PAPennsylvania field entry
House of Oddities & Curious Goods
Elizabethtown, 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.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Oddities museum, outsider-art gallery, music archive, cryptid and true-crime exhibits, and unusual gift shop.
It is difficult to tell where the museum ends and the store begins. The combination of outsider art, sideshow material, strange recordings, folk creatures, and retail curiosities makes it fundamentally unclassifiable.
The storefront operates as several experiences at once: an oddities museum, outsider-art gallery, archive of strange music and recordings, and retail shop. Visitors encounter folk-art creatures, sideshow imagery, cryptid displays, true-crime material, unusual artifacts, and objects sold through the store’s self-described Ghastly Gift Shop.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- The free Oddball Oddity Museum
- Outsider and sideshow art
- Folk-art creatures
- Cryptid and true-crime displays
- Unusual music and recordings
- The Ghastly Gift Shop