuilt from 1388 over a 5th-century memoria, site of Farel's 1535 French sermon, now the Swiss-German Reformed parish church.
Labrang Monastery
Labrang Monastery (拉卜楞寺) is a Tibetan Buddhist Gelug monastery in Xiahe County, Gansu, China, founded in 1709 and counted among the six most important Gelug monasteries.
Labyrinth spillway
A labyrinth spillway is an overflow weir folded into a zigzag or arced shape, giving roughly twice the discharge of a straight weir of the same width.
Lac de Serre-Ponçon
Lac de Serre-Ponçon is a large artificial reservoir in the French Alps, built by EDF between 1955 and 1961 and the largest artificial lake in France.
Ladybower Reservoir
Ladybower Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Peak District, Derbyshire, begun in 1935 and opened by King George VI in 1945 after the villages of Derwent and Ashopton were flooded.
Lærdal Tunnel
The Lærdal Tunnel (Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24,509-meter two-lane road tunnel on the E16 between Lærdal and Aurland, Norway, the longest road tunnel in the world, opened in 2000.
Lafayette Park, Detroit
Lafayette Park is a residential district in Detroit designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built from 1956 on the site of the razed Black Bottom neighborhood.
Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 700-kilometer federally funded expressway under construction in Nigeria from Lagos to Calabar, begun in March 2024 under President Bola Tinubu.
Lahore Fort
Lahore Fort, also known as Shahi Qila, is a Mughal-era citadel in Lahore, Pakistan, containing 21 monuments and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981.
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is a privately owned international engineering and construction company headquartered in Dartford, Kent, formed in 2001 when R O'Rourke & Son acquired John Laing's construction arm.
Lake Aldwell
Lake Aldwell was a reservoir on the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, filled in 1912 and drained in 2012 with the removal of the Elwha Dam.
Lake Almanor
Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in Plumas County, northeastern California, impounded on the North Fork Feather River and owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.