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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