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Echo Park Time Travel Mart.
speakeasies

Atlas Obscura Presents: Traveling Back in Time for Coconut Cake With The Sporkful

In search of an elusive slice of coconut cake, Dan Pashman of The Sporkful takes a detour through LA’s abandoned underground tunnel system, visiting a former speakeasy and an unusual store along the way.
The Podcast Team June 8, 2025
roadside attractions

Podcast: Welcome To Wall Drug

In the South Dakota badlands, a small pharmacy employed an ingenious marketing gimmick.
The Podcast Team June 5, 2024
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anastacia's Antiques

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.
Covington, Kentucky

Hierophany and Hedge

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.
roadside attractions

Podcast: Atlas Obscura Presents How To!

Setting up a roadside attraction with How To! host Amanda Ripley.
The Podcast Team December 2, 2022
Bolivia's Witch Market
La Paz, Bolivia

Bolivia's Witch Market

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Permanently Closed
Wild Bill's Nostalgia Store
Middletown, Connecticut

Wild Bill's Nostalgia Store

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.
Digging at Diggerland.
West Berlin, New Jersey

Diggerland USA

Destructive children, start your engines.
Permanently Closed
Chicago, Illinois

Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.
Sign at the entrance to Christmas Lane. (Wikimedia Commons)
Frankenmuth, Michigan

Bronner's Christmas Wonderland

World's largest Christmas store.
North Pole, Alaska

Santa Claus House

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Madison, Wisconsin

Dapper Cadaver

"Looks so real, it's scary!"
curio cabinets

Tombées du Camion: Inside a Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities

Melissa Lesnie April 22, 2014
purveyors of curiosities

New York City's Oldest Magic Shop: A Photo Tour

Michelle Enemark February 25, 2014
Los Angeles, California

Norton Sales Inc.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.
Permanently Closed
Los Angeles, California

Farmacia Y Botanica Million Dollar

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.
Paris, France

Deyrolle Taxidermy

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
The Joseph Boston Store, better known as Casa del Oro.
Monterey, California

Casa del Oro

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.