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London

United Kingdom · 10 quests

History

1 quest
Buckingham Palace, London🇬🇧 London
Buckingham Palace
A bomb hit the chapel, and a gallery replaced it

Art

5 quests
British Museum, London🇬🇧 London
British Museum
Eight million objects live in this building
National Gallery, London🇬🇧 London
National Gallery
It started with 38 paintings
British Library, London🇬🇧 London
British Library
Every UK book has to send a copy here
Royal Albert Hall, London🇬🇧 London
Royal Albert Hall
The queen changed its name at the last minute
Royal Opera House, London🇬🇧 London
Royal Opera House
Opera and ballet share the same house

Food

1 quest
Steak and kidney pudding, London🇬🇧 London
Steak and kidney pudding
It is steamed, not baked

Sport

2 quests
Emirates Stadium, London🇬🇧 London
Emirates Stadium
The club left its old ground in 2006
Royal St George's, London🇬🇧 London
Royal St George's
The Open first left Scotland for this course

Party

1 quest
Ministry of Sound, London🇬🇧 London
Ministry of Sound
The nightclub is only one part of it

United Kingdom

Photo quests in London

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

London holds ten quests across five categories, and Art is the largest group by some way: five of them against two for Sport. The categories with nothing in London so far are Nature and Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Royal Opera House. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other nine are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers five of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. The sport quests are venues, and a venue on a day with no fixture is a very large empty building — the calendar matters more than the opening hours. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the London quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in London the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near London

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in London

How many photo quests are there in London?
10, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (5) and Sport (2). Nothing in Nature and Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Buckingham Palace, British Museum and Steak and kidney pudding.
What is there to do in London beyond the obvious?
One of the 10 quests in London is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". London holds one at tier 1, four at tier 2 and five at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Royal Opera House, in Art.
Can you do all the London quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 10 is 107 km from the middle of the London list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which London quests can you do for free?
9 of the 10 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 10 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in London means one quest: Royal Opera House.
How do I prove I visited a place in London?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in London is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Buckingham Palace fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in London sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.