Edinburgh Castle has been voted as the top UK heritage attraction for the second consecutive year.

BBC: Edinburgh Castle 'best heritage attraction'

It was then handed over to a new charitable trust, The Auckland Castle Trust, who have redeveloped the site into a heritage tourist attraction.

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The Texas Wendish Heritage Museum serves as an attraction for tourists and hallowed ground for some locals.

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Just outside of Johannesburg is an amazing historical attraction, the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site with its famous fossil filled caves.

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English Heritage, which advised the on the listing, said the attraction was thought to be the second ever built in the UK, the first being Bekonscot at Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.

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The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland's top tourist attraction with 750, 000 visitors a year, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco in 1986.

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