Piccadilly Circus -reminds me of Times Square.

Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus

Leicester Square: Statue of William Shakespeare (19th century)

Leicester Square: Queen's House. Used to be a hotel, but now houses a casino and Ruby Blue.

High up on the roof of a building in Piccadilly Circus area (Building on corner of Haymarket and Conventry)

Piccadilly Circus: Old Cafe Royal building on right.

Piccadilly Circus: To of the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain. (1893)

Statue on roof of building on corner of Piccadilly and Glasshouse. I believe it's the Cafe Royal, which closed and is supposedly getting turned into a hotel.

Another view of the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain. The statue is of Anteros.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (aka Kew Gardens). It's been around for 250 years, and is a sprawling 300 acre mix of indoor and outdoor gardens and exhibits. This tower is the Campanile. It was built to disguise the chimney for the boilers that heat the Palm House.

Kew Gardens - Palm house, built between 1844 and 1848. It is 363 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 66 feet tall at its highest point.

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens - inside the palm house

Kew Gardens - Waterlily house (1852)

Kew Gardens - Waterlily house

Kew Gardens - Waterlily house

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens - There were lots of these birds flying around (Ring Necked Parakeet)

Kew Gardens - Temperate House. At 52,530 sqft, it's the largest public glass house at Kew 1860-1898).

Kew Gardens - umm.... banana plant maybe?

Kew Gardens - Inside the temperate house

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Brenda next to a large version of a small plant we get each year to attract humming birds.

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Brenda next to a large version of a plant some friends have in front of their house.

Temperate house statue

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House. The world's largest indoor plant is the Chilean wine-palm. It was grown from seed in 1846 and is now 52 feet high. (Left side of picture)

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Temperate House

Kew Gardens - Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway. The treetop walkway opened on May 24, 2008. This walkway is 59 ft high and 660 ft long.

Kew Gardens - view from treetop walkway of Temperate House.

Kew Gardens - view from treetop walkway of Temperate House.

Kew Gardens - Treetop walkway

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens - Sackler Crossing bridge

Kew Gardens - peacock

Kew Gardens - Pagoda (built in 1762)

Kew Gardens - Chokushi-Mon area