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The Old Royal Naval College is a group of riverside buildings in Greenwich, designed by Christopher Wren and built from 1696 to 1712 as the Royal Hospital for Seamen. From 1873 to 1998 it housed the Royal Naval College. Visitors see the Painted Hall, decorated by James Thornhill, the chapel and the grounds of Maritime Greenwich.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich covers Britain's history at sea. Opened by King George VI in 1937 in the former Royal Hospital School buildings on the edge of Greenwich Park, it holds more than two million items, including maritime paintings, maps, ship models, navigational instruments and objects linked to Nelson and Captain Cook.

Up at The O2 is a guided climb over the roof of The O2, the former Millennium Dome on the Greenwich Peninsula. Wearing harnesses clipped to a safety line, climbers follow a walkway up the dome to a summit platform 52 metres above the ground and back down again, in a climb of about 90 minutes with views across London.

The Royal Observatory stands on a hill in Greenwich Park; King Charles II commissioned it in 1675, and Flamsteed House, its first building, was completed in 1676 to a design by Christopher Wren. The Prime Meridian passes through the site, which gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time. It is now a museum of astronomy and timekeeping with a planetarium.

Greenwich Park is a former royal hunting park in south-east London and, enclosed in 1433, the first of the city's Royal Parks to be walled in. Its 74 hectares rise to the Royal Observatory on the Prime Meridian, and the hilltop looks over the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College to the Thames and Canary Wharf.

The London Cable Car is a gondola lift that crosses the Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Victoria Dock, west of ExCeL London. Built by Doppelmayr and opened in June 2012, it is owned by Transport for London. Its cabins travel about one kilometre and rise to 90 metres above the river, with views over Docklands and Greenwich.

Alexandra Palace is a Victorian entertainment venue on a hill in Alexandra Park, north London, designed by John Johnson and Alfred Meeson. It opened in 1873, burned down two weeks later and was rebuilt in 1875. In 1936 the BBC began its regular television service here, and the transmitter mast is still in use.

F1 Drive London is an electric go-karting venue built under the South Stand of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after a motorsport deal between the club and Formula One, and opened in February 2024. Drivers race karts styled on Formula One cars on a 500-metre track with 17 turns and two DRS zones, in sessions for children, mixed groups and adults.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the home ground of Tottenham Hotspur, opened in April 2019 on the site of the old White Hart Lane. It seats 62,850, with a single-tier South Stand for 17,500 fans and a retractable grass pitch over an artificial surface used for NFL games. Stadium tours go behind the scenes, and The Dare Skywalk leads onto the roof.

Wembley Stadium is England's national football stadium in north-west London, opened in 2007 on the site of the original stadium of 1923. Designed by Foster and Partners with Populous, it seats 90,000 under a roof held by a 134-metre steel arch. Guided tours visit the dressing rooms and the players' tunnel.

Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in south-west London founded in 1759 and run by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003. Its 132 hectares hold Victorian glasshouses such as the Palm House and the Temperate House, the Great Pagoda of 1762, and a herbarium of more than 8.5 million preserved specimens.

Eltham Palace in south-east London joins the great hall of a medieval royal palace, built for Edward IV in the 1470s, to an Art Deco house added in the 1930s for Stephen and Virginia Courtauld. English Heritage runs the site, with its 1930s interiors, the hall's hammerbeam roof, a moat crossed by a medieval bridge, and gardens.