This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.