Almost everything is for sale, except the two-headed cow. Down a flight of stairs on Ballard’s busiest shopping street, Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop has antique dishes for sale, some tinged with glow-in-the-dark uranium. There are antique dolls and a taxidermied raccoon giving the finger. Bug and butterfly specimens, a box of skeleton keys, weird old books. But the two-headed calf is for display only.
“I can’t remember a time I didn’t collect things,” says Ballyhoo owner Ryan Robbins, who as a kid adored Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on Seattle’s waterfront. That historic curio store dates back to 1899, selling tchotchkes and oddities alongside the display of
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