Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This cauldron was said to be hidden inside a church after it was borrowed from a local witch.

This mysterious chalk figure of a horse has been recreated and restored for more than a century.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.