Oddities & curiosities in Denver

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Denver? These 28 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… Union Station / LoDo
The Learned Lemur Set inside a restored Victorian house on East Colfax, the Learned Lemur is Denver's longtime oddities dealers… Capitol Hill / East Colfax
The Shakespeare Elm In the southeast corner of City Park stands an ordinary-looking elm that is secretly a piece of Shakespeare.… City Park
Park Hill Treasures An antique and artisan market crammed into a former bank branch on a stretch of East Colfax most people only… Park Hill
The Art Garage It's a working nonprofit art studio crammed into an old converted mechanic's garage on a Park Hill corner — f… Park Hill
The Oddemporium An oddities shop crammed floor-to-ceiling on Antique Row, with arguably more items per square inch than any o… Baker / South Broadway (Antique Row)
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… Santa Fe Arts District
The Terrorium Shop Tucked into a little brick storefront in Berkeley, this is the place that makes 'terroriums' — living-plant t… Berkeley
HORRID (Denver's Horror Shop) Started in a spare bedroom in 2018, HORRID is now a full 'House of Horrors' complex tucked behind the Brutal… South Acoma / South Broadway, Denver
Noctavia Obscure A barely-a-year-old occult shop tucked into a storefront on Santa Fe Drive, with a full in-house apothecary w… Santa Fe Arts District, Denver
Alchemy Ritual Goods BIPOC- and women-founded ritual shop in the historic Savoy building that hides something most shoppers walk r… Five Points / Curtis Park (Savoy building)
HORRID Tucked down S. Acoma behind the Brutal Poodle, HORRID started as one woman's spare-bedroom horror brand and h… South Broadway / Overland
Galapago Space It's a literal residential garage on Galapago Street that someone hung gallery walls inside, and you get in t… La Alma/Lincoln Park
Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities A completely unremarkable Wadsworth strip-mall storefront hiding handmade bone jewelry, pinned-moth-and-butte… Lakewood
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… City Park
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… Morrison
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… Morrison
Havana Street Night Markets Once a month from late spring through September, the parking lot around Leezakaya on South Havana turns into… Aurora (Havana Street corridor)
Odd Aly-Kat Emporium Brighton's most unexpected new storefront: a 5,800-square-foot antique mall packed into a century-old Main St… Brighton
Wood Shark Trading Company Founded in 2002 by Jim Corey and now run by his son Matt, Wood Shark Trading Company packs crystals, incense,… Castle Rock
Lucretia Vaile Museum The Lucretia Vaile Museum is a genuine small-town curiosity: a compact, free-admission history museum housed… Palmer Lake
Sandstone Ranch Open Space A 2,038-acre Douglas County open space that saved a 150-year-old working cattle ranch from becoming a housing… Larkspur
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… Estes Park
The Lighthouse Bookstore The Lighthouse Bookstore has anchored the Pearl Street Mall since 1986, filling two floors with metaphysical… Boulder
Medusa Gothic Medusa Gothic is a Fort Collins boutique stocking gothic apparel, witchy jewelry, crystals, herbs, tarot deck… Fort Collins
Hotel de Paris Museum Built in 1875 by Louis Dupuy — an army deserter and culinary eccentric who imported French wines and fresh oy… Georgetown
Buffalo Rose The Buffalo Rose is genuinely Colorado's oldest bar, operating continuously since 1859, and its main venue si… Golden
Tiny Town & Railroad Built starting in 1915 by a moving-company owner for his daughter, Tiny Town is a genuine foothills curiosity… Morrison