Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…
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A presidential garden hidden in the UK
Here we are again, with another slightly topical Curiosity of the Week. As we’ve been gripped by the US Elections, we decided to focus on an unusual link between the UK and USA for our latest curiosity.
Have you seen a Witch Mark?
We’re carrying on with our spooky Halloween theme for Curiosity of the Week, by taking a look at Apotropaic Marks…
Take a wander under The Dark Hedges
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a spooky treat, just in time for Halloween. A rather eerie and unusual avenue of beech trees…
A unique musical sculpture in Lancashire
Following on from last week’s rather touching sculpture, we bring you an altogether different kind of sculpture for our latest Curiosity of the Week…
Widows and Bairns look out to sea
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual and touching sculpture, commemorating the 1881 fishing disaster known as ‘Black Friday’…
A beautiful way to pump out poop
Our latest Curiosity of the Week might cause a bit of a stink! We’re taking a look at the Victorian wonder that is Crossness Pumping Station…
A little Somerset street with a big claim
For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we take you to the cathedral city of Wells in Somerset. Come with us to Vicars’ Close…
Watch out for grave robbers in Scotland
We’re back with our Curiosity of the Week slot, and this week we visit an unusual hut on a coastal nature reserve in Scotland…
Visit a Venetian Waterway in Norfolk
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a Venetian style waterway in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth…
A building shaped like a cash register in Manchester
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusually-shaped art deco building in Stretford, Manchester…
Orkney’s Italian Chapel
For our latest Curiosity of the Week we are heading over to Orkney to discover a rather unusual piece of history…an Italian Chapel made from Nissen huts and a shipwreck!
A la Ronde in Devon
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusually shaped building in Devon. A la Ronde is a quirky 18th century, 16 sided house, with a fascinating interior…
Bedale Medicinal Leech House
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual little building that looks like a castellated folly from the outside, but was actually built to store leeches…
Scotland’s Burryman
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a unique custom in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, that involves a man covered in sticky burrs…