diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 522155c10..a39fab744 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ All Notable changes to `League\Uri` will be documented in this file
 - `Uri::toUnixPath` returns the URI path as a Unix Path or `null`
 - `Uri::toWindowsPath` returns the URI path as a Windows Path or `null`
 - `Uri::toRfc8089` return the URI in a RFC8089 formator `null`
+- `Uri::toAnchor` returns the HTML anchor string using the instance as the href attribute value
+- `Uri::toMarkdown` returns the markdown link construct using the instance as the href attribute value
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/Uri.php b/Uri.php
index ee437ceb4..32398b8b7 100644
--- a/Uri.php
+++ b/Uri.php
@@ -14,11 +14,14 @@
 namespace League\Uri;
 
 use Deprecated;
+use DOMDocument;
+use DOMException;
 use finfo;
 use League\Uri\Contracts\Conditionable;
 use League\Uri\Contracts\UriComponentInterface;
 use League\Uri\Contracts\UriException;
 use League\Uri\Contracts\UriInterface;
+use League\Uri\Contracts\UriStringProvider;
 use League\Uri\Exceptions\ConversionFailed;
 use League\Uri\Exceptions\MissingFeature;
 use League\Uri\Exceptions\SyntaxError;
@@ -75,7 +78,7 @@
  * @phpstan-import-type ComponentMap from UriString
  * @phpstan-import-type InputComponentMap from UriString
  */
-final class Uri implements UriInterface, Conditionable
+final class Uri implements UriInterface, Conditionable, UriStringProvider
 {
     /**
      * RFC3986 invalid characters.
@@ -1039,6 +1042,42 @@ public function toDisplayString(): string
         return UriString::build($components);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the HTML string representation of the anchor tag with the current instance as its href attribute.
+     *
+     * @throws DOMException
+     */
+    public function toAnchorTag(?string $content = null, ?string $class = null, ?string $target = null): string
+    {
+        $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
+        $doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
+        $doc->formatOutput = true;
+        $anchor = $doc->createElement('a');
+        $anchor->setAttribute('href', $this->toString());
+        if (null !== $class) {
+            $anchor->setAttribute('class', $class);
+        }
+        if (null !== $target) {
+            $anchor->setAttribute('target', $target);
+        }
+
+        $anchor->appendChild($doc->createTextNode($content ?? $this->toDisplayString()));
+        $anchor = $doc->saveHTML($anchor);
+        if (false === $anchor) {
+            throw new DOMException('The link generation failed.');
+        }
+
+        return $anchor;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the markdown string representation of the anchor tag with the current instance as its href attribute.
+     */
+    public function toMarkdown(?string $content = null): string
+    {
+        return '['.($content ?? $this->toDisplayString()).']('.$this->toString().')';
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the Unix filesystem path.
      *
@@ -1208,9 +1247,9 @@ public function getFragment(): ?string
         return $this->fragment;
     }
 
-    public function getOrigin(): ?self
+    public function getOrigin(): ?string
     {
-        return null === $this->origin ? null : Uri::new($this->origin);
+        return $this->origin;
     }
 
     public function when(callable|bool $condition, callable $onSuccess, ?callable $onFail = null): static
@@ -1429,7 +1468,7 @@ public function isCrossOrigin(UriInterface|Stringable|string $uri): bool
             return true;
         }
 
-        return $this->origin !== (string) $origin;
+        return $this->origin !== $origin;
     }
 
     public function isSameOrigin(Stringable|string $uri): bool
diff --git a/UriTest.php b/UriTest.php
index 44564b627..587eca4d5 100644
--- a/UriTest.php
+++ b/UriTest.php
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ public static function sameValueAsProvider(): array
     #[DataProvider('getOriginProvider')]
     public function testGetOrigin(Psr7UriInterface|Uri|string $uri, ?string $expectedOrigin): void
     {
-        self::assertSame($expectedOrigin, Uri::new($uri)->getOrigin()?->toString());
+        self::assertSame($expectedOrigin, Uri::new($uri)->getOrigin());
     }
 
     public static function getOriginProvider(): array
@@ -981,4 +981,95 @@ public static function providesUriToDisplay(): iterable
             'output' => 'http://bébé.be',
         ];
     }
+
+    #[Test]
+    #[DataProvider('providesUriToMarkdown')]
+    public function it_will_generate_the_markdown_code_for_the_instance(string $uri, ?string $content, string $expected): void
+    {
+        self::assertSame($expected, Uri::new($uri)->toMarkdown($content));
+    }
+
+    public static function providesUriToMarkdown(): iterable
+    {
+        yield 'empty string' => [
+            'uri' => '',
+            'content' => '',
+            'expected' => '[]()',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI with a specific content' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://example.com/foo/bar',
+            'content' => 'this is a link',
+            'expected' => '[this is a link](http://example.com/foo/bar)',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI without content' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://Bébé.be',
+            'content' => null,
+            'expected' => '[http://bébé.be](http://xn--bb-bjab.be)',
+        ];
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    #[DataProvider('providesUriToHTML')]
+    public function it_will_generate_the_html_code_for_the_instance(
+        string $uri,
+        ?string $content,
+        ?string $class,
+        ?string $target,
+        string $expected
+    ): void {
+        self::assertSame($expected, Uri::new($uri)->toAnchorTag($content, $class, $target));
+    }
+
+    public static function providesUriToHTML(): iterable
+    {
+        yield 'empty string' => [
+            'uri' => '',
+            'content' => '',
+            'class' => null,
+            'target' => null,
+            'expected' => '<a href=""></a>',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI with a specific content' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://example.com/foo/bar',
+            'content' => 'this is a link',
+            'class' => null,
+            'target' => null,
+            'expected' => '<a href="http://example.com/foo/bar">this is a link</a>',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI without content' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://Bébé.be',
+            'content' => null,
+            'class' => null,
+            'target' => null,
+            'expected' => '<a href="http://xn--bb-bjab.be">http://bébé.be</a>',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI without content and with class' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://Bébé.be',
+            'content' => null,
+            'class' => 'foo bar',
+            'target' => null,
+            'expected' => '<a href="http://xn--bb-bjab.be" class="foo bar">http://bébé.be</a>',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI without content and with target' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://Bébé.be',
+            'content' => null,
+            'class' => null,
+            'target' => '_blank',
+            'expected' => '<a href="http://xn--bb-bjab.be" target="_blank">http://bébé.be</a>',
+        ];
+
+        yield 'URI without content, with target and class' => [
+            'uri' => 'http://Bébé.be',
+            'content' => null,
+            'class' => 'foo bar',
+            'target' => '_blank',
+            'expected' => '<a href="http://xn--bb-bjab.be" class="foo bar" target="_blank">http://bébé.be</a>',
+        ];
+    }
 }
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e1c4be3e9..d88b63436 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
         "league/uri-schemes": "^1.0"
     },
     "suggest": {
+        "ext-dom": "to convert the URI into an HTML anchor tag",
         "ext-bcmath": "to improve IPV4 host parsing",
         "ext-fileinfo": "to create Data URI from file contennts",
         "ext-gmp": "to improve IPV4 host parsing",