Trip: Solo UK + France by Train

According to tradition, Selby Abbey was the earliest Benedictine monastery in the north of England, founded in 1069. Today it is a Grade-I listed parish church featuring Norman and Decorated Gothic architecture and 14C stained glass.

The Circus is a ring of elegant townhouses in Bath, England. Designed by architect John Wood the Elder and completed in 1768, it is a Grade I listed building and regarded as a preeminent example of Georgian architecture.

The red-brick terrace house at 9 Newcastle Road in Liverpool was the childhood home of John Lennon from his birth in 1940 until the age of 5 or 6. It sold at auction for £480,000 in 2013.

Castle Howard is a Baroque country house with extensive landscaped gardens, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor for the Earl of Carlisle. It is still occupied by the owners but is open to the public.

Occupying seven Georgian terrace houses on Queen Square in the heart of Bath, the Francis Hotel combines Regency-inspired boutique interiors (2012) with a Grade I listed building (1736, John Wood the Elder).

One of the “Three Graces” on Liverpool's waterfront, the Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building completed in 1910.

Housed in a striking modern building (2011) on Liverpool's waterfront, the Museum of Liverpool displays collections from over 10,000 years of local history. Admission is free.

8-20 Great Pulteney Street in Bath is a Grade I listed building consisting of 12 terrace houses built 1789-95 by Thomas Baldwin, John Eveleigh, and others.