Oddities & curiosities in Dallas
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Dallas? These 12 are the genuinely strange ones — Curiosities Antiques, Pinned Ptera, Cheerleader 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 Dallas they'd never find on their own.
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Curiosities Antiques
An indoor flea-market-meets-cabinet-of-wonders out by White Rock Lake, where the inventory runs to taxidermy,…
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Pinned Ptera
An ethical insect-taxidermy studio-shop run by Morgan and Micah Loftin, with a neon sign and a goal of buildi…
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Cheerleader
A contemporary art gallery run by Brent Birnbaum inside a corrugated metal shack surrounded by steel manufact…
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Curious Garden
A quiet natural-history 'wonder cabinet' that started as a garden-antiques store and drifted toward fossils,…
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Dolly on Bishop
The lesser-known Oak Cliff sibling of vintage emporium Dolly Python, carrying old photos, taxidermy, folk art…
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Dolly Python
A 3,800-sq-ft vintage emporium with dedicated taxidermy, postmortem and specimen sections — skulls, bones and…
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HereAfter
HereAfter is a two-floor macabre sanctuary on Denton's downtown square: the ground floor is a retail oddities…
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Thread and Bone TX
Thread & Bone TX is a husband-and-wife operation out of Bedford selling taxidermy, preserved specimens, bone…
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Webb Gallery
Webb Gallery has occupied a sprawling 5,000 sq ft 1902 downtown building since 1994, packing it with self-tau…
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Adrian E. Flatt Hand Collection
Tucked inside the lobby of Baylor University Medical Center's George W. Truett Memorial Hospital, this is 120…
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The Velvet Coffin
Small macabre oddities shop packed with taxidermy, wet specimens, bones, and vintage medical curiosities in a…
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Higher Purpose Emporium & Apothecary
By-appointment metaphysical shop with an in-store Temple to Hekate, a learning library, and a fully stocked a…