Curiosity shop

Salmagundi West, an antiques and curiosity shop in Gastown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada specializes in unique gifts and collectables.

I decided to participate in a 'Curiosity Shoppe' challenge last week, so set one up on the dining room table. For inspiration I used the Dickens story about a girl and her grandfather who lived in a...

The secrets of NYC.

The Curiosity Society on Instagram: “Bones, phrenology heads and apothecary jars. Lovely interior photo by @shardz_tattoo 💀🌿 #thecabinetofcuriosities #thecuriositysociety…”

April 2, 2018It’s a crisp, sunny winter day on the swank Upper East Side of Manhattan, and two moving men in blue coveralls are carrying a zebra down the sidewalk before carefully loading it into the back of a truck. A somewhat startled police officer, who had been primed to write the standing vehicle a […]

The old curiosity shop in London is a curiosity in itself. Situated near Holborn station, you'll be surprised when you stumble on this engineering enigma.

It's not quite a junk shop, but it's too informal to count as an antique store. While there may be books, it's not a book store either, and calling it a thrift store feels wrong. There's little to definitively categorise or unify its oddities. Much easier to pinpoint is the origin of the phrase "cur

The shop’s elusive owner, Bryce Kalousek-Maritano, has operated curiosity shops on the Venice Beach Boardwalk and in a caboose in Corvallis, Oregon.

Brick walls should be covered in "collections" bugs, clocks etc....