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.
Crystal Palace Park Dinosaurs
Crystal Palace Park, Thicket Road, London SE20 8DT
In a lake in a park in south London, there are dinosaurs.
Cutty Sark
King William Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9HT
The Cutty Sark is the last surviving tea clipper — the Formula One cars of the Victorian shipping world — and she's been lifted out of the water and suspended in a glass case so you can walk underneath her copper-clad hull and appreciate the engineering that made her the fastest ship in the world.
Dennis Severs' House
18 Folgate Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 6BX, United Kingdom
This is not a museum.
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road, Dulwich, London SE21 7AD
Dulwich Picture Gallery is the oldest purpose-built public art gallery in the world, and it's hiding in a leafy south London suburb where most Londoners have never been.
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.
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
The Imperial War Museum sits in what used to be the Bethlem Royal Hospital — better known as 'Bedlam,' the world's most infamous asylum.
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.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
21 New Globe Walk, Southwark, London, SE1 9DT, United Kingdom
The building you're looking at is a reconstruction.
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.
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