Oddities & curiosities in Butte
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Butte? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Under the Gallus Frame Antique Mall & Mercantile, Hell Roarin' Gulch at the World Museum of Mining, Mineral Museum at Montana Tech 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 Butte they'd never find on their own.
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Under the Gallus Frame Antique Mall & Mercantile
Tucked into the historic Uptown Butte Events Center, this multi-vendor mall packs a rotating maze of stalls f…
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Hell Roarin' Gulch at the World Museum of Mining
Built on the grounds of the still-standing Orphan Girl mine, this museum surrounds a meticulous recreation of…
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Mineral Museum at Montana Tech
Two floors of cases hold around 1,300 specimens drawn from a collection topping 15,000, but the oddities are…
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Butte's Headframes (Gallows Frames)
About a dozen tall black steel skeletons loom over Uptown Butte, the preserved hoist towers of the mines that…
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Elkhorn Ghost Town (Elkhorn State Park)
Montana's smallest state park is just two preserved 1890s buildings, Fraternity Hall and Gilliam Hall, standi…
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Bannack State Park
Montana's first territorial capital and the best-preserved ghost town in the state, with over fifty original…