Leeds Art Gallery

This major gallery is packed with 19th- and 20th-century British heavyweights – Turner, Constable, Stanley Spencer, Wyndham Lewis et al – along with contemporary pieces by more recent arrivals such as Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley, sculptor of the Angel of the North. The stunning Tiled Hall Cafe – formerly a reading room and then a sculpture court – is the city's most elegant spot for a break.