HDLs can be synthesized into ASICs, so any open hardware implementations are important as they can be incorporated into real ICs.
Several commercial SPARC CPUs. Seems to be sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
Large collection of open source HDL by various contributors.
http://tams.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/research/vlsi/vhdl/
http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html
Small, but has a few source files and some links.