This vol­canic arch­i­pel­ago, with its spec­tac­u­lar land­scapes, is sit­u­at­ed off the coast of the Hebr…

If you’re a Bea­t­les fan, no trip to Lon­don is com­plete with­out vis­it­ing Abbey Road. Every year,…

West­min­ster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of impor­tant medieval remains, is a fi…

This rail­way bridge, cross­ing the Forth estu­ary in Scot­land, had the world‘s longest spans (541 m…

Edin­burgh has been the Scot­tish cap­i­tal since the 15th cen­tu­ry. It has two dis­tinct areas: the Ol…

Tow­er Bridge is a com­bined bas­cule and sus­pen­sion bridge in Lon­don built between 1886 and 1894. T…

The pre­his­toric mon­u­ment from more than 5,000 years ago is such a famous land­mark that peo­ple mig…

New Lanark is a small 18th- cen­tu­ry vil­lage set in a sub­lime Scot­tish land­scape where the phil­ant…

Hen­der­son Island, which lies in the east­ern South Pacif­ic, is one of the few atolls in the world …

The mas­sive White Tow­er is a typ­i­cal exam­ple of Nor­man mil­i­tary archi­tec­ture, whose influ­ence was…

Can­ter­bury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spir­i­tu­al head of the Church of Eng­land for near­ly …

The group of Neolith­ic mon­u­ments on Orkney con­sists of a large cham­bered tomb (Maes Howe), two ce…

The Giant‘s Cause­way lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the…

Durham Cathe­dral was built in the late 11th and ear­ly 12th cen­turies to house the relics of St Cu…

Iron­bridge is known through­out the world as the sym­bol of the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion. It con­tains …

In the 18th cen­tu­ry a designed land­scape of excep­tion­al beau­ty was cre­at­ed around the ruins of th…

The cas­tles of Beau­maris and Harlech (large­ly the work of the great­est mil­i­tary engi­neer of the t…

Found­ed by the Romans as a ther­mal spa, Bath became an impor­tant cen­tre of the wool indus­try in t…

The site, locat­ed in the south Atlantic, is one of the least-dis­rupt­ed island and marine ecosyste…

The ensem­ble of build­ings at Green­wich, an out­ly­ing dis­trict of Lon­don, and the park in which the…

The Town of St George, found­ed in 1612, is an out­stand­ing exam­ple of the ear­li­est Eng­lish urban s…

The area around Blae­navon is evi­dence of the pre-emi­nence of South Wales as the world‘s major pro…

Saltaire, West York­shire, is a com­plete and well-pre­served indus­tri­al vil­lage of the sec­ond half …