Location: Caernarfon, Northern Wales
What’s the damage? Adult £5.10
Caernarfon is Wales’s most celebrated castle and a World Heritage site. You can see why – built, as it is, on a truly commanding scale, designed to leave the rebellious Welsh in no doubt as to who was boss back in the 13th century. Its polygonal towers and intimidating battlements loom over the walled town below.
Constructed as the final chapter in Edward I’s conquest of Wales, the fortress also served as his palace and seat of government.
Location: Cambridgeshire, Eastern England
What’s the damage? Adult £16
The rip-roaring Imperial War Museum at Duxford, just south of Cambridge, is a magnet to aeroplane-obsessed kids, Biggles-raised grown-ups and misty-eyed grandparents.
Europe's biggest aviation museum, it is home to around 200 winged war machines, from dive-bombers to biplanes and Spitfire to Concorde.
The enormous airfield around which its vast hangars are spread played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain, during the second world war.
No surprise, then, that Duxford airshows are reckoned the most spectacular in Europe, if not the world.
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
What’s the damage? Free
Recently reopened following years of restoration, the Kelvingrove is Scotland’s top museum and gallery, chock-a-block with famous names and fascinating artefacts. Dali, Botticelli, Monet and Van Gogh are all represented in the gallery – deemed by experts to be one of the best civic art collections in Europe. And the gallery’s stash of weapons, armoury and natural history is also rated as one of the best in the country.
But best of all – entry is free. Little wonder, then, that this is one of the most-visited museums in Britain outside London.
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