Oddities & curiosities in Austin
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Austin? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Museum of the Weird, Martinez Brothers Taxidermists, Yarrow & Sage and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Austin they'd never find on their own.
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Museum of the Weird
Housed inside Lucky Lizard Curios and Gifts, three floors hold shrunken heads, a Fiji mermaid, a taxidermied…
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Martinez Brothers Taxidermists
A hand-painted jaguar sign has marked the corner of Oltorf and South Lamar since Alex Martinez Sr. opened thi…
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Yarrow & Sage
Billed by its owners as 'Austin's only magical mini business park,' the North Loop storefront packs a spiritu…
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Curia Arcanum's House of Curiosities
A South Congress curio shop billing itself 'The Mystically Macabre Curio for the Curious & Odd,' open only th…
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The Herb Bar
Austin's original apothecary and metaphysical shop, open continuously since 1986 and passed down through a li…
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The Antique Mule
An East Austin antique shop built around oddities and curios — Inuit carvings, religious santos, Ouija boards…