Entry No. 6 — the Grand Junction file — filed under: oddities
GJ Oddities
“Grand Junction didn't know what oddities were. It does now.”
The first thing you meet is the raven bear — a full black bear rebuilt with wings and unsettling blue eyes, hauled home from a Denver oddities festival. Past it, a family-run strip-mall unit on 9th Street stacked with taxidermy ravens, sheep hearts and brains in jars, a mummified baby iguana, wet-specimen sharks and bats, and a quiet shelf of serial-killer memorabilia. The McManus family opened it because Grand Junction didn't know what oddities were. It does now.
The move: Challenge each other to find the strangest thing in the shop under twenty bucks, swap them, then explain your picks over coffee downtown.
📍 Before you go It is Unit 7 in a small retail strip on the 1000 block of North 9th Street, with free parking right outside the door. Walk-in retail most of the week, but the shop tends to go dark early in the week and the owners vend at markets and oddities expos, so check their Instagram (@gjoddities) before driving over. Downtown Main Street's sculptures and coffee shops are about a mile south, an easy pairing for the rest of the afternoon.
- 📍 Grand Junction
- 💸 $$
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 1000 N 9th St, Unit 7, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Hours: Added 2026-06-11 — confirm current hours before you go.
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last checked: 2026-06-11