We bring you some quirky ideas on how to spend your alternative (or anti) Valentine’s Day at home, with dark tales and clandestine cabaret…
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Interactive game creates a Tudor Palace Palaver
This half term, head back in time to the Tudor era for a family-friendly event with a difference…
Take a ride through history at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we thought we’d bring you a bit of cheery escapism in the form of fairground rides!
How to celebrate Burns Night at home
We bring you some quirky and creative ideas on how to celebrate Burns Night at home. From online bagpipe lessons to virtual whisky tasting…
Normanton Church, a waterside wonder
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…
Find some New Year inspiration with a virtual London tour
This January, head online to discover more about our capital city with a range of alternative and quirky virtual London tours…
Take some unusual and virtual walks around London
This December, Footprints of London are hosting festive and alternative walks around the capital, both virtually and in person…
Pop-up festive theatre and live-streamed carols
Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College will be helping visitors get into the Christmas spirit with pop-up festive theatre and live-streamed carols…
Paisley Museum’s hidden gems ready for display
Discover Paisley’s Secret Collection and it’s 2000 year-old link to Syria through a unique glass display…
Being Human festival invites you for a cultural cuppa
This November, join Being Human festival’s virtual talks, tours, quizzes, exhibitions, storytelling, and virtual cafés…
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…
Blood, guts and cabbages this Halloween
This Halloween, don’t let kids have all the fun. Edinburgh’s Surgeons’ Hall Museums will host some gut wrenching events, perfect for adults…
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 haunting Halloween Late in Greenwich
Expect late night tales and terrifying yarns as the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich host their first Halloween Late…
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’…