Hyde Park

Park

4.7

Huge green space, home to Diana Memorial Fountain, with boating and swimming in the Serpentine lake.

London Eye

Ferris wheel

4.5

Buckingham Palace

Cultural landmark

4.5

Visitors can tour the palace's opulent private and state rooms or watch the changing of the guard.

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Attraction

4.5

Wren's 18th-century astronomical observatory on the Prime Meridian, now a museum with a planetarium.

Sky Garden

Attraction

4.6

Known as the walkie talkie due to its unique shape, this skyscraper features a top-floor restaurant.

Shakespeare's Globe

Performing arts theater

4.6

Oak-&-thatch replica of the original Elizabethan theatre, showing Shakespeare plays in the open air.

Borough Market

Market

4.6

Huge market under the railway lines, for British-reared meat and artisanal baked and dairy goods.

Summer Special: Buckingham Palace & Windsor Castle Tour

Activity

3.9

Shoreditch

Landmark

Camden Town

Landmark

Brick Lane

Landmark

4.6

Landmark lane known for its vintage markets & boutiques, curry restaurants, street art & galleries.

Greenwich

Landmark

Cutty Sark

Museum

4.5

Museum arranged around the eponymous ship that used to speed tea from Asia to Victorian Britain.

Natural History Museum

Museum

4.7

Landmark museum of animals and natural phenomena, with hands-on exhibits and animatronic dinosaurs.