London contains some of the most popular sites which are declared World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens( Kew gardens), the historic settlement of Greenwich, and the Palace of Westminster along with the Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church.

   Windsor castle (in Windsor in the county of Berkshire) and the Buckingham Palace are the residential and official meeting place of the queen (Queen Elizabeth II).

   The West End is London's main shopping area, with locations such as Oxford Street, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus acting as tourist hotspots. These places are heavily crowded during the weekends and festival seasons. The West London area is famous for fashionable and expensive residential areas such as Notting Hill, Knightsbridge and Chelsea.

   Europe's busiest shopping area is Oxford Street, a shopping street nearly 1 mile long, which makes it the longest shopping street in the world and home to many department stores including Selfridges,Harrods department store. Millennium Dome, located by the Thames, is now used as an entertainment venue known as The O2.

The Big Ben and Palace of Westminster, are historic monuments which are situated near the London Eye (also known as Millennium Wheel ) situated near thames river,