England
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A quiet Shropshire valley where a Quaker ironmaster’s furnace and the world’s first iron bridge quietly launched the Industrial Revolution — Ironbridge Gorge is Britain’s founding UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Step inside a recreated Cavern Club, cross Abbey Road’s zebra crossing and follow four Liverpool lads from the Casbah to the world stage — The Beatles Story is Liverpool’s essential Beatles museum.
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A 70-metre wall of white limestone carved by a waterfall that vanished thousands of years ago and, for a few hours in 2015, briefly came back.
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A hill that was once a genuine island, crowned by a roofless tower, said to hide the gateway to the Celtic underworld and the resting place of a king who may never have existed.
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A 200-tonne steel figure that half the country hated before it went up, built on the site of a coal mine, that ended up saving Gateshead’s cultural reputation.
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London’s longest legal graffiti wall, born from a three-day Banksy festival in 2008 — and repainted so often nothing you see today will last.
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A Wren steeple, a bombed-out nave, and fifty years of ivy — one of the City’s most photographed ruins costs nothing to visit.
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170,000 burials, an Egyptian-revival avenue, and Karl Marx’s grave — a Victorian cemetery that spent decades being quietly reclaimed by nature.
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62 ordinary people who died saving strangers, remembered on 54 tiles in a City garden most visitors walk straight past.
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A free museum with an Egyptian pharaoh’s sarcophagus in the basement, kept by law exactly as its architect owner left it in 1837.