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...






















