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London, England
It's not so bad being trendy, everyone who looks like me is my friend
Sir Norman Foster's new footbridge over the Thames is beautiful and unsafe. It was open for only three days before it was closed.
If you were able to walk across Norman Foster's wobbly bridge, you could quickly and easily travel from Saint Paul's Cathedral (arguably the fourth greatest dome in all of Christendom) directly to the Tate Modern, inside Bankside's glorious former power station. The galleries, designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, are as good as the Tate's wonderfully modern collection, truly one of my personal favorites (along with the Pompidou, Hirshorn and Whitney).
Despite a Norman Foster building, a signature show written by Peter Gabriel, the presence of the Prime Meridian (marked by christmas runway lights like you see at movie theatres or when your plane is crashing), the UK's largest McDonalds and numerous confusing world's fair type exhibits, no one really likes Greenwich's Millennium Dome.
Outside and inside the Millennium Dome, bracing for big crowds but not all that busy when I visited.
Certainly picturesque but more importantly gracious, Bath is a good hour and a half west of London by train but certainly farther in most every other way. This is the world famous Royal Crescent, or at least a part of it.
Still in Bath but closer to the actual baths (geological hot springs favored by the Romans), this is a small park off the River Avon. For extra fun, see if you can find the Dinosaur egg topiary.
