Golden Gate Park most-visited city park in the United States after Central Park in New York City, Lincoln Park in Chicago, and Balboa and Mission Bay Parks in San Diego. In the 1860s, San Franciscans began to feel the need for a spacious public park similar to Central Park, which was then taking shape in New York City. Golden Gate Park was carved out of unpromising sand and shore dunes that were known as the Outside Lands, in an unincorporated area west of San Francisco's then-current borders. Conceived ostensibly for recreation, the underlying purpose of the park was housing development and the westward
Beijing World Park World Park dancers, or they may be performed by troupes representing their local cultures. In 2005 the Park even hosted a Thai elephant that performed four times a day from May to October. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, it was selected as one of the three protest zones. "The World" is a 2004 film directed by Jia Zhangke, which was made at Beijing World Park and focused on the lives of some fictional park employees. The Beijing Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum is located southeast from the south entrance of the World Park. The mausoleum hosts the 2,000-year-old tombs of