Oddities & curiosities in San Antonio
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in San Antonio? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Analytical Scientific, Ltd., Frontier Times Museum, Día de los Muertos Museum 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 San Antonio they'd never find on their own.
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Analytical Scientific, Ltd.
A skeleton wearing Mardi Gras beads greets you at the door of this family-run science-supply store, open sinc…
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Frontier Times Museum
Open since 1933, this homespun cabinet-of-curiosities museum — housed partly in the 1930s J. Marvin Hunter pr…
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Día de los Muertos Museum
'Secretly home' on the second floor of a Mexican grocery and gift store, per the Express-News, this year-roun…
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Milam Park (built over El Campo Santo cemetery)
San Antonio's first public cemetery, opened 1848, was only partly emptied before the city paved it into a par…
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Lona China Cemetery (the 'Chinese Graveyard')
A small family cemetery whose owner traces its haunted reputation to a great-great-great-great uncle killed b…