Oddities & curiosities in Grand Junction
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Grand Junction? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — GJ Oddities, Palisade Insectary, Two-Story Outhouse 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 Grand Junction they'd never find on their own.
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GJ Oddities
The first thing you meet is the raven bear — a full black bear rebuilt with wings and unsettling blue eyes, h…
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Palisade Insectary
Here is the secret between the peach orchards: a state-run bug factory, the oldest of its kind in the country…
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Two-Story Outhouse
Tucked into the alley between Elk and Maroon Avenues, this hand-hewn wooden outhouse is one of Colorado's las…
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Alfred Eames Cellars
Buried beneath a working vineyard in Paonia is a concrete wine cave commissioned from an artist out of San Mi…
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Redstone Coke Oven Historic District
In the 1970s, countercultural youth actually moved into the hollow domes — 84 stone beehive coke ovens strung…
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Gateway Canyons Resort — Curator of Curiosity Tours
John Hendricks, the man who built the Discovery Channel, carved a resort into the Dolores River canyon and hi…
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Colterris Winery Barrel Cave
Someone actually bored a cave into a Colorado hillside and filled it with 250 French and American oak barrels…