November 16, 2021

Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo

By CL Staff

The traveling Oddities & Curiosities Expo will criss-cross the country in 2022, but it closed this year out with its second to last stop, right here in Tampa Bay where a collection of fabulously freaky people popped into the convention center to check out enough the taxidermy and odd kitsch to last a year.—Ray Roa

11/13/2021
Photos by Kimberly DeFalco https://www.instagram.com/kimberlydefalco

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Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Kimberly DeFalco

Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Kimberly DeFalco

Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Kimberly DeFalco

Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Kimberly DeFalco

Everything we saw at Tampa's Oddities & Curiosities Expo
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