Ah, Reddit – a vast and fascinating place full of niche interests, crazy confessions, weird conspiracy theories and much, much more. Whatever question you have, you can probably find the answer on one of its many, many forums. And if it’s travel recommendations you’re after, Reddit has that in droves.
In the past week or so members of r/CasualUK have been discussing their favourite architecture across the country. The original poster asked which UK buildings people should visit at least once. Of course, the people of Reddit delivered.
OP kicked the conversation off with a shoutout to Lincoln Cathedral. They said: ‘The sheer size of it was the initial thing that struck me, and then as I got closer the intricacies of the stone work drew me in.’
After that, the most upvoted recommendation in the thread is the Natural History Museum, which users called a ‘cathedral of science’, a ‘masterpiece’ and ‘so rad’. It got 2.9k votes of approval.
Some recommendations are a little more questionable. The thread’s second most popular response? ‘Big Tesco’. It’s not specified exactly which big Tesco you should see before you die but one user responded ‘the one in Slough is breathtaking’, while several others shouted out the one in Walkden, Greater Manchester. Each to their own, we guess.
York Minster, which one user hailed as ‘so enormous but so delicately made it looks like it's floating’, was the third most popular suggestion with 922 upvotes. St Pancras Renaissance hotel ranked fourth with 574 votes (although that costs at least £200 a night) followed by the neo-Gothic John Rylands Library in Manchester.
Other architecture to get mentioned included Salisbury Cathedral, the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Hampton Court Palace.
It’s not strictly a building, but Cornwall’s weirdly popular Bude Tunnel, a 70m perspex structure that links Bude Sainsbury’s to its car park and is ranked on TripAdvisor as one of the UK’s best free tourist attractions. One commenter called it a ‘truly life-changing experience’.
See the rest of the recommendations here.
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