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1. Benjamin Franklin House
Covent Garden | House/Mansion/VillaThis architecturally significant 1730 house is the only surviving residence of American statesman, scientist, writer, and inventor Benjamin...Read More
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2. British Museum
Bloomsbury | Museum/GalleryThe sheer scale and importance of the British Museum's many treasures is impossible to overstate or exaggerate; it truly is one of the world...Read More
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3. Churchill War Rooms
Westminster | Museum/GalleryIt was from this small warren of underground rooms—beneath the vast government buildings of the Treasury—that Winston Churchill and his team...Read More
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4. Covent Garden Piazza
Covent Garden | Historic District/SiteOnce home to London's main flower market, where My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle peddled her blooms, the square around which Covent Garden pivots...Read More
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5. Cutty Sark
Greenwich | Historic District/SiteThis sleek, romantic clipper was built in 1869, one among a vast fleet of tall-masted wooden ships that plied the oceanic highways of the 19th...Read More
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6. Hampstead Heath
Hampstead | Park/PlaygroundFor generations, Londoners have headed to Hampstead Heath to escape the dirt and noise of the city, and this unique 791-acre expanse of rus...Read More
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7. Hampton Court Palace
Castle/Palace/ChateauThe beloved seat of Henry VIII's court, sprawled elegantly beside the languid waters of the Thames, Hampton Court is steeped in more history...Read More
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8. Hyde Park
Hyde Park | Park/PlaygroundAlong with the smaller St. James's and Green parks to the east, the 350-acre Hyde Park grew out of Henry VIII's hunting grounds. Along its south...Read More
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9. IWM London
South Bank | Museum/GalleryDespite its name, the cultural venue formerly known as the Imperial War Museum (one of five IWM branches around the country) does not glorify...Read More
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10. Kensington Gardens
Kensington | Garden/ArboretumLaid out in 1689 by William III, who commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build Kensington Palace, the gardens are a formal counterpart to...Read More
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11. Kensington Palace
Kensington | Castle/Palace/ChateauThis is a rare chance to get a glimpse into the more domestic and personal side of royal life. Neither as imposing as Buckingham Palace nor...Read More
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12. Kew Gardens
Kew | Garden/ArboretumEnter the Royal Botanic Gardens, as Kew Gardens are officially known, and you are enveloped by blazes of color, extraordinary blooms, hidden...Read More
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13. London Eye
South Bank | Viewpoint/Scenic OverlookTo mark the start of the new millennium, architects David Marks and Julia Barfield devised this instant icon that allows Londoners and visitors...Read More
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14. Lord's
St. John's Wood | Sports VenueLord's Cricket Ground, home of the venerable 1787 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has been hallowed cricketing turf since 1814, and MCC rules...Read More
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15. Museum of London
City of London | Museum/GalleryThis fascinating museum reveals London in its many incarnations, from its first days as a Roman settlement around AD 50 (and even before, with...Read More
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16. National Gallery
Westminster | Museum/GalleryAnyone with even a passing interest in art will want to put this near the top of their to-do lists while visiting London, for it is truly one...Read More
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17. National Maritime Museum
Greenwich | Museum/GalleryFrom the time of Henry VIII until the 1940s, Britain was the world's preeminent naval power, and the collections here trace half a millennia...Read More
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18. National Portrait Gallery
Westminster | Museum/GalleryThe National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 with a single aim: to gather together portraits of famous (and infamous) Britons throughout...Read More
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19. Natural History Museum
South Kensington | Museum/GalleryOriginally built to house the British Museum’s natural history collection and bolstered by samples provided by Britain’s great 19th-century...Read More
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20. Primrose Hill
Regent's Park | Park/PlaygroundMore conventionally parklike than Hampstead Heath, the rolling lawns of Primrose Hill, the northerly extension of Regent's Park, rises to 213...Read More
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