A grand Edwardian building, the Bury Art Gallery is worth a visit to see founder Thomas Wrigley's collection of 200 or so artworks, including paintings by...

Anyone familiar with the UK's swelling ranks of indoor ski slopes knows that they can be far from atmospheric - more akin to sliding around a refrigerated...

Donated to the public by Alderman Moss in 1914, these lovely gardens - stretching across some 21 acres in the suburbs - are notable for their rare plant...

Proudly describing itself as 'the UK's only museum devoted solely to the hatting industry', Hatworks is a quaint experience, displaying machinery and...

Nestled in the foothills of the Pennines, Heaton Park is one of Europe's largest municipal parks. It contains eight English Heritage listed buildings, a...

Run by volunteers, this small but lovely museum is housed in an old tram shelter, from which restored vehicles run all year. The original system fell into...

Surely Manchester's most striking building of the past decade, the brain-boggling design of the museum is based on star architect Daniel Libeskind's concept...

This ivy-clad, red-brick house is family run and prides itself on its friendly welcome and its peaceful Sale location. Accommodation options are flexible,...

A long way from the grimly functional mill buildings so often captured by its eponymous subject and raison d'être, the Lowry marked a tipping point for the...

Practice your belaying and leading in this Grade-II listed church, which now houses one of the largest climbing walls in Europe. Hang around under the huge...

Two halls house over a century's worth of lovingly restored public transport history; the collection is one of the largest of its kind. The timeline starts...

The stadium of the world's most famous football team may not be in the most glamorous of locations, but it nevertheless has the Premier League's largest...

A place like this could probably only work in Didsbury - the flashy, moneyed part of Manchester - as it appeals to mothers who don't believe in cheap and...

Get lost in the Cheshire countryside in this 1,000-acre park with free-roaming deer, lakes and a farm. A walled garden has fruit trees and fig houses;...