Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens • London

Originally a hunting ground for kings and aristocrats, now a favorite of locals, Hyde Park is one of London’s largest Royal Parks, ranging across...

Borough Market • South Bank, London

Sometimes called “London’s Larder,” the Borough Market has been located in this same spot since the 13th century. This ever-popular spot is always packed with...

Kew Gardens • Richmond

The 132-hectare Kew Gardens are the finest product of British botanists, and are not only a research center, but also a public garden. Enter...

Victoria & Albert Museum • Kensington & Hyde Park

Opened in 1852, the V&A Museum was part of Price Albert’s endowment to the nation after the successful Great Exhibition in 1851, for the “improvement...

Natural History Museum • Kensington & Hyde Park

The Natural History Museum is a kids’ delight, with architecture right out of Hogwarts, but adults love it too. Richard Owen, the museum’s first...

London Eye • Bankside, London

London’s iconic riverside Ferris wheel has views from the top that extend in every direction for 25 miles (on a good day).  A “flight”...

The Shard • Southwark, London

The Shard, also known as the Shard of Glass and Shard London Bridge, is a 95-story super-tall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo...

Tate Modern • South Bank, London

Swiss architects Herzog and Meuron were awarded the prestigious Pritzker prize for their transformation of the Bankside Power Station into what is Londoners’ favorite...

Tower of London • London

In the Tower of London’s bloody history, it has been a palace, and observatory, an armory, a mint, and most notoriously, a prison and...

Churchill War Rooms • West End, Whitehall

With war seemingly imminent in August 1939, the British cabinet and armed forces chiefs moved underground to the basement below what is now the...