North England
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England’s second-largest inhabited castle, home to the same family for over 700 years, a genuine Wars of the Roses battleground, and — for a certain generation — the unmistakable exterior of Hogwarts itself.
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Britain’s longest show cave, discovered by a Cambridge student following the sound of an underground waterfall, and not fully opened up until Cornish tin miners finished the job seventy years later.
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England’s most powerful waterfall, still slowly eating its way upstream through 700 metres of gorge it has carved since the last Ice Age.
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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 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.