Oddities & curiosities in Missoula

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Missoula? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Meadowsweet Herbs, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, World Famous 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar 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 Missoula they'd never find on their own.

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Meadowsweet Herbs A woman-owned, herbalist-run apothecary on the Hip Strip that has been compounding salves, liniments, tinctur… Missoula
Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum Tucked inside a University of Montana science building, this 1897-founded museum holds roughly 22,000 preserv… Missoula
World Famous 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar This sprawling roadside stop just off I-90 near the Idaho line is studded with over 80,000 dollar coins embed… Haugan, MT
Crystal Imports A roughly 25-year-old Missoula institution specializing in cut and rough gemstones, with a deep selection of… Missoula
Montana Antique Mall Spread across four floors and 15,000-plus square feet of the 1890 Montana Hotel, claimed to be the oldest bui… Missoula (Downtown)
Flock Taxidermy Run by artist Kimberly Spence, who learned the craft from a taxidermist on staff at the Natural History Museu… Missoula
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Wildlife Visitor Center A free visitor center entirely devoted to one animal: the elk. Inside the conservation group's headquarters y… Missoula (Grant Creek)
Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana A small, idiosyncratic collection on the Flathead Indian Reservation, filled with life-size dioramas of an ea… Charlo