With its great glass-and-iron dome rising above South Kensington, the Royal Albert Hall is one of the world’s most famous concert venues and a beloved London landmark. Since 1871 this

One of the great institutions of South Kensington’s “museum quarter,” the Science Museum is a thrilling celebration of human ingenuity — and, best of all, it’s free to enter. From

If I could recommend just one walk to a first-time visitor, it would be this: the riverside path along the South Bank of the Thames. Flat, free, and lined with

If you ask a local for one free thing every visitor should do in London, many will say the same: walk the South Bank. This wide, traffic-free promenade runs along

Few places pack as much drama into one site as the Tower of London. For nearly a thousand years this riverside fortress has been a royal palace, an armoury, a

Few places on earth pack as much drama into one set of stone walls as the Tower of London. For nearly a thousand years it has been a fortress, a

Often overshadowed by its neighbors, the Victoria and Albert Museum — the V&A to everyone who knows it — is quietly one of the most beautiful and fascinating museums in

The Victoria and Albert Museum — known to everyone simply as the V&A — is the world’s leading museum of art, design, and performance. Where the British Museum tells the

With its twin towers, blue suspension cables, and drawbridge over the Thames, Tower Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures on the planet. It is also, hands down, the

It is the bridge on every London postcard, and almost everyone calls it by the wrong name. This is Tower Bridge — the one with the two pointed towers and