Oddities & curiosities in Denver
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Denver? These 25 are the genuinely strange ones — Crawford Hotel Lost & Found Wall, The Learned Lemur, The Shakespeare Elm 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 Denver they'd never find on their own.
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Crawford Hotel Lost & Found Wall
When crews restored Union Station they pulled apart the original wooden waiting benches and found a century o…
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The Learned Lemur
Set inside a restored Victorian house on East Colfax, the Learned Lemur is Denver's longtime oddities dealers…
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The Shakespeare Elm
In the southeast corner of City Park stands an ordinary-looking elm that is secretly a piece of Shakespeare.…
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Park Hill Treasures
An antique and artisan market crammed into a former bank branch on a stretch of East Colfax most people only…
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The Oddemporium
An oddities shop crammed floor-to-ceiling on Antique Row, with arguably more items per square inch than any o…
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910Arts (former 7-Up bottling plant turned artist live-work complex)
Most people only hit the Santa Fe Arts District on First Friday, when it's mobbed — so almost no one knows yo…
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Noctavia Obscure
A barely-a-year-old occult shop tucked into a storefront on Santa Fe Drive, with a full in-house apothecary w…
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HORRID
Tucked down S. Acoma behind the Brutal Poodle, HORRID started as one woman's spare-bedroom horror brand and h…
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Galapago Space
It's a literal residential garage on Galapago Street that someone hung gallery walls inside, and you get in t…
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Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities
A completely unremarkable Wadsworth strip-mall storefront hiding handmade bone jewelry, pinned-moth-and-butte…
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Chicky the Prairie Dog
In the Gems and Minerals hall sits a roughly nine-foot Brazilian amethyst geode, and if you crouch and look i…
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Walker Mansion Ruins and Unfinished Summer White House
On Mount Falcon, tucked off the Castle Trail, sit the lightning-gutted stone bones of John Brisben Walker's 1…
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Morrison Natural History Museum
This storefront-sized museum south of Morrison is so small you'd drive past it on the way to Red Rocks, but i…
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Odd Aly-Kat Emporium
Brighton's most unexpected new storefront: a 5,800-square-foot antique mall packed into a century-old Main St…
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Wood Shark Trading Company
Founded in 2002 by Jim Corey and now run by his son Matt, Wood Shark Trading Company packs crystals, incense,…
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Seven Keys Lodge Key Room (formerly Baldpate Inn)
Built in 1917 and now operating as Seven Keys Lodge, this mountain inn's key room drips from ceiling to floor…
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The Lighthouse Bookstore
The Lighthouse Bookstore has anchored the Pearl Street Mall since 1986, filling two floors with metaphysical…
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Medusa Gothic
Medusa Gothic is a Fort Collins boutique stocking gothic apparel, witchy jewelry, crystals, herbs, tarot deck…
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Hotel de Paris Museum
Built in 1875 by Louis Dupuy — an army deserter and culinary eccentric who imported French wines and fresh oy…
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Buffalo Rose
The Buffalo Rose is genuinely Colorado's oldest bar, operating continuously since 1859, and its main venue si…
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Tiny Town & Railroad
Built starting in 1915 by a moving-company owner for his daughter, Tiny Town is a genuine foothills curiosity…
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Fifty-Two 80s: A Totally Awesome Shop
Crammed into 900 square feet on South Broadway, Fifty-Two 80s is equal parts retail shop, personal museum, an…
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RitualCravt
A coven-run, Indigenous-owned metaphysical shop and folk-magic school running since 2015, with a 200+ herb ap…
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CC Oddities by Cera
An ethically sourced oddities and curiosities shop run by artist Cera, stocked with responsibly foraged or gi…
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Herbs & Arts
A metaphysical healing sanctuary on Colfax since 1993, known for in-house ritual oils, incenses, and bath sal…