Sights & Attractions in London

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Name Category Location
 
Golden Hinde.
Famed Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the...
Nautical Sites The South Bank
 
Apsley House (Wellington Museum)
The mansion built by Robert Adam and presented to the Duke of...
Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Banqueting House
James I commissioned Inigo Jones, one of England's great architects...
Castles / Palaces Westminster and Royal London
 
Bevis Marks Synagogue
This is Britain's oldest synagogue still in use and certainly...
Religious Sites East End
 
Bond Street
This world-class shopping haunt is divided into northern "New"...
Neighborhoods / Streets St. James's and Mayfair
 
British Library
This collection of around 18 million volumes, formerly in the...
Libraries Bloomsbury and Holborn
 
British Museum
With a facade like a great temple, this celebrated treasure house...
Museums / Galleries Bloomsbury and Holborn
 
Buckingham Palace
It's rare to get a chance to see how the other half—well...
Castles / Palaces Westminster and Royal London
 
Burlington Arcade
With ceilings and lights now restored to how they would have...
Neighborhoods / Streets St. James's and Mayfair
 
Churchill War Rooms
It was from this small warren of underground rooms—beneath...
Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Clarence House
The London home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for nearly...
Houses / Mansions Westminster and Royal London
 
Clock Tower Antiques Market
The weekend Clock Tower Antiques Market on Greenwich High Road...
Markets / Bazaars Greenwich
 
Courtauld Institute Gallery
One of London's most beloved art collections, the Courtauld is...
Museums / Galleries Soho and Covent Garden
 
Covent Garden Piazza
Once home to London's main flower market, where My Fair Lady's...
Squares Soho and Covent Garden
 
Dennis Severs' House
An extraordinary time-machine of a house, this mansion was the...
Houses / Mansions East End
 
Discover Greenwich
Intended as a kind of anchor point for Greenwich's big three...
Museums / Galleries Greenwich
 
Fashion and Textile Museum
The bright yellow and pink museum (it's hard to miss) designed...
Museums / Galleries The South Bank
 
Geffrye Museum of the Home
Here's where you can explore the life of London's middle class...
Museums / Galleries East End
 
Greenwich Market
Established as a fruit-and-vegetable market in 1700, and granted...
Markets / Bazaars Greenwich
 
Hampstead Heath
For an escape from the ordered prettiness of Hampstead, head...
Parks Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Highgate Cemetery
Highgate is not the oldest cemetery in London, but it is probably...
Cemeteries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Houses of Parliament
If you want to understand some of the centuries-old traditions...
Government Buildings Westminster and Royal London
 
Keats House
It was in February 1820 that John Keats (1795-1821) coughed blood...
Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Kenwood House
This gracious Georgian villa was first built in 1616 and remodeled...
Houses / Mansions Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
London Eye
To mark the start of the new millennium, architects David Marks...
Local Interest-Sight, Viewpoints The South Bank
 
London Transport Museum
Housed in the old flower market at the southeast corner of Covent...
Museums / Galleries Soho and Covent Garden
 
London Zoo
Owned by the Zoological Society of London (a charity), the zoo...
Zoos / Aquariums Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Marble Arch
John Nash's 1827 arch, moved here from Buckingham Palace in 1851...
Architectural Sites St. James's and Mayfair
 
Marylebone High Street
A favorite of newspaper style sections everywhere, this street...
Neighborhoods / Streets Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Monument
Commemorating the "dreadful visitation" of the Great Fire of...
Memorials / Monuments The City
 
Museum of London
If there's one place to absorb the history of London, from 450,000...
Museums / Galleries The City
 
National Gallery
Standing proudly on the north side of Trafalgar Square, this...
Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
National Maritime Museum
From the time of Henry VIII until the 1940s Britain was the world's...
Museums / Galleries Greenwich
 
National Portrait Gallery
Tucked around the corner from the National Gallery, the National...
Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Old Royal Naval College
Begun by Christopher Wren in 1694 as a rest home for ancient...
Educational Institutions Greenwich
 
Piccadilly Circus
The origins of the name "Piccadilly" relate to a humble 17th-century...
Neighborhoods / Streets St. James's and Mayfair
 
The Queen's Gallery
Twenty years after it was destroyed in an air raid in 1940, this...
Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Regent's Park
Cultivated and formal, compared with the relative wildness of...
Parks Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Six floors of the weird, the wacky and the downright bizarre...
Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House was built in 1664, with later Palladian additions...
Museums / Galleries St. James's and Mayfair
 
Royal Observatory
Greenwich is on the prime meridian at 0° longitude, and the...
Observatories / Planetariums Greenwich
 
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
This spectacular theater is a replica of Shakespeare's open-roof...
Arts / Performance Venues, Architectural Sites The South Bank
 
Sir John Soane's Museum
A wonderful, eccentric jewel of a place, Sir John (1753-1837)...
Museums / Galleries Bloomsbury and Holborn
 
Somerset House
In recent years this huge complex—the work of Sir William...
Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions Soho and Covent Garden
 
Southbank Centre
The public has never really warmed to the Southbank Centre's...
Arts / Performance Venues The South Bank
 
Southwark Cathedral
Pronounced "Suth-uck," this is the oldest Gothic church in London...
Religious Sites The South Bank
 
Spitalfields Market
A gorgeous piece of architecture in itself, this large restored...
Markets / Bazaars East End
 
St. James's Church
Blitzed by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and not restored until...
Religious Sites St. James's and Mayfair
 
St. James's Park
In a city of royal parks, this one—bordered by three palaces...
Parks Westminster and Royal London
 
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's is simply breathtaking, especially now that the scaffolding...
Museums / Galleries The City
 
The Supreme Court
The highest court of appeal in the U.K. is housed in the carefully...
Government Buildings Westminster and Royal London
 
Tate Britain
The stately neoclassical institution may not be as ambitious...
Museums / Galleries Westminster and Royal London
 
Tate Modern
This spectacular renovation of a mid-20th-century power station...
Museums / Galleries The South Bank
 
Tower Bridge
Despite its medieval, fairy-tale appearance, this is a Victorian...
Museums / Galleries, Bridges / Tunnels The City
 
Tower of London
Nowhere else does London's history come to life so vividly as...
Museums / Galleries, Castles / Palaces The City
 
Trafalgar Square
This is literally the center of London: a plaque on the corner...
Squares Westminster and Royal London
 
V&A Museum of Childhood
This is a Children-of-all-ages alert! The East End outpost of...
Museums / Galleries East End
 
Wallace Collection
This exquisite labyrinth of an art gallery is housed in Hertford...
Museums / Galleries Regent's Park and Hampstead
 
Wellington Arch
Opposite the Duke of Wellington's mansion, Apsley House, this...
Memorials / Monuments St. James's and Mayfair
 
Westminster Abbey
A monument to the nation's rich—and often bloody—history...
Religious Sites Westminster and Royal London
 
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Founded in 1901, this gallery has expanded into fabulous new...
Museums / Galleries East End
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