What are some interesting events/experiences that you’ve attended and enjoyed?

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I’m looking for some unusual experiences to attend. I don’t mean kinky btw(Not my thing) but things like immersive theatre, unusual dining experiences, strange museums, weird tours etc. I’m happy to travel anywhere in the UK.

TIA

There is a ghost walk around York in the evening

I saw The Handmaid's Tale, the Opera, and loved it.
I thought it was a play when I bought the ticket!

Thames Rockets, speedboat down the Thames, it's so much fun.

There's a new place opened nearby where you pay to take a sledgehammer to various items. Then they clean up all the mess.
Adult DS went and enjoyed it. He commented that it was cheaper than therapy.

Tour of Queen Street Mill, Burnley

Thanks everyone. These all sound great.

Dennis Severs House in Spitalfields, London might float your boat.

Also, have you had a rummage around on the Atlas Obscura website to self guided bolt-ons in places you might go?

https://www.atlasobscura.com

We saw a theatrical production of A Christmas Carol in Peterborough Cathedral last year.

Twist Museum in London - optical illusions.

We did a murder mystery night a while back at a hotel in Stratford Upon Avon , my son bought it as a Christmas present for us . We loved it, sat with a bunch of strangers and we got really involved . Great night !

Backstage/technical tour of the royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford upon Avon, at 8.15am before the theatre opens to the public

Phantom Peak (Canada Water, London)

https://phantompeak.com

I recently took my children to The Twist Museum in Oxford Circus. It isn't just for children though. I loved it just as much as them! It's is full of really cool optical illusions. We had so much fun there and it was like no where else we have visited. I would definitely recommend!

London Dungeons was the best immersive experience we’ve done.

British Fireworks Championships held in Plymouth in August.

Bridgwater Carnival, Somerset early November.

Wake the Tiger in Bristol. Markets it's self and an amazment park. It's an immersive installation of surreal and bizarre.

Slept at the Natural History Museum in London. It was a great experience. I did it with DC1 at an event for 7-11 year olds but they do adults only events too. You arrive after 6 with sleeping bags, do activities including a torch-lit treasure hunt in the dinosaur exhibit, have a not quite midnight snack, do another activity and then it’s bedtime, you don’t get much sleep because you’re in the entrance hall under the whale skeleton on thin mats on the concrete floor with lots of other people, in the morning you get breakfast and you get to start looking round the museum before everyone else gets there. Exhausting but amazing. This was 7 years ago so it might have changed.
I have also slept under the skeleton of Dippy the diplodocus in Coventry museum in a similar but less expensive experience, because DC2 didn’t want to go to London. That was just as good.