Museums are boring! Oh, no they're not, at least not when they show us all sorts of wonderful objects, and tell us fascinating tales of people in history. Dig a bit deeper in any museum and you will find a treasure store of weird and wonderful items, collected by some kind soul in the past and now available for our enjoyment

Where can you see a rat curled up in a human skull? In Salisbury Museum. William Longspee, Earl of Salisbury died in 1227. When his tomb was opened in 1791, a dried Black Rat was found inside his skull. It seems the rat died of arsenic poisoning, just like Earl William.

Fascinated by witchcraft? Perhaps it's the mystery, fear of the unknown or the fairy-tale romance? The Museum of Witchcraft will convince you that witches did exist and still do. Here is the world's largest collection of spells, charms, curses, paintings, woodcuts and witches working tools.

Psst! Want to be a phrenologist? North Devon Museum is the place to find out. Phrenologists studied shape and size of the human head, believing you could then understand somebody's character and level of intelligence. See some heads and meet the Amsterdam Idiot and the Eminent Divine.

Feel the chill as no less than three ghosts wander the corridors of 800-year old Torre Abbey! There's an 18th century lady, and a "Spanish Lady", seeking her lost-love amongst Armada troops imprisoned here. Oldest ghost is a headless monk from the abbey.... watch out for severed heads!

In Gloucester Folk Museum, see part of the stake at which Protestant Bishop Hooper was supposedly burned, and the wooden cheese from Cooper's Hill cheese rolling. On the Dymock Curse read about Sarah Ellis, spelt backwards, the good and evil spirits of the moon, mystical number 369, and much more!