Oddities & curiosities in Portland

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Portland? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — The Skeleton Key Odditorium, Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Freakybuttrue Peculiarium 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 Portland they'd never find on their own.

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The Skeleton Key Odditorium A 2,500-square-foot storefront museum where a Lucy Westenra vampire mannequin shares floor space with a Frank… Downtown Portland (Arts District)
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals A private rockhound's collection that outgrew its owners and became a nonprofit museum, housed in a 1952 ranc… Hillsboro
Freakybuttrue Peculiarium A self-described 'world's weirdest art gallery' anchored by a ten-foot Bigfoot statue out front, with an alie… Northwest Portland / Nob Hill
Scotch Lodge Decorated, per Eater, "like the home bar hideout of an exiled Romanov" — a windowless whisky den behind an un… Buckman / inner SE Portland
The Zymoglyphic Museum A converted garage turned into 'the world's only institution dedicated to the study and display of art, artif… Mount Tabor / Southeast Portland
Paxton Gate PDX A neo-Victorian cabinet of curiosities you can actually walk into: ethically sourced taxidermy, insect specim… North Mississippi Avenue