Places David Stephenson Wants to Go

Since 2017, the remains of Stretford's industrial past have been occupied by a collection of gnomes.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

This bronze statue stands throughout the year and illustrates an urgent message about the environment.

The longest sculpture trail in the United Kingdom.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Paul McCartney, Joy Division, and many others created era-defining music at this former recording studio.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Remembering the 72 passengers who lost their lives in 1967 airplane wreck.

Opened in 1932, this theater in Stockport's Mersey Square is a bonafide Art-Deco gem.

The river that gave its name to a 1960s musical movement has a rather inauspicious starting point in town outside of Manchester.

The oldest known metal-mining site in England dates back to the Bronze Age.