Oddities & curiosities in Boise

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Boise? These 9 are the genuinely strange ones — Crone's Cupboard, State Street Antiques, Rusty Retro Antiques & Oddities 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 Boise they'd never find on their own.

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Crone's Cupboard Boise's oldest practicing New Age and witchcraft shop, founded in 1994 by a Wicca teacher who literally start… Boise
State Street Antiques What looks like a tidy 25-vendor antique mall hides a surprising streak of the macabre: an entire set of ratt… Boise
Rusty Retro Antiques & Oddities Three rooms crammed with more than 10,000 ever-rotating items, leaning hard into the odd and the unsettling.… Nampa
Born Weird Tattoo & Free Museum Idaho's self-proclaimed largest tattoo and piercing studio doubles as a free, no-appointment curiosity museum… Boise
Basque Museum & Cultural Center (Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House) Boise holds one of the densest Basque populations outside the homeland straddling Spain and France, and this… Downtown Boise (the Basque Block)
Erma Hayman House A modest preserved home turned tiny historic-house museum honoring Erma Hayman, who lived here for decades, a… Boise (River Street neighborhood)
Giant Garden Gnome at North End Organic Nursery An organic plant nursery on busy Chinden Boulevard installed a decorative garden gnome statue around 2019, a… Garden City
Lawson's Emu-Z-Um (Lawson's Legacy Museum) A sprawling private museum about 60 miles south of Boise that grew from four rooms into more than 50, each cr… Grand View
Idaho's Mammoth Cave & Shoshone Bird Museum of Natural History A classic high-desert roadside stop eight miles north of Shoshone on Highway 75, where a self-guided lava-tub… Shoshone