Big Ben & Houses of Parliament
Parliament Square, City of Westminster, London, SW1P 3AD, United Kingdom
Strictly speaking, Big Ben is not a tower.
Blackfriars Bridge
Queen Victoria Street, City of London, London, EC4V, United Kingdom
On the morning of the eighteenth of June nineteen eighty-two, a postman walking along the Thames noticed something hanging from scaffolding under this bridge.
Borough Market
8 Borough Market, Southwark, London, SE1 1TL, United Kingdom
Borough Market has been feeding London for the best part of a thousand years.
British Museum
Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum is the world's largest museum of stolen goods, depending on who you ask.
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
This is the house that George III bought for his wife in 1761 because she found St James's Palace too stuffy.
Cleopatra's Needle
Cycle Superhighway 3, City of Westminster, London, WC2N, United Kingdom
Right.
Covent Garden
City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Covent Garden was London's first piazza, designed by Inigo Jones in the 1630s on land owned by the Earl of Bedford.
Dennis Severs' House
18 Folgate Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 6BX, United Kingdom
This is not a museum.
Eltham Palace
Court Yard, Greenwich, London, SE9 5NP, United Kingdom
Eltham Palace is what happens when a medieval royal residence meets a 1930s millionaire couple with exceptional taste and no interest in restraint.
Goodwin's Court
City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Most people walk past the entrance to Goodwin's Court without noticing it.
Greenwich (Royal Observatory & Prime Meridian)
Blackheath Ave, London SE10 8XJ
Every timezone on Earth is measured from a line in the courtyard of this small hilltop observatory.
Hyde Park & The Serpentine
Hyde Park, London W2 2UH
Henry VIII seized this land from the monks of Westminster Abbey in 1536, turning it into a private hunting ground stocked with deer.
Kensington Palace
Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
William III bought this place in 1689 because Whitehall Palace was making his asthma worse.
Notting Hill
Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Before it was pastel-coloured houses and Hugh Grant, Notting Hill was pig farms and race riots.
Piccadilly Circus
London, United Kingdom
The statue everyone calls Eros isn't Eros.
Portobello Road Market
Portobello Road & Golborne Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W11 1AN, United Kingdom
Portobello Road was a country lane through farmland in the 1700s, named after Portobello Farm, which itself was named after the British navy's 1739 victory at Porto Bello in Panama.
Science Museum
Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD, United Kingdom
The Science Museum began as leftovers.
Shoreditch & Brick Lane
Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets, London, E1, United Kingdom
Brick Lane has been an arrival lounge for four centuries.
South Bank & Bankside
South Bank, London SE1
For most of its history, the south bank of the Thames was where London went to do the things it wasn't allowed to do on the north bank.
Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column
Trafalgar Sq, City of Westminster, London, WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom
Nelson stands 51.
York Watergate
15-16 Buckingham St, City of Westminster, London, WC2N 6DU, United Kingdom
This ornate stone arch sitting in the middle of a garden looks completely out of place.
Explore history in London
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.