Visit Liverpool

Visit Manchester, a city in northwest England with industrial heritage and modern culture. Explore the Science and Industry Museum (housed in the world's oldest passenger railway station), see a match at Old Trafford (home of Manchester United Football Club), wander the Northern Quarter (known for its street art and independent shops), and visit the John Rylands Library (a neo-Gothic building with rare manuscripts).

Banksy's home town: a harbour city of street art, the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain in dry dock.

The pebble beach, the Palace Pier and the Royal Pavilion, an Indian-style palace built for a Regency prince.

Seven bridges over the Tyne, the Georgian curve of Grey Street and the friendliest nightlife in the north.

Britain's second city has more canal miles than Venice, the Balti Triangle and Peaky Blinders' Black Country next door.

The cathedral where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims.

A Norman cathedral and castle on a rock in a loop of the River Wear, the finest Romanesque building in Europe.

Victorian arcades, the Royal Armouries and the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.