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Xiangshan Hiking Trail
Xiangshan, or Elephant Mountain, is a modest sandstone ridge at Taipei’s southeastern edge, with a wooded trail above the Xinyi district. Its rocky outcrops frame views of Taipei 101 and reveal the city against its surrounding hills.
Ximending
Ximending’s pedestrian streets are a stage for youth culture, with fashion shops, street performance, and pop-up events sharing the same public space. The district’s energy comes from its changing mix of commerce and self-expression.
Xinbeitou Historic Station
Xinbeitou Historic Station is a restored wooden railway station in Beitou, built to serve the district’s hot-spring visitors. Its return to Taipei after decades away reflects a local preservation campaign and keeps the history of the branch railway visible.
Yangmingshan National Park
Yangmingshan National Park brings volcanic landforms, upland grasslands, and mountain vegetation close to Taipei. Rather than a single viewpoint, it is a broad protected landscape whose changing terrain makes the city’s northern volcanic setting visible across multiple sites.
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium is the Bronx home of the New York Yankees and a place where sport, memory and neighbourhood identity meet. Monument Park gathers tributes to players and managers, turning the ballpark into a living archive of the team’s history.
Yaowarat Road
Yaowarat Road is the commercial spine of Bangkok’s Chinatown, where shopfronts, street food, temples, and traffic occupy a dense urban corridor. Its character shifts by time of day as wholesale trade and evening dining share the same street.
Yasaka Shrine
Yasaka Shrine stands at the meeting point of central Kyoto and the Higashiyama temple district. Its connection to the Gion Festival began in prayers against epidemic disease, and the shrine remains a focus of Kyoto’s ritual calendar.
Yedikule Fortress
Yedikule Fortress joined Byzantine land-wall towers with a new Ottoman fortification after Mehmed the Conqueror’s capture of Constantinople. Its seven-tower form later served as a prison, adding a sobering chapter to the monument’s defensive architecture.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese stands in Wine Office Court off Fleet Street, its frontage opening onto a pub whose present building dates from after the Great Fire. The dark rooms and low ceilings invite a slower look at a City drinking house shaped by centuries of rebuilding and daily use.
Yeouido Hangang Park
Yeouido Hangang Park lies on an island reshaped by river engineering and urban development. The open riverbank and paths invite recreation today, but the surrounding landscape carries a story of flood-prone sandbar, embankments, and planned transformation.
Yim Tin Tsai (Sai Kung)
Yim Tin Tsai is a small island village in Sai Kung whose history is tied to salt making, fishing, and Hakka culture. Restored salt pans and village sites help explain how residents shaped their livelihoods around the island’s coastal landscape.
Yivli Minare Mosque
The fluted red-brick minaret rises above Kaleiçi as one of Antalya’s most recognizable silhouettes. Its distinctive grooves explain its name, while the surrounding complex shows that the landmark belonged to a broader Seljuk religious and civic center.
Yıldız Palace
Yıldız Palace spreads across a wooded rise between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy. Rather than one monumental block, it is a landscape of administrative buildings, private quarters, pavilions, gardens, and workshops associated above all with Abdülhamid II.
Yıldız Park
Yıldız Park was once the outer garden of an Ottoman palace complex, reserved for the court and now open as a public landscape. Its surviving pavilions hint at a broader world of gardens, residences, and government arranged on high ground above the Bosphorus.
Yoyogi Park
Yoyogi Park’s broad lawns and wooded paths occupy land that has passed through military, occupation-era, Olympic, and public uses. The site’s transformation into a park after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics makes its greenery part of a larger story of urban change.
Yuanshan Water Shrine
Yuanshan Water Shrine preserves a small colonial-era shrine beside Taipei’s historic water infrastructure. Stone lanterns, a name stele, washing basin, and guardian figures connect a religious landscape with the engineering that supplied a growing city.
Zabeel Park
Zabeel Park’s broad paths and lawns sit beside one of Dubai’s most legible pieces of urban symbolism: the Dubai Frame. The park connects everyday public recreation with a landmark built to place the emirate’s past and present in one view.
Žanis Lipke Memorial
The Žanis Lipke Memorial on Ķīpsala tells the story of a family and network who hid Jewish people during the Holocaust. Its dark timber building stands beside the Lipke home, near the site of an underground wartime shelter.
Zeyrek Çinili Hamam
Zeyrek Çinili Hamam was designed by Mimar Sinan for Ottoman admiral Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha. Restoration revealed tile fragments and archaeological objects, now interpreted alongside the bath’s domed rooms and history of water.
Ziedoņdārzs Park
Ziedoņdārzs is a neighbourhood garden created among Riga’s residential blocks in the 1930s. Its linden avenue, flowerbeds and frog fountain reflect landscape architect Andrejs Zeidaks’s vision of green space for everyday city life.
Ziemeļblāzma Culture Palace
Ziemeļblāzma Culture Palace in Vecmīlgrāvis grew from a community’s commitment to education, art and temperance. Built after its predecessor was burned in 1906, the 1913 building and surrounding park continue to host cultural life.
Zojoji Temple
Zōjō-ji’s main gate, rebuilt halls, and Tokugawa mausoleums mark a major Pure Land Buddhist center beside modern Tokyo Tower. Founded in 1393 and moved to this site in 1598, the temple’s changing fortunes mirror the shift from Edo shogunal power to the modern city.
Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts
The Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts is in Eatonville, just north of Orlando, in the historic town where Hurston grew up. The community museum honors the writer and folklorist while exhibiting artists of African ancestry from the United States and the wider diaspora.
Zuzeum Art Museum
Zuzeum is a Riga art museum and home of the Zuzāns collection. Its exhibitions and public spaces occupy a converted former cork factory on Lāčplēša Street, linking an industrial building with changing presentations of Latvian and international art.