Oddities & curiosities in Monterey

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Monterey? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Medical History Museum at Salinas Valley Health, Pacific Biological Laboratories ("Doc's Lab"), Pacific Biological Laboratories (Ed Ricketts' Lab) 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 Monterey they'd never find on their own.

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Medical History Museum at Salinas Valley Health Appendix slices sliced into discs and preserved in paraffin wax hang under a sign asking "Could one of these… Salinas
Pacific Biological Laboratories ("Doc's Lab") The actual working lab of marine biologist Ed Ricketts — the real-life model for "Doc" in Steinbeck's Cannery… Cannery Row, Monterey
Pacific Biological Laboratories (Ed Ricketts' Lab) Marine biologist Ed Ricketts ran this building as a mail-order biological supply house, preserving and sellin… Cannery Row, Monterey
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History 409 mounted birds spanning 291 species crowd the walls, including 117 original specimens by pioneering collec… Pacific Grove
Whalers Cabin Museum A one-room 1850s cabin — the last of a dozen built by shipwrecked Chinese fishermen — packed with harpoons, s… Point Lobos, south of Carmel