The London Eye is a
giant ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is the
tallest ferris Wheel in Europe and the most popular paid tourist attraction in
the UK, visited by over 3.5 million people annually. It offered the
highest public viewing point in the city until it was superseded by the
245-metre observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard,which opened to the
public on 1st February 2013.
The Shard is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that
forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing approximately 306
metres high, the Shard is currently the tallest
building in the European Union. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable
floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck – the UK's highest
– on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres.
The Science Museum
is one of three major musuems in South Kensington, London. It was founded in
1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2.7
million visitors annually. The Science Museum now holds a collection of over
300,000 items. It also contains hundreds of interactive exhibits. A recent
addition is the IMAX 3D Cinema showing science and nature documentaries, most
of them in 3-D and the Wellcome Wing which focuses on digital technology.
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