The Neasden Temple was carved from 26,300 pieces of stone in India and assembled in north-west London. What to look for, the rules for visitors, and how to get there.

The house in Hampstead where the clock stopped in 1939. Persian rugs, over 1,600 books, and more than two thousand antiquities that Freud carried from Vienna. The most affecting house museum in London, and the one I keep returning to.

A marble bust in a top hat and a masquerade mask, paper chains in the library and a Tudor gatehouse in the frost. The National Trust's Warwickshire house at its best.

A house so big that Charles II bought it as a palace, and the third of it that survives, with Robert Adam interiors, a Capability Brown park and a parterre full of tulips in April.

John Hatchard opened on Piccadilly in 1797 and the shop has never left the street. Its history, the royal warrants, Oscar's table, whether it really is the oldest – and what it can still do that the internet cannot.

Sky Garden London is free at the top of 20 Fenchurch Street. How to book, when tickets are released, walk-in and ID rules, the view, the plants, and the building's melting-car past.

London’s most talked-about tourist attraction opens to the public. Tickets for the showstopping 25-metre-high mound located next to Marble Arch are already available and they include access to the spectacular light display featured inside the Mound. “Now more than ever, public art projects occupy an important place in society. They provide opportunity for all to enjoy and discover art, they also encourage much needed footfall back to London. The Marble Arch Mound is the perfe