Monumento · Knightsbridge and Belgravia · 107 dicas e avaliações
HISTORY UK: Sculpted from Italian marble and based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome, this was built in 1827 as the entrance to Buckingham Palace. It was moved here in 1851 when the palace was enlarged.
Cromwell Rd (at Queen's Gate), Londres, Greater London
Museu de Ciências · South Kensington · 621 dicas e avaliações
HISTORY UK: Opened in 1881, the museum facade uses terracotta tiles which were resistant to the soot of Victorian London. The largest of the famous dinosaur skeletons in the central hall is a diplodocus.
Museu de Ciências · Kensington and Chelsea · 443 dicas e avaliações
HISTORY UK: Much of the collection was inherited from the Museum of Patents (est 1858) and includes early locomotives such as Stephenson’s Rocket and Puffing Billy, and the first jet engine.
Loja de Eletrônicos · City of Westminster · 292 dicas e avaliações
Londonist: Yeah, it looks all shiny now, but go back 230 years and you'd be watching graverobbed corpses being dissected by the Hunter brothers. How quickly people forget.
HISTORY UK: Built in 1703 for the Duke of Buckingham, George III acquired it in 1762 as a private house. It became an official royal residence in the reign of Queen Victoria, when it was greatly enlarged.
Ponte · St. Katharine's and Wapping · 472 dicas e avaliações
HISTORY UK: To mark the 50th birthday of the Royal Air Force in 1968, Flight Lt. Allan Pollock flew his Hawker jet under the walkway of Tower Bridge. This unauthorised stunt won him a court martial.
The Queen's Walk (Belvedere Rd), Londres, Greater London
Atração · Waterloo · 975 dicas e avaliações
HISTORY UK: Currently the third tallest Ferris wheel in the world (the tallest when built in 1999, but now behind Singapore and Nanchang), it moves at 0.6mph, and you can see 25 miles from the top.