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

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

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

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

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.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

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.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

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

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.