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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Travel
Martin Winter

Top UK tourist hotspots made famous by pop culture - including Abbey Road

Abbey Road in London, Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, and Princes Street in Edinburgh, are among the top UK tourist hotspots – because of their links to iconic pieces of pop culture.

The unassuming zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios in north-west London has become synonymous with the album cover of The Beatles' 1969 album, Abbey Road, which featured the Fab Four walking over it.

Meanwhile, the striking rocky basalt columns that make up the Giant's Causeway, on the northern tip of Northern Ireland, is a popular site for Led Zeppelin fans, as the album cover of the band's 1973 album, Houses of the Holy.

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