Best places: Historical landmarks in Westminster, United Kingdom

One of Britain's great Victorian splendours, most famous for the Proms classical music festival.

Formal gardens & gates surround a grand monument to Queen Victoria with marble & bronze statues.

Grand, 19th-century, state reception chambers, including the palace throne room.

👍👍 The enormous oak timbers of Westminster Hall's hammerbeam roof are awesome. However, current conservation work on the ancient stone walls is revealing a structure, long forgotten but just as fascinating.

Museum in the Iron Duke's Georgian house with a fine art collection & a Canova statue of Napoleon.

Visitors can tour the palace's opulent private and state rooms or watch the changing of the guard.

19th-century memorial arch topped by a bronze sculpture, with exhibition space and viewing gallery.

Iconic sculpture of Britain's WWII prime minister, on a plinth beside the houses of parliament.

Landmark faced in white marble, designed as a state entrance to Buckingham Palace but relocated.

Elegant city-bound mansion with lavish interiors & built by ancestors of Princess Diana.

👍 CANADA GATE or LA PUERTA DE CANADA, is the most impressive entrance to the GREEN PARK, an immense gate with spectacular structures and hardware, this is one of the eight royal parks, this one dedicated to QUEEN VICTORIA, who died in 1901, La Puerta of Canada was commissioned, in 1905, along with th...

Handel's home from 1723-1759, with period Georgian features, instruments and scores, plus recitals.

A grand collection of royal transport including horses, cars & the fancy 1762 Gold State Coach.

Cast-iron replica of the Houses of Parliament's clock tower, itself a minor landmark, made in 1892.

👍👍 This pretty cottage was build in 1841 as the home of the bird-keeper in St James’s Park. It also had a club room for the Ornithologist Society of London, which once helped to look after the park’s ducks and geese.

👍👍 Very nice place! "The best way to find yourself is to dissolve in serving others" - his words is still relevant and very important. He was a grate sage...

👍👍 Beautiful memorial to the Canadians lost in WWll. The Memorial is located in an area of Green Park Close to Buckingham Palace. The area is tranquil and the is ascentuated by the soft sound of moving water. A nice touch is the prints of Maple Leaves in the memorial. A nice place to visit and contempl...

👍👍 The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, situated between The Mall and Carlton Gardens in central London, is a memorial to King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth. Completed in its present form in 2009, the memorial incorporates an earlier, Grade II-listed statue of George VI by Will...

👍👍 Great leader

Park-bound Sunday soapbox where speakers such as Orwell & Marx have tried to convert the masses.