Greater Manchester Police Museum & Archives

"lonely planet: One of the city's best-kept secrets is this superb museum (0161-856 4500; www.gmpmuseum.co.uk; 57a Newton St: 10.30am-3.30pm Tue) FREE housed within a former Victorian police station. The original building has been magnif icently if a little creepily - brought back to life, and you can wander in and out of 19th-century cells where pris oners rested their heads on wooden pillows, visit a restored magistrates' court from 1895 and examine the case histories (complete with mugshots and photos of weapons) of some of the more notorious names to have passed through its doors."