Overrated in London

Sights in London

★☆☆

Tower Bridge

London: City

Tours

This faux-medieval bridge is well worth the photo stop—but you might not bother with the exhibition

Monument

★☆☆

London Eye

London: Southwark

Tickets Tours

Lovely views from the world's most overpriced Ferris wheel

Scenic ride

☆☆☆

Madame Tussauds

London: East of Hyde

Tickets Tours

Madame Tussaud's is more than just a wax museum—but less than the must-see sight it is made out to be

Museum

Experiences in London

☆☆☆

Changing of the Guard

London: Westminster

Tours

The boring of the tourists—I mean the changing of the guard—at London's Royal Residence

See

Eat

Fun Facts

Alice Liddell

Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church College from the 1850s to 1891, had a duaghter in 1852 he named Alice Pleasance Liddell. The Liddell family struck up a friendship with a mathematics professor named Charles Dodgson, who would regale the Liddell sisters with elaborate fantasy tales on their boating trips down Oxford's rivers. Little Alice begged Dodgson to write some of them down, and he did, using the pename Lewis Carroll, casting a precocious seven-year old girl named "Allice" as the protagonist, and eventually publishing Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

Alice Liddell, Age 7