Gardens & Nature
8 free
Kyoto Garden, Holland Park
Authentic Japanese garden with a waterfall, koi and roaming peacocks.
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Isabella Plantation
40-acre woodland garden in Richmond Park famed for spring azaleas.
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Queen Mary's Gardens
London's largest rose collection within Regent's Park.
Read the full guide →Walthamstow Wetlands
Europe's largest urban wetland nature reserve.
Barbican Conservatory
Tropical glasshouse with 1,500+ plants in the Brutalist Barbican.
Fulham Palace & Gardens
Historic riverside gardens and walled garden of the former Bishops of London.
Squares & Streets
14 free
The Royal Exchange
Grade I Victorian commercial building with shops and a courtyard.
Postman's Park
Tranquil City garden with the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice.
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Coal Drops Yard & Granary Square
Regenerated Victorian coal yards with fountains, shops and canalside seating.
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Trafalgar Square
London's central square with Nelson's Column, lion statues and the Fourth Plinth.
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Covent Garden Piazza
Historic piazza with street performers and the Apple Market.
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Paternoster Square
Modern square beside St Paul's with the Temple Bar gateway.
Read the full guide →Parks & Green Spaces
34 free
Hyde Park
350-acre central Royal Park with the Serpentine, Speakers' Corner and memorials.
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Kensington Gardens
Former royal gardens with the Italian Gardens, Peter Pan statue and Albert Memorial.
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Regent's Park
Royal Park with Queen Mary's Rose Garden and the Open Air Theatre.
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St James's Park
Oldest Royal Park, with a pelican-dotted lake and views of Buckingham Palace.
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Green Park
Tranquil tree-filled Royal Park between Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly.
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Greenwich Park
Oldest enclosed Royal Park with gardens, deer and hilltop views.
Read the full guide →- Richmond Park
- Bushy Park
- Hampstead Heath
- Victoria Park
- Battersea Park
- Clapham Common
- Wimbledon Common
- Brockwell Park
- Finsbury Park
- Holland Park
- Peckham Rye Park & Common
- Dulwich Park
- Trent Park
- Epping Forest
- London Fields
- Golders Hill Park
- Well Hall Pleasaunce
- Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
- Brompton Cemetery
- Abney Park Cemetery
- West Norwood Cemetery
- Hackney City Farm
- One Tree Hill
- Brown Hart Gardens
- Peace Garden, Tavistock Square
- Christchurch Greyfriars Church Garden
- Mount Street Gardens
- Joseph Grimaldi Park
Museums
31 free
British Museum
World-history collection of 8m+ objects including the Rosetta Stone and Parthenon sculptures.
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
World's leading museum of art and design, 5,000 years of objects.
Natural History Museum
Dinosaurs, the blue whale skeleton and 70m specimens; the UK's most-visited attraction.
Science Museum
Hands-on science and engineering history.
Imperial War Museum London
Conflict from WWI to today with aircraft, tanks and the Holocaust Galleries.
Museum of London Docklands
London's river and port history in a Grade I Georgian warehouse.
Read the full guide →- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Wellcome Collection
- Bank of England Museum
- National Maritime Museum
- RAF Museum London
- Horniman Museum
- British Library Treasures Gallery
- National Army Museum
- Young V&A
- V&A East Storehouse
- Grant Museum of Zoology
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
- Hunterian Museum
- Florence Nightingale Museum ↗
- Museum of the Home ↗
- Dr Johnson's House ↗
- Camera Museum
- Michael Faraday's Laboratory (Faraday Museum)
- The Charterhouse
- The Clockmakers' Museum
- Ragged School Museum
- British Dental Museum
- Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
- Isokon Gallery
- Queer Britain
Viewpoints
9 free
Sky Garden
Three-storey indoor garden atop the Walkie-Talkie with 360 views.
Horizon 22
London's highest free viewing platform, on the 58th floor of 22 Bishopsgate.
The Garden at 120
Open-air rooftop garden with Shard and Gherkin views.
The Lookout at 8 Bishopsgate
Indoor 50th-floor viewing gallery.
Tate Modern Viewing Level
10th-floor Blavatnik Building terrace with views over St Paul's and the Thames.
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One New Change Roof Terrace
Rooftop terrace with the closest views of St Paul's dome.
Cultural Spaces
7 freeTwo Temple Place
Opulent neo-Gothic mansion open free during its winter exhibitions.
Hackney Wick
A canalside warehouse district turned open-air street-art gallery.
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Southbank Centre / Royal Festival Hall
Riverside arts complex with free foyer exhibitions, performances and river views.
Changing of the Guard
Famous ceremony of red-tunicked guards at Buckingham Palace.
Changing of the King's Life Guard, Horse Guards
Mounted Household Cavalry ceremony, quieter than Buckingham Palace.
Read the full guide →Speakers' Corner
Historic free-speech forum at the NE corner of Hyde Park.
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Libraries
8 free
Daunt Books Marylebone
Edwardian travel bookshop with long oak galleries and a stained-glass window.
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British Library piazza & building
UK's national library with free exhibition spaces and a Grade I-listed interior.
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Barbican Library
Public lending library within the Brutalist Barbican with garden views.
Read the full guide →National Poetry Library
World's largest public poetry collection on the 5th floor of the Royal Festival Hall.
Read the full guide →BFI Reuben Library
Film and moving-image library with wood-lined interiors.
Read the full guide →Canada Water Library
Striking inverted-pyramid library overhanging the dock.
Read the full guide →Walks
6 freeBrick Lane Street Art
Ever-changing open-air gallery of murals by Banksy, Stik and others.
Shoreditch Street Art
Dense concentration of world-class murals around Redchurch and Rivington Streets.
Thames Path (Central London)
Riverside path linking Westminster, Bankside and the Tower with landmark views.
Read the full guide →Parkland Walk
Disused-railway nature trail with a famous spriggan sculpture.
Read the full guide →William Blake Mosaics
Open-air mosaic gallery honouring Blake near Waterloo.
Read the full guide →Scenes from the Frost Fair
Murals of the parties once held on the frozen Thames, under Southwark Bridge.
Read the full guide →Markets
14 free
Leadenhall Market
Ornate Victorian covered market that doubled as Diagon Alley.
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Borough Market
London's most famous food market, trading since the 11th century.
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Sunday street market bursting with flowers and plants.
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Camden Market
Sprawling alternative market of food, vintage and crafts by the canal.
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Portobello Road Market
One of the world's largest antiques markets, best on Saturdays.
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Old Spitalfields Market
Covered market mixing fashion, antiques and food.
Read the full guide →Riverside & Canals
5 free
Little Venice
Tranquil canal junction of narrowboats, cafes and willow-lined water.
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Regent's Canal Towpath
8.6-mile towpath from Little Venice to Limehouse passing the zoo, Camden and King's Cross.
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South Bank / Queen's Walk
Thames-side promenade past the London Eye, with public art and skyline views.
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St Katharine Docks
Pretty marina of yachts, cafes and historic warehouses beside the Tower.
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Limehouse Basin
Tranquil marina where Regent's Canal meets the Thames.
Read the full guide →Churches & Cathedrals
26 free
Temple Church
Round 12th-century church built by the Knights Templar.
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St Paul's Cathedral
Wren's iconic domed masterpiece.
Southwark Cathedral
Gothic cathedral by Borough Market where Shakespeare's brother is buried.
Westminster Cathedral
England's principal Catholic cathedral in Byzantine red-and-white brick.
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Landmark Georgian church on Trafalgar Square with a crypt cafe.
Read the full guide →St Bride's Church
Wren's journalists' church with the tallest City spire.
Read the full guide →- St Stephen Walbrook
- St Mary-le-Bow
- St Bartholomew-the-Great ↗
- St James's Church Piccadilly
- Brompton Oratory
- St Magnus the Martyr
- St Olave Hart Street
- Christ Church Spitalfields
- BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple)
- All Hallows by the Tower
- Fitzrovia Chapel
- Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane
- Church of the Annunciation
- Buddhapadipa Temple
- All Saints Church, Kingston
- Shri Sanatan Mandir, Wembley
- St Pancras Old Church & Churchyard
- St Nicholas Church Memento Mori
- Church of Notre Dame de France
- Hand of St Etheldreda
Art Galleries
12 free
National Gallery
Western European masterpieces from Van Eyck to Van Gogh.
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits of famous Britons across centuries, reopened 2023.
Tate Modern
Modern and contemporary art in a former power station with a vast Turbine Hall.
Tate Britain
British art from 1500 to today with the world's greatest Turner holdings.
Wallace Collection
Old Master paintings, French furniture and armour in a townhouse.
Read the full guide →Saatchi Gallery
Contemporary art at the Duke of York's HQ.
Historic & Landmarks
56 freeBunhill Fields
Historic Dissenters' burial ground with the graves of Blake, Defoe and Bunyan.
Read the full guide →London Mithraeum (Temple of Mithras)
Reconstructed Roman temple with an immersive experience beneath Bloomberg's HQ.
Millennium Bridge
Pedestrian blade-of-light bridge linking St Paul's and Tate Modern.
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Tower Bridge (walk across)
Iconic bascule bridge.
Houses of Parliament public galleries
Watch debates and PMQs free from the public galleries.
Old Royal Naval College grounds & Chapel
Wren's riverside Baroque masterpiece.
- Kenwood House
- Diana Memorial Fountain
- Wellington Arch exterior / Hyde Park Corner
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Greenwich Foot Tunnel
- Nunhead Cemetery
- Paddington Bear Statue
- Crystal Palace Park Ruins
- London Wall
- Broad Street Cholera Pump (John Snow Memorial)
- Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
- Peter Pan Statue
- London Necropolis Railway Station
- Site of Execution Dock
- The London Stone
- Battersea Power Station
- Temple Bar Memorial Dragon
- Tyburn Tree Marker
- Allies Sculpture
- Sir Richard Burton's Tent-Tomb
- The Theatre (Shakespeare's first playhouse)
- William Wallace Memorial
- The First Public Drinking Fountain
- Traitors' Gate
- Boadicea and Her Daughters
- Roman Wharf Timber
- William Blake's Home
- Tomb of the Unknown London Girl
- Golden Hinde (exterior)
- Brown Dog Statue
- Container City
- York Water Gate
- Aldgate Pump
- Animals in War Memorial
- A Conversation With Oscar Wilde
- Tower of London Menagerie Sculptures
- Cleopatra's Needle
- S.O.E. Monument
- Remains of the Old London Bridge
- Quantum Cloud
- The Coronation Stone
- The Golden Boy at Pye Corner
- Memorial to the Women of WWII
- Henry VIII Gatehouse Statue
- Brixton Windmill
- Strand Lane 'Roman Baths'
- Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon
- St Augustine's Tower
- Charlton House