Your travel4seniors.com editor recently toured the venerable British capital city and captured this impressive scene. Built in 2012, The Shard is an enormous steel and glass business, hotel and retail image rising above the banks of the Thames River.

Below it is HMS Belfast, a veteran Royal Navy cruiser of many World War II battles, now a floating museum. Facing The Shard from across the river is the Tower of London, built in 1066, and we all know what happened there.