The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

Situated between Vyner Street and the Andrews Road gallery enclave, this Mare Street curiosity shop is both on the art circuit and determinedly off any beaten track. Peek through the windows and you’ll see a world in which velvet-cloaked Victorians, or perhaps The Mighty Boosh, might reside. Entering the shop, which is also the spiritual home of the esoterically minded Last Tuesday Society, reveals a wunderkammer of shells, skulls, taxidermy specimens and assorted oddities. Art gets a designated space in the first-floor gallery but, unsurprisingly, shows tend towards the eerily surreal. Its ground floor is home to a ‘pataphysical’ cocktail bar and absinthe parlour stocking the country’s largest curation of traditional absinthes, and where you can imbibe the ‘green goddess’ from an antique absinthe fountain. Don’t you just love a beverage with an elaborate ritual?