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We've compiled the best of the best in Bath and the Cotswolds - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This enlightening spot hosts interactive exhibits and displays to educate and inspire visitors about the history and heritage of Bath. It covers all the aspects that earned Bath its UNESCO World Heritage site status in 1987, including the hot springs, Roman ruins, Georgian architecture, and surrounding landscapes. The center also provides free walking trails and guides.
Acclaimed writer Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein (published in 1818), the world's first science fiction novel, while living in Bath, and this spot—although it's not the original house she lived in—has become one of Bath's spookiest attractions, combining a museum and an immersive experience in a historic house. Inside you'll find a Frankenstein-themed escape room (extra charge), a gruesome mystery to solve, and plenty of unusual artifacts and vintage items. It's not suitable for younger children.
Built in 1937, this knee-high model of Bourton-on-the-Water took five years to complete and is the only model village to have been given special historical status by English Heritage. It's a one-ninth scale model, and as you walk down its tiny lanes, you'll see how little has changed over the past decades. The small exhibition at Miniature World shows miniature scenes and rooms; some you can make come to life. Particularly entertaining is the model village within the model village, which, much like an infinity mirror, is perpetuated to an increasingly smaller scale. The Old New Inn owns the Model Village.
