The COD
A Curated Daily Digest of Oddities, Curiosities & Unusual Fascinations
CURIOSITY OF THE DAY
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The COD will be off exploring the infinite abyss until October 30th. Please grave rob from our older articles until then. 🎃
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Haunted Attic: Bazaar of the Odd and Macabre
Haunted Attic Resale: Bazaar of the Odd and Macabre is an oddities and curiosities seller offering preservation services, including wet specimen pet memorials, unique shadow boxes, and curio ephemera to enhance your own personal collection of strange things.
Animal Skeletons
Up the fright factor this year by incorporating real animal skeletons into your Halloween decor.
Real Spider Web Art
Decorate your home this Halloween season using real spiderwebs that are preserved and beautifully framed - without the spider!
Weird Taxidermy
The weirdest and most unusual taxidermy we could find by artists from around the world.
Horse Cleaver
This horse cleaver is a functional oddities piece combining a large jawbone of a horse and a real steel cleaver.
Hanging Cynopterus Brachyotis Bat
Yep, this Hanging Cynopterus Brachyotis Bat is actually real.
Bat Choker
Wear this real Java pipistrelle Bat Choker and be the center of attention everywhere you go.
Adopt the Remains of a Rescue Rat
Adopt the cremated remains of a rescue rat - for real - and give a once-living rat a new home in the afterlife.
Preserved Eyeballs
There’s no shortage of weird sh*t you can buy online, including real preserved eyeballs in curious containers.
Vintage Curiosity Bear
This vintage curiosity bear maybe isn’t the kind you want to snuggle up with, but we love him all the same.
Vertebrae Air Plant Holder
Ethically sourced pieces of boar and deer vertebrae are reimagined into air plant holders.
Preserved Animals
Preserved animals are transformed into art, exampled by this Chinese Water Dragon turned witch.