Paxton Gate
Eccentric oddities and baubles

This Mission District treat isn’t all rainbows and sunshine like many of the cutesy boutiques peppered throughout the neighbourhood. The stuffed and mounted trouts, goats and deer, animal skulls and peculiar plants with the odd scientific instrument haphazardly strewn across store form a chimerical collection of miscellanea you won’t find anywhere else. Down the street, a sister store specialises in similarly nature-rooted curia for kids.
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