The intriguingly named Strangeways - officially HM Prison Manchester since the 1990s - owes its fame to the Smiths' 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come and...
1 Southall StreetGet 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;...
KnutsfordAlfred Waterhouse's building, completed in 1887, remains a proud symbol of the city. Its imposing halls, host to a range of statuary, city council staff and...
Albert Square
This sprawling academic complex is one of the country's largest educational establishments. Amid the beautiful collection of red-brick buildings and theatre...
Oxford RoadThe winner of the BBC's Restoration programme in 2003, Victoria Baths is finally approaching a functional state after around £4.5 million-worth of...
Hathersage RoadSigns of its former splendour remain - the lovely tiled map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on the entrance walls, the wood-panelled ticket offices...
Todd Street
This all-new centre provides a 21st-century means of finding out about Manchester: interactive maps, touch-screen panels and live Twitter feeds supply...
Piccadilly Plaza
The Whitworth has undergone something of a revolution of late. A new director has shaken up the old institution, fusing a rich, historic collection (of...
Oxford Road
Many of Wythenshaw Hall's original Tudor timbers - it was built in 1540 - survived a Parliamentarian assault when it held out as a Royalist stronghold...
Wythenshawe Park