Museums in the United Kingdom

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A rare example of the RAF’s flying spy taxi.

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

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

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

A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses.

A small literary museum remembers the life and works of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.