Category
Park
13 places
- Central ParkA designed landscape laid out from 1856 across the middle of Manhattan — lakes, meadows and bare rock, none of it accidental.Park
- High LineA freight viaduct saved from demolition and planted as a walkway, opened in 2009 above the West Side streets.Park
- Hyde ParkThe largest of the central royal parks, with the Serpentine lake, swimming and the soapbox corner for speakers.Park
- Kew GardensBotanic gardens on the Thames with Victorian glasshouses, a treetop walkway and the world's largest seed collections.UNESCOPark
- Regent's ParkJohn Nash's park ringed by terraces, with a rose garden, an open-air theater and the zoo along its northern edge.Park
- Washington Square ParkGreenwich Village's square under a marble arch, public since 1827 and still the neighborhood's stage for musicians and chess players.Park
- Greenwich ParkA hilltop royal park above the old naval buildings, with the city skyline framed from the observatory terrace.UNESCOPark
- Hampstead HeathRough parkland in north London with swimming ponds and the view over the city from Parliament Hill.Nature
- Gülhane ParkThe outer garden of Topkapı, opened to the public and famous for its April tulips.Park
- Emirgan ParkThree restored pavilions among terraces that hold the city's largest tulip festival each April.Park
- Yıldız ParkThe wooded grounds of Abdülhamid II's palace, climbing steeply from the Bosphorus road.Park
- Belgrad ForestOak and beech woodland north of the city, threaded with Ottoman aqueducts and reservoirs.Park
- Gençlik ParkRepublican-era pleasure grounds around an artificial lake, laid out on drained marshland.Park