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2011 | Best Place to Buy Taxidermy Animals

Dead has never looked so alive. A small yellow chick with wings stretched out ($98), a mouse Hamlet midrecital ($105), a European beaver standing on a log ($650), all forever caught in one pose. With artistic oddities, jewelry, animal skeletons, and plants, Paxton Gate looks more like a vintage natural science museum that doubles as a shop. The taxidermy collection at this Valencia Street store ranges from $78 for a Mexican tourist mouse in sombrero to $3,500 for a roaring lion's head. In... More »
2007 | Best Weird Gift Store

Fossilized shit -- it's for the man who has everything. But what about the lady Hmm ... how about the skeleton of a domestic cat Or a beaver skull, complete with buck teeth Maybe a penis bone, a dead beetle, or a bird-eating tarantula A knobby starfish A civet skull Perhaps one of artist Jeanie M's fanciful, fucked-up taxidermy mice, dressed like the pope At the freakishly addictive Paxton Gate, all of these are reasonably priced (most way under $75), but you can also shoot for... More »

2011 | Best Place to Buy Taxidermy Animals