One of the great medieval castles built by Edward I to conquer Wales, completed in 1287, with eight huge towers and almost complete town walls that you can walk along. Climb the towers for views over the estuary and the mountains of Snowdonia.
It's part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Caernarfon, Harlech and Beaumaris castles. In the town, see Plas Mawr, an Elizabethan townhouse, and the 'smallest house in Great Britain' on the quay.
One of the first road suspension bridges in the world, built by Thomas Telford in 1826 with turrets to match Conwy Castle beside it.
One of the great gardens of Britain, above the Conwy valley with views to the mountains of Snowdonia (Eryri).
A vast neo-Norman castle built in the early 1800s for the Pennant family, whose wealth came from Jamaican sugar plantations and Welsh slate quarries.
The home of the Marquesses of Anglesey, on the shore of the Menai Strait with views to the mountains of Snowdonia (Eryri).
The highest mountain in Wales, 1,085 m, in Snowdonia (Eryri) National Park.
Liverpool city centre's oldest building, a Queen Anne-style former charity school built in 1717, and now the UK's oldest arts centre.
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