Oddities & curiosities in Sacramento

Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Sacramento? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Museum of Medical History, Death by Natural Causes at The Paperworks, The Altar Room 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 Sacramento they'd never find on their own.

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Museum of Medical History Run by the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society (SSVMS) and tucked into its administrative offices, this… East Sacramento / River Park
Death by Natural Causes at The Paperworks Inside the renovated 1800s Blake, Moffitt & Towne paper-company building, Sacramento's newest exhibit hall op… Old Sacramento Waterfront
The Altar Room Founder Shasta Smith — previously known for running Vintage Monkey, an archive of antique motorcycles, and ho… Tahoe Park, Sacramento
Loved To Death on Main The shop that anchored Science Channel's "Oddities: San Francisco" relocated to a historic Main Street storef… Placerville (Gold Country)
Dai Loy Museum Inside Locke — the only town in America built entirely by and for Chinese immigrants — sits a 1915 gambling h… Locke
Effie Yeaw Nature Center — Moths and Other Insects of the Night Tucked in the American River Parkway's oak woodland, this nature center runs an after-dark program built enti… Ancil Hoffman Park, Carmichael