Favorite Southwark pub filled with cozy snugs and literary associations just a block from Shakespeare's Globe
A Michelin-starred Mayfair classic with 360-degree views over Hyde Park and London
Fine French cuisine with Thameside views of the Tower of London
A rambling, 150-year-old Greenwich pub with decent grub, Dickens associations, and a small terrace overlooking the Thames
An elegant 18C pavilion where Queen Anne once entertained
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.