Category · 50 spots
Sights, markets and hidden corners
Millwall · Places to Visit · London Bridge
London's best food market. Over 1,000 years of history, dozens of traders selling everything from oysters to Ethiopian coffee.
Arsenal · Places to Visit · Primrose Hill
A small park with the best free view of London's skyline. The hill takes 5 minutes to climb and the panorama is worth every step.
Brentford · Places to Visit · Brentford
UNESCO World Heritage botanic gardens, 300 acres of glasshouses, treetop walkways and the famous Palm House.
West Ham United · Places to Visit · Bethnal Green
Every Sunday, this street transforms into a riot of flowers, plants, and traders shouting deals. The street's independent shops are brilliant too.
Charlton Athletic · Places to Visit · Greenwich
The meridian line, the Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and a village atmosphere that feels miles from central London.
Chelsea · Places to Visit · Chelsea
London's oldest botanic garden, a four-acre walled time capsule of medicinal and rare plants founded in 1673.
Places to Visit · Crystal Palace
Victorian park with the original 1854 dinosaur sculptures, the maze and the ruins of the original Crystal Palace.
Places to Visit · Forest Hill
Eccentric Victorian museum of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments. Famous overstuffed walrus and panoramic gardens.
Queens Park Rangers · Places to Visit · Kensington
Twenty-two-hectare park with peacocks, the Kyoto Garden, and woodland walks. Easily London's prettiest small park.
Millwall · Places to Visit · Bermondsey
The Victorian bascule bridge with the glass-floored walkway high above the Thames. Iconic.
String of craft brewery taprooms in railway arches between London Bridge and South Bermondsey, Saturday only for most.
Leyton Orient · Places to Visit · Leyton
Europe's largest urban wetland nature reserve, reservoirs, birdlife and the Engine House cafe.
AFC Wimbledon · Places to Visit · Wimbledon
1140-acre common with the Windmill, woodland trails and views back over London. Home of the Wombles.
Barnet · Places to Visit · Highgate
Free English Heritage stately home on the edge of Hampstead Heath with a serious art collection, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gainsborough.
Arsenal · Places to Visit · Highbury
The old Highbury, now flats, but the iconic Art Deco facade is still there. A pilgrimage for any Gunner.
Queens Park Rangers · Places to Visit · Maida Vale
A peaceful canal junction where the Grand Union and Regent's Canals meet. Houseboats, waterside cafes, and a completely different side of London.
Chelsea · Places to Visit · Fulham
Thames-side park wrapping around the back of Craven Cottage with rose gardens, a duck pond and the All Saints church.
West Ham United · Places to Visit · Stratford
The 2012 legacy park sprawling around the London Stadium, riverside paths, wildflower meadows and free playgrounds.
Fulham · Places to Visit · Fulham
Free historic house and walled garden right next to Craven Cottage, with 1300 years of bishops' history on the Thames.
Thames-side walk from Putney Bridge to Craven Cottage. Rowing clubs, the church and pubs spilling onto the river.
Quirky museum of self-playing instruments, pianolas, orchestrions and a working Mighty Wurlitzer cinema organ.
Free, vast museum telling Britain's seafaring history, Nelson's bullet-pierced uniform from Trafalgar is the headline.
The All England Club museum with Centre Court tours, trophies and an immersive history of the championships.
Sutton United · Places to Visit · Sutton
Vast historic parkland on the site of Henry VIII's lost Nonsuch Palace, with woodland walks and a mansion.
Barnet · Places to Visit · Edgware
Free museum on a historic aerodrome with over 100 aircraft, including a Lancaster bomber and a Eurofighter.
Open green space where Arsenal fans gather before kick-off. The walk through here to the Emirates is part of the matchday ritual.
West Ham United · Places to Visit · Upton Park
A small memorial garden on the site of West Ham's old Boleyn Ground, inside the Upton Gardens development on Green Street. Plaques and benches remember supporters who never missed a game.
Arsenal · Places to Visit · Covent Garden
A tiny, colorful courtyard hidden in the middle of Covent Garden. Brightly painted buildings, a cheese shop, and a feeling of discovery.
The Duke of Northumberland's London estate with Robert Adam interiors and a Capability Brown landscape.
Modern landscaped park looking straight at the Thames Barrier's silver shells. Quiet even on busy weekends.
Boating lake and Epping Forest woodland on the edge of Leyton. Boats for hire on summer matchdays.
Ancient royal park with lakes, the Temple folly and Epping Forest woodland.
Working 1817 hollow-post windmill on Wimbledon Common with a small free museum and tea room.
Free local history museum in a chalk-stream-side Tudor house in Carshalton. Proper south London hidden gem.
Ancient woodland and heathland on the edge of north London with Iron Age earthworks and lake views.
Free contemporary art gallery in the old Duke of York's barracks, big, well-lit rooms and consistently good shows.
Tottenham Hotspur · Places to Visit · Tottenham
Riverside park along the River Lea with a Victorian beam-engine museum tucked inside. Quiet even on matchdays.
Big community park with a model traffic area for kids, an environmental centre and a regular community cafe.
Community cafe and viewing platform built from shipping containers on the Greenway, looking right at the stadium.
Volunteer-run museum in the old engineering school, telling the story of the Great Exhibition palace that gave the area its name.
Bright pink Zandra Rhodes-founded museum on Bermondsey Street with constantly-changing fashion exhibitions.
Charlton Athletic · Places to Visit · Charlton
Jacobean mansion just up the hill from the Valley with free gardens, a community cafe and original 1607 interiors.
500-year-old timber-framed house in Cheam Village with original Tudor features and free entry on event days.
Arsenal · Places to Visit · Finsbury Park
Big green park at the top of the Piccadilly Line. Cafe, lake and a great spot to kill an hour before kick-off.
Free museum in a 16th-century manor house in the middle of Bruce Castle Park, local history, Robert the Bruce ancestry and rolling lawns.
Anish Kapoor's twisted 114-metre observation tower with the world's longest tunnel slide on the way down.
Open public park next to the famous private club, with cricket pitches, big lawns and quiet matchday vibes.
Queens Park Rangers · Places to Visit · Shepherd's Bush
One of Europe's biggest shopping centres, with a serious food hall, a cinema and the world's first Lego store.
Long-running street market under the Hammersmith & City line, fabrics, Caribbean food, vinyl and cheap eats.
One of the biggest shopping centres in Europe, right next to London Stadium. Shops, a cinema, dozens of food options.
