Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens
London's largest and most central royal park, split into Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, with the Serpentine lake, Speakers' Corner, and the Diana Memorial Fountain and Playground.
Regent's Park & Primrose Hill
A 395-acre royal park designed by John Nash, home to London Zoo and formal rose gardens, with neighbouring Primrose Hill offering one of the city's six protected skyline viewpoints.
Hampstead Heath & Kenwood House
320 hectares of genuinely wild-feeling parkland in north London, with the city's best free panoramic view from Parliament Hill and a free Old Masters collection at Kenwood House.
Borough Market
London's oldest food market, trading in some form since at least 1014, now a dense warren of artisan food stalls, cheesemongers and street-food vendors under Victorian ironwork by London Bridge.
Diana Memorial Playground
A free Peter Pan-themed playground in Kensington Gardens built in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, centred on a large wooden pirate ship for climbing and imaginative play.
Up at The O2
A guided climb up a fabric walkway across the curved roof of The O2 arena, reaching a viewing platform 52 metres above the Greenwich Peninsula.
Postal Museum & Mail Rail
A hands-on museum of Britain's postal history with its star attraction underground — a ride on the original driverless Mail Rail trains through century-old tunnels.
Leadenhall Market
An ornate Victorian covered market in the heart of the City of London's financial district, its green-and-maroon ironwork instantly recognisable as a Harry Potter filming location.
Covent Garden
London's original planned public square, now a lively piazza of street performers, an indoor Apple Market, the Royal Opera House and London's oldest working theatre.
London Zoo
The world's oldest scientific zoo, founded in 1828 inside Regent's Park, home to over 300 species including tigers, gorillas and a walk-through penguin beach.
Portobello Road Market
London's largest antiques market, running the length of a Notting Hill street once made famous on film, busiest and best on Saturdays when the antiques stalls are in full swing.
Old Spitalfields Market
A Victorian covered market in the East End turned fashion, food and craft destination, with a history of feeding London stretching back to a 1638 royal licence.
Brick Lane
The East End's most famous street, a living record of successive immigrant communities from Huguenot weavers to Bengali curry houses, now also London's street art heartland.
Thames River Cruise (Uber Boat by Thames Clippers)
A fast, frequent catamaran river-bus service that doubles as a scenic sightseeing cruise, linking Westminster, the London Eye, Tower Bridge and Greenwich along the Thames.
Camden Market
A sprawling cluster of markets around Camden Lock on Regent's Canal — alternative fashion, global street food and live-music history, and one of London's most-visited free attractions.
ArcelorMittal Orbit
Britain's tallest sculpture, a swirling red steel tower by Anish Kapoor in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with viewing platforms and the world's longest tunnel slide.