If you are one for the stranger, unusual, and weird, then the Oddities and Curiosities Expo is for you! It is one of the largest internationally traveling event showing off hand selected vendors, artists, businesses of all shapes and sizes with all things odd and weird! Taking place the first New Year weekend of 2025 in Los Angeles, California, at the LA Convention Center, January 4th and 5th, attending the first day that Saturday the crowds weren't so bad.
Taking place on one side of the convention center only, it brought various vendors, showcasing taxidermy, various bug displays featuring numerous butterflies mostly, some other bugs and insects, with a lot of the other vendors being artists with prints, to appeal goth, tshirts, dresses, tails! To more vendors with bags, stickers, patches, jewelry, all being very weird and odd like.
This convention expo wasn't that big but not that small either. There was a stage with two acts, showing off a lot of the same acts, one called "The Amazing Zilla" and the other called "Tinderbox Circus Sideshow". Zilla's performance featured jokes, dancing, interaction with the crowd, and weirded out acts with sword swallowing, human blockhead tricks like driving a nail into the nose. She was just a lot of fun to watch and listen too, very fulfilling entertainment. The Tinderbox duo had two performers, the male performance did sword swallowing, and nail through the nose playing, with some tricky with animal traps as well! And both sets of performers had people come up to literally staple money onto their flesh!
It was quite the show, and the expo overall was fun filled throughout. Surely one of the many conventions, to visit at least once, to get an idea and experience of it's oddball and weirdly offerings. That is what the Oddities and Curiosities Expo is all about really….