Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station, Circus Road West, London SW11 8DD
Battersea Power Station spent 40 years as London's most glamorous ruin — four white chimneys rising from a decommissioned Art Deco cathedral of electricity, famous from the Pink Floyd album cover, visible from half the city, and stubbornly refusing every developer's attempt to do something with it.
Big Ben & Houses of Parliament
Parliament Square, City of Westminster, London, SW1P 3AD, United Kingdom
Strictly speaking, Big Ben is not a tower.
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.
Churchill War Rooms
King Charles Street, City of Westminster, London, SW1A, United Kingdom
Beneath your feet right now is the bunker where the British government ran the Second World War.
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.
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.
London Eye
Westminster Bridge Road, Westminster, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
They built this thing to be temporary.
Piccadilly Circus
London, United Kingdom
The statue everyone calls Eros isn't Eros.
Richmond Park
Richmond Park, London TW10 5HS
Richmond Park is 2,500 acres of ancient woodland, grassland, and medieval deer park sitting improbably inside zone 4 of the London Underground map.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
21 New Globe Walk, Southwark, London, SE1 9DT, United Kingdom
The building you're looking at is a reconstruction.
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul’s Churchyard, City of London, London, EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom
Look up at that dome.
The Shard
32 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG
Renzo Piano sketched the first concept for this building on the back of a napkin at a Berlin restaurant.
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP
Everyone calls it London Bridge, and everyone is wrong.
Tower of London
Tower of London, London EC3N 4AB
So here's the thing about the ravens.
Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column
Trafalgar Sq, City of Westminster, London, WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom
Nelson stands 51.
Westminster Abbey
20 Deans Yard, London SW1P 3PA
This place has hosted every English and British coronation since William the Conqueror in ten sixty-six.
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