A fundamental result of toric geometry is that there is a bijection between toric varieties and fans. More generally, it is known that some class of manifolds having well-behaved torus actions, called topological toric manifolds M 2n , can be classified in terms of combinatorial data containing simplicial complexes with m vertices. We remark that topological toric manifolds are a generalization of smooth toric varieties. The number m − n is known as the Picard number when M 2n is a compact smooth toric variety.In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the topological toric manifolds over a simplicial complex K and those over the complex obtained by simplicial wedge operations from K. As applications, we do the following.(1) We classify smooth toric varieties of Picard number 3. This is a reproving of a result of Batyrev.(2) We give a new and complete proof of projectivity of smooth toric varieties of Picard number 3 originally proved by Kleinschmidt and Sturmfels.(3) We find a criterion for a toric variety over the join of boundaries of simplices to be projective. When the toric variety is smooth, it is known as a generalized Bott manifold which is always projective. (4) We classify and enumerate real topological toric manifolds when m−n = 3. In particular, when P is a polytope whose Gale diagram is a pentagon with assigned numbers (a1, a3, a5, a2, a4), then every real topological toric manifold over P is a real toric variety, and the number #DJ of them up to Davis-Januszkiewicz equivalence is #DJ = 2 a 1 +a 4 −1 + 2 a 2 +a 5 −1 + 2 a 3 +a 1 −1 + 2 a 4 +a 2 −1 + 2 a 5 +a 3 −1 − 5.When P is a polytope whose Gale diagram is a heptagon with arbitrary assigned numbers, no real topological toric manifold over P is a real toric variety, and we have #DJ = 2. (5) When m − n ≤ 3, any real topological toric manifold is realizable as fixed points of the conjugation of a topological toric manifold.