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Unique Stores in Connecticut

Connecticut’s unusual stores reward both focused browsing and full-afternoon wandering. Curioporium turns a Southington curiosity shop into an immersive route through antiques, oddities, art, paranormal displays, and make-your-own specimens. On the coast, The Book Barn spreads hundreds of thousands of books through barns, sheds, gardens, and animal-filled grounds in Niantic. Old Wethersfield Country Store offers a gentler kind of abundance through candy, local soda, spices, kitchen goods, décor, books, games, and vintage toys. Use these as three different starting points before browsing the complete Connecticut list below.

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Oddity Shops & Curiosity Stores in Connecticut

Connecticut offers two unusually immersive takes on curiosity retail. Curioporium in Southington combines antiques and oddities with haunted rooms, paranormal exhibits and hands-on wet-specimen projects. In Bridgeport, CVRATED presents medical skulls, taxidermy, rare antiques, strange art and monumental objects in a showroom where nearly everything is offered for sale.

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  • Wide view of the Curiosity and Oddity Bar inside Curioporium in Southington
    CT

    Southington, CT

    Curioporium

    An immersive Southington curiosity shop where antiques, oddities, witchy goods, strange art, gifts, haunted rooms, paranormal exhibits, and make-your-own wet specimens turn shopping into an adventure.

    Curioporium mixes an oddities and antique shop with immersive haunted environments, witchy merchandise, unusual art, paranormal experiences, hands-on specimen projects, and rotating events inside Southington's Factory Square.

    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furniture+2 more
  • Wide view of taxidermy, skulls, antiques, art, and furniture inside CVRATED in Bridgeport
    CT

    Bridgeport, CT

    CVRATED by Ryan Matthew Cohn

    A Bridgeport showroom where medical skulls, taxidermy, rare antiques, bizarre furniture, historic artifacts, strange art, giant puppets, and objects that look like movie props are almost all for sale.

    CVRATED by Ryan Matthew Cohn turns a former industrial space into part antique showroom, part gallery, and part cabinet of curiosities, filling it with anatomical material, taxidermy, historic objects, art, extraordinary furniture, and rare finds sourced from around the world.

    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furniture+2 more

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  • Exterior of Old Wethersfield Country Store at 221 Main Street in Wethersfield
    CT

    Wethersfield, CT

    Old Wethersfield Country Store

    An Old Wethersfield general store where penny candy, local soda, coffee and tea, spices, kitchen goods, décor, candles, soaps, cocktail mixers, books, puzzles, games, and vintage toys all still share the shelves.

    Old Wethersfield Country Store takes the classic neighborhood general-store idea seriously, mixing sweets and local foods with kitchen supplies, home goods, self-care products, books, games, toys, drinks, and work from local makers.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureHealth & personal careBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • R/C Madness radio-control racing destination in Enfield, CT
    CT

    Enfield, CT

    R/C Madness

    R/C Madness turns a hobby store and multi-track RC racing complex into a visitable hobby destination.

    R/C Madness combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Enfield, CT.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Wide interior view of mixed salvage, thrift goods, furniture, and collectibles at Roosevelt Tower in Derby
    CT

    Derby, CT

    Roosevelt Tower Antiques, Salvage & Thrift

    A Derby factory thrift shop where taxidermy, motorcycles, records, antique radios, vending machines, old toys, military pieces, phones, movie memorabilia, salvage, coins, and giant objects disappear into a massive warehouse operation.

    Roosevelt Tower stretches thrift shopping across an old factory property, mixing antiques and salvage with records, machines, motorcycles, taxidermy, toys, militaria, electronics, signage, collectibles, and oversized objects backed by a huge warehouse.

    Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furnitureAutomotive & mechanicalGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+4 more
  • Main Barn sign and barn building at The Book Barn, 41 West Main Street in Niantic
    CT

    Niantic, CT

    The Book Barn

    A 350,000-plus-book Niantic labyrinth spread through barns, sheds, gardens, a building called Hades, a possibly haunted book house, an outhouse full of books, roaming cats, and a pen of carrot-loving goats.

    The Book Barn turns used-book shopping into an outdoor campus adventure, spreading hundreds of thousands of books through themed buildings, gardens, sheds, an old outhouse, animal areas, and three nearby Niantic stores.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirs
    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesApparel & footwear+1 more
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