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Cadbury World: enjoy a fun day trip to Cadbury World and attraction for all ages, which takes in various chocolate experiences.

Experience the Black Country of yesteryear as you explore over 250 years of history, from the Industrial Revolution to post-war prosperity, through living interpretation at Black Country Living Museum in Dudley in the West Midlands. Mind yer’ head as you go underground in a drift mine, get your toes tapping to 1950s vinyl and watch clay fly at Cricket Field Brickworks. Or perhaps take part in an Edwardian school lesson – but be careful not to get the cane, bab!

Birmingham's unique shopping mall with diverse high-street fashion, household shops and restaurants

The National Sea Life Centre is an aquarium with over 60 displays of freshwater and marine life in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. See giant green sea turtles, blacktip reef sharks and tropical reef fish, with the only fully transparent 360-degree underwater tunnel in the United Kingdom. The building was designed by Sir Norman Foster.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. The museum and gallery is run by Birmingham Museum Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city.

Dudley Zoological Gardens is a 40-acre zoo located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The Zoo contains 12 modernist animal enclosures and other buildings designed by the architect Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group. The zoo went into receivership in 1977 and was purchased by Dudley Metropolitan Council. Dudley Zoo is now operated by Dudley and West Midlands Zoological.

Thinktank, Birmingham is a science museum in Birmingham. Opened in 2001, it is part of Birmingham Museums Trust and is located within the Millennium Point complex on Curzon Street, Digbeth

The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are a 15-acre botanical garden situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The gardens are located 1 mile south-west of Birmingham city centre. Designed in 1829, the gardens are Grade II listed and retain many original features and layout, which was designed by the landscape gardener and horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon.