Clifton Suspension Bridge
Brunel's suspension bridge over the Avon Gorge, opened on 8 December 1864, five years after his death. Walking or cycling across costs nothing, motorists pay a £1 contactless toll, and a free visitor centre on the Leigh Woods side shows how it was built.
SS Great Britain
The ship Brunel designed, launched in 1843 as the world's largest passenger ship and one of the first iron, propeller-driven ocean liners. She now sits in the Great Western Dockyard on Gas Ferry Road, on a glass 'sea', beside the Being Brunel museum. The site is open Tuesday to Sunday.
Wills Memorial Building
The University of Bristol's Gothic tower on Queen's Road, 215 feet tall. Building began in 1915, was interrupted by the First World War, and King George V and Queen Mary opened it on 9 June 1925. The bell Great George hangs in the octagonal belfry at the top. It is a working university building, so you mostly see it from outside.
The Floating Harbour
The old docks at the heart of the city. William Jessop's scheme, opened on 1 May 1809, dammed the Avon and sent the tide round the New Cut, so the water in the city docks stays at one level. The harbour runs from Hotwells in the west to Netham Lock in the east, and the harbourside is where the museums and the SS Great Britain are.
Cabot Tower
Outdoors
A 105-foot (32-metre) stone tower on Brandon Hill, built between June 1897 and July 1898 to mark 400 years since John Cabot sailed from Bristol. Climbing it costs nothing.
M Shed
A free museum of Bristol's own story in a converted 1950s transit shed at Princes Wharf, on the harbourside. Banksy's Grim Reaper, painted on the hull of the Thekla, is now kept here. Donations are welcome and some temporary exhibitions need a ticket.
St Nicholas Market
Indoors
The covered market on Corn Street, in the Exchange building by John Wood the Elder, built between 1741 and 1743 and listed Grade II*. Outside stand the Nails, the bronze pillars where merchants once settled their deals, which gave us the phrase 'pay on the nail'. Inside are the Glass Arcade and the Covered Market, with street food and independent stalls.