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!
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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…
London’s annual Cart Marking Ceremony
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a quirky annual ceremony in London, that you’ve probably never heard of…
Well Dressing in Derbyshire
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a traditional custom that takes place every year throughout the villages and towns of Derbyshire…
Murals in Morecambe
Our latest Curiosity of the Week features a street of outdoor art in Morecambe, tucked away from the cheesy delights of the seafront…
Wimborne’s Chained Library
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is one of the oldest and most unusual libraries in the country. The Chained Library at Wimborne Minster in Dorset was founded in 1686 and is the second largest library of its kind in the country…
A room full of clocks in Lincolnshire
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an installation of more than 2,000 clocks in Lincolnshire. This unusual creation, titled Harrison’s Garden, is the brainchild of artist Luke Jerram, and can currently be found at the National Trust’s Gunby Hall…
The Heritage Museum hidden in a hardware store
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a wonderful little museum in Cockermouth, Cumbria. This hidden gem can be found in the traditional hardware store, J.B. Banks and Son at Market Place…
An unusual treehouse at Croome
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual treehouse in Worcestershire. The treehouse, wrapped around the bottom of a cedar tree at Croome, was created by artist Chris Alton for the National Trust…
Mistley Towers
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a pair of unusual towers, located in Mistley, Essex. The towers wouldn’t look out of place at St Paul’s Cathedral, but they can in fact be found standing out amongst some unassuming gravestones…
The Headington Shark
If you head along a road in Oxford, where an unassuming row of brick houses stand, you might see something rather unusual… a large shark diving into the roof of one of the houses…
First Footing
As it is New Year, for our latest Curiosity of the Week we are looking at the tradition of First Footing, and why it is carried out in the UK…
Boxing Day
It’s Christmas, so what would be more appropriate for our Curiosity of the Week than the tradition of Boxing Day itself?