Oddities & curiosities in Seattle
Looking for oddity shops & curiosities in Seattle? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Tenzing Momo, Mudlark Oddities, Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop 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 Seattle they'd never find on their own.
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Tenzing Momo
The West Coast's oldest herbal apothecary, operating in Pike Place Market's Economy building since the 1970s,…
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Mudlark Oddities
This cabinet-of-curiosities storefront is run by head mudlark Jared Steiner and already smells the part. Otto…
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Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop
A dense Ballard Avenue shop sorted into categories like human osteology, diaphonized (cleared-and-stained) sp…
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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Founded in 1899 and run by the same family for five generations, this is the oldest surviving oddities museum…
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Christopher Marley: Exquisite Creatures
Artist Christopher Marley arranges thousands of preserved insects, fossils, sea life, and minerals into obses…
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Odds & Ends - A Curiosity Shop
A downtown Olympia curiosity shop billing itself as a place to make your house a haunted home with sustainabl…
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Gas Works Park Shadow Sundial
This 19-acre park sits on the bones of a former coal gasification plant, with the rusting towers and cracked…