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Pennsylvania’s unusual stores range from vast enthusiast collections to roadside candy museums and intimate curiosity shops. Bicycle Heaven fills a Pittsburgh warehouse with bicycles, parts, memorabilia, and museum displays while remaining an active shop. Near Gettysburg, Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum & Candy Emporium pairs candy and gifts with an enormous elephant collection and garden figures. Back in Pittsburgh, The Weeping Glass concentrates natural-history objects, funerary pieces, art, jewelry, and carefully chosen oddities into a much smaller room. These profiles demonstrate the state’s range; the complete Pennsylvania directory follows below.
Pennsylvania’s qualifying shops stretch from focused cabinets to broader gathering spaces. Columbia Curiosities centers funerary and medical objects; Philadelphia’s End Times adds wet specimens; Mz. Jones’ Curio joins bones with workshops in Greensburg; Franklin’s Printer’s Cabinet mixes taboo and estate finds; and Pittsburgh’s Weeping Glass brings oddities, books, folk magic, ephemera and tea-related events together.
PAColumbia, PA
A curiosity shop where funerary pieces, religious artifacts, witchy objects, medical antiques, taxidermy, and unsettling dolls share the room.
Columbia Curiosities combines funerary, religious, medical, witchcraft-related, antique, and oddity merchandise with themed events and displays.
PAGreensburg, PA
A family-run curio shop combining taxidermy, wet specimens, bones, metaphysical supplies, workshops, and an unusual pet-memorial service.
Mz. Jones’ Curio combines taxidermy, preserved specimens, bones, ethically sourced oddities, metaphysical merchandise, classes, and workshops.
PAPhiladelphia, PA
A Philadelphia cabinet of curiosities filled with taxidermy, medical skulls, wet specimens, funerary pieces, occult objects, antiques, and darkly unusual home décor.
The End Times Boutique combines natural-history specimens, taxidermy, anatomical objects, occult and funerary pieces, antiques, jewelry, décor, and unusual gifts.
PAFranklin, PA
A curiosity cabinet filled with strange, occult, taboo, antique, decorative, and estate objects inside a small northwest Pennsylvania storefront.
The Printer’s Cabinet combines oddities, occult and taboo material, antiques, estate jewelry, crystals, decorative objects, and unusual gifts.
PAPittsburgh, PA
A Pittsburgh curiosities shop mixing antiques, folk magic, esoterica, books, ephemera, unusual gifts, events, and a parlour-tea element.
The Weeping Glass combines oddities, antiques, esoteric and folk-magic material, books, ephemera, paper goods, unusual gifts, events, and tea-related experiences.
PAPittsburgh, PA
A functioning bicycle shop and repair business embedded inside a sprawling museum packed with thousands of vintage, rare, famous, and unusual bicycles.
Bicycle Heaven combines an enormous bicycle museum with a working bike shop, parts inventory, repair services, memorabilia, and thousands of bikes.
PAElizabethtown, PA
A free oddities museum, outsider-art gallery, music collection, and ghastly gift shop occupying the same small-town storefront.
House of Oddities combines sideshow-style exhibits, outsider art, cryptid and true-crime material, strange recordings, curiosities, and an unusual gift shop.
PAMonroeville, PA
A zombie-history museum and horror gift shop operating inside the mall made famous by the original Dawn of the Dead.
The Living Dead Museum combines zombie-film history, props, memorabilia, exhibits, horror collectibles, merchandise, and events inside Monroeville Mall.
PAOrrtanna, PA
A candy emporium surrounded by more than twelve thousand elephants, whimsical gardens, a talking elephant, and a separate teapot museum.
Mister Ed’s combines homemade fudge, chocolates, candy, roasted peanuts, nut butter, elephant merchandise, an enormous elephant collection, gardens, and a teapot museum.
PAButler, PA
A hands-on toy store housed inside a metallic building that resembles a spacecraft or stealth aircraft landed beside a Pennsylvania highway.
Playthings Etc. is a large specialty toy store distinguished by spaceship-like architecture, hands-on product demonstrations, and an experiential shopping environment.
PADoylestown, PA
A vampire and paranormal museum connected to an antiques barn, gift shop, sculpture-filled grounds, dinosaur park, Zen garden, and wandering peacocks.
VAMPA combines a vampire and paranormal museum, antiques retail, themed merchandise, art, taxidermy, unusual grounds, gardens, and outdoor attractions.