Oddities & curiosities in Oklahoma City
Oddity shops, curiosity cabinets and taxidermy counters: 8 of the strangest small storefronts in Oklahoma City, The Sanctuary, Beloved Bones and Lovely Bones Metaphysical Shop among them. The kind of quirky, offbeat retail you leave with a story and a jar of something. They spread across Plaza District, Farmers Market District, Uptown 23rd, Shawnee and 2 more areas, so two or three can make a whole afternoon. Every entry is hand-vetted against real sources — not scraped off a top-ten list or averaged out of crowd ratings.
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The Sanctuary
OKC's underground 'punk ethos' all-ages venue where bands play inches from you at ground level — there are lights and sound but deliberately no stage. It shares its building with the Beloved Bones oddities shop and has hosted out-of-state acts like death-sludge band Primitive Man on a sold-out date.
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Beloved Bones
OKC's only dedicated oddities-and-curiosities shop, founded by Mekala Littleton in 2017 with a storefront since 2022, stocked with taxidermy, wet specimens, insect art, and medical, religious, and funerary pieces (all human and animal remains ethically sourced). It shares a building with The Sanctuary, a DIY music venue, so cinema nights, art shows, and touring bands sometimes share the room.
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Lovely Bones Metaphysical Shop
A small, Latina/women-owned metaphysical shop tucked inside the historic 1928 OKC Farmers Public Market hall, carrying crystals, incense, tarot and oracle cards, intention candles, and hand-wired jewelry. Regulars describe a homey, family-like welcome.
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Craig's Curious Emporium
An OKC institution since 1995, Craig's spent years as a Paseo fixture before moving to the corner of NW 23rd and Classen. Among the crystals, tarot, rosaries, and metaphysical goods sit the genuinely strange bits for this category: preserved insects in shadow boxes and taxidermy pieces that range from beautiful to slightly unsettling.
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Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art
Founded in 1919 by a well-traveled Benedictine monk, this small but legitimately strange museum holds the only ancient Egyptian mummies on public display in Oklahoma — human and animal — alongside genuine shrunken heads and a surprisingly deep collection of Renaissance through 20th-century art. It's a cabinet-of-curiosities meets serious art museum, tucked quietly onto a Shawnee campus most people drive past without knowing.
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Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum & Apothecary Garden
Housed in an 1890 building in Guthrie's historic district, this free museum showcases the territory's original frontier pharmacy with artifacts like antique leech jars, asthma cigarettes, hysteria-cure ads, and elixir bottles — followed by a physic garden of medicinal herbs used by settlers and Native Americans. It's genuinely strange and legitimately fascinating.
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Terra Stone
A tightly curated crystal and mineral shop with a robust apothecary of organic herbs and smudge bundles, tucked into the eclectic Plaza District. Regulars note specimens here they've never seen on another shelf.
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A Little Hokus Pokus
A family-run metaphysical and gift boutique spotlighting Oklahoma makers and artists alongside tarot decks, witchcraft supplies, and oddity specimens. Curated, low-pressure, and full of local makers' stories.
Oddities & curiosities in Oklahoma City — FAQ
Which oddity shops & curiosities in Oklahoma City are the strangest?
Ranked by how strange they actually are: The Sanctuary, Terra Stone and Beloved Bones. The Sanctuary — OKC's underground 'punk ethos' all-ages venue where bands play inches from you at ground level — there are lights and sound but deliberately no stage.
Where in Oklahoma City are they?
Across Plaza District, Farmers Market District, Uptown 23rd, Shawnee and Guthrie and 1 more. Each listing gives the neighborhood and address so you can cluster a couple into one outing.
Is this a good weird date in Oklahoma City?
That's what the list is built for. Every entry has a specific move rather than a vague recommendation — at The Sanctuary, for instance: Catch a loud, sweaty, no-stage show standing shoulder-to-shoulder, then duck into the connected oddities shop between sets — an all-ages night out that costs almost nothing.
How were these oddity shops & curiosities chosen?
An agentic research system digs for the genuinely obscure — the spots even locals miss — and every one is verified against real sources before it makes the list. We deliberately skip the landmarks already on every Oklahoma City guide.