San Francisco, CA.

Paxton Gate

User Reviews of Paxton Gate

Yelp.com Review - by Alexia A.

1.0 of 5 stars. Cool-looking store but NOTHING practical is sold here. Why the fuck would I buy a shell?Get a stuffed animal head in South America. $50 bucks. Twice as big. (My only star is for the EPWA tooth)Sorry...
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Raphael R.

4.0 of 5 stars. Where else can you buy mounted insects, carnivorous plants, and magnifying glasses? This place also sells very cool hand-made scissors. You have to see this place to believe it.
yelp.com - user review - 05/10/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Lyall H.

5.0 of 5 stars. During our search for a landscape designer--which had turned up candidates we were only lukewarm about--my husband and I had our "Aha!" moment in the backyard of Paxton Gate's wonderful and quirky...
yelp.com - user review - 05/05/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by mel r.

5.0 of 5 stars. Something about dead things and taxidermy curiosities, that just makes me go a big gooey oneMust. Resist. Temptation. To. Blow. Entire. Paycheck. Here....
yelp.com - user review - 04/23/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by kerry f.

4.0 of 5 stars. Pretty trendy. They have overpriced taxidermied mice and rabbits that look like they came out of a Jan Svankmajer film. The nursery is so cute, and it is a pretty interesting place. They have pretty...
yelp.com - user review - 04/17/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by A H.

5.0 of 5 stars. Amazing store with a strange array of products. You need more than a few minutes to fully experience this store. Words cannot do it justice.
yelp.com - user review - 04/11/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Ben K.

4.0 of 5 stars. I'm afraid that this isn't a review for the Paxton landscaping business, or the Paxton Gate store-qua-store. This is the Paxton Gate store as taxidermy-chic art gallery.And as such, it's a lot of fun....
yelp.com - user review - 04/07/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Zoe M.

4.0 of 5 stars. Oh my God.What do you get when you cross a Venus Flytrap, taxidermied mice dressed in Hamlet costumes, and a mink penis bone?Paxton Gate.This place is fantastic if not slightly... off-color (read:...
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Yelp.com Review - by Christina M.

5.0 of 5 stars. My favorite little gem in the Mission. I love all the dried flowers and dead animals. Great place for gifts!
yelp.com - user review - 03/24/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Rob B.

5.0 of 5 stars. PG all swings together like some unique art event. With all the plants and animals, bones, bugs, life, death, prosthetics, it's like walking through the pages of Cabinet of Curiosities. It's a great...
yelp.com - user review - 03/16/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Lindsey H.

5.0 of 5 stars. magic!
yelp.com - user review - 03/15/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by jeff w.

5.0 of 5 stars. This is about Paxton Gate LANDSCAPING, not the store (which is very cool as well).I see someone dinged these guys with 1-star, which is what prompted me to review.I've had there services for years...
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by C. B.

5.0 of 5 stars. I have nothing but positive things to say about Paxton Gate (LANDSCAPING). They created a beautifully landscaped garden, on time and within budget. Todd and Sean were creatively attentive and...
yelp.com - user review - 03/10/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Sam S.

1.0 of 5 stars. I'm talking about Paxton Gate the landscape business.I needed a major major backyard makeover and was willing to pay for it more than they could know. These guys talked a good talk so I spent $300 on...
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Naomi C.

5.0 of 5 stars. i have no kids, but i stopped in here as a serious fan of paxton gate. and they're on to something folks. real toys for kids. the kind kids have to spend some time with, even struggle with a bit,...
yelp.com - user review - 02/26/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Melisa B.

1.0 of 5 stars. Okay, first let me say that I hate taxidermy so things like little mice dressed in costumes, baby sea creatures in formaldehyde and other gorgeous animals dead, messed with, and hung on the walls...
yelp.com - user review - 01/31/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Staci C.

5.0 of 5 stars. Awesome store, so much fun to explore all the nooks and crannies! Their array of inexpensive succulents is fantastic! I am always a sucker for an interesting houseplant!
yelp.com - user review - 01/29/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Brenda H.

5.0 of 5 stars. Novelty Taxidermy, hourglasses, art books, teas, and gardening. What more can you ask for? It doesn't get any better. Loved the taxidermy mice dressed in the hamlet costumes! The garden in the back of...
yelp.com - user review - 01/27/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jessica H.

3.0 of 5 stars. I don't even know what to write about this shop. I guess the highest compliment is that I have never been anywhere like this. So freakin' weird. And yet, I'm obsessed. Welcome to the Mission, I...
yelp.com - user review - 01/25/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by raquel m.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is an incredibly eclectic cross between gardening store, taxidermy shop, entomological trove, art book retailer, and natural history boutique.I bought chicken feet for my brother, who...
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by elizabeth o.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is full of the magical objects you dream about finding as a child. This store has got my number. There are only two or three things in it that I wouldn't want; it's just a question of...
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Nish N.

4.0 of 5 stars. Yay, those crazy kids at Paxton Gate have opened up their own children's store. You won't find anything resembling plastic here, every toy and game has that old time, vintage feel to it. Sturdy play...
yelp.com - user review - 01/04/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Donna P.

5.0 of 5 stars. This is the more grown-up version of the kids' store down the street. And it's pretty unique. It reminds me of my Grandpa, and any store that does that gets 5 stars. Old rocks, fool's gold, fossils,...
yelp.com - user review - 12/31/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer M.

2.0 of 5 stars. We have been going to Paxton Gate since they were on Brady Street oh so many years ago. It is still a great store, however, the new children's store leaves a lot to be desired. The inexperienced and...
yelp.com - user review - 12/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Keromi K.

2.0 of 5 stars. I visited the new Paxton Gate's Curiosities for Children store today with my two year old and felt that the store had very little to offer. Sure, everything looked natural (not a single plastic toy in...
yelp.com - user review - 12/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Ramon C.

5.0 of 5 stars. I absolutely love this place. It's very unique; different. They sell all kinds of interesting nature, animal kingdom things. Dried insects (like beautiful butterflies and beetles); sea urchin and...
yelp.com - user review - 12/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Glaciala A.

5.0 of 5 stars. So unique!
yelp.com - user review - 12/21/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by patrick k.

4.0 of 5 stars. Really a great store that our in-laws loved. And they tend to be difficult to please kind of folk. Really enjoyed the local artist's works also. Made it feel more like a community-based, neighborhood...
yelp.com - user review - 11/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Tim O.

4.0 of 5 stars. Right next door to Dave Eggers' pirate store and across the street from another cool store, the curiosity shoppe, Paxton's Gate is definitely a place you gotta check out if you're in the Mission.It...
yelp.com - user review - 11/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by sheri n.

5.0 of 5 stars. taxidermy and gardeners can unite here @ paxton gate.they were kind enough to help me find some particular scarabs for a present. they even suggested that i bring my own frame in since the ones they...
yelp.com - user review - 11/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by binh l.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is my Little Shop of Wonder!
yelp.com - user review - 11/03/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Rob P.

5.0 of 5 stars. I have been shopping at this store for years. I bought my Merlin the magician mouse here and have become very attached to him. I can easily spend an hour in this store looking and touching all the...
yelp.com - user review - 10/19/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by tinna h.

5.0 of 5 stars. Dead, stuffed lions, tigers, and bears. Oh my! Books on eating insects. Venus Fly Traps. Orchids. Gardening tools. Gold-plated bones. Colorful eyeballs. Absolutely delightful and worth a visit.I love...
yelp.com - user review - 10/16/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jamie D.

5.0 of 5 stars. Did I die & go to Paxton Gate? Probably not, or all or part of me would most likely be mounted or boiled & my bones displayed on their walls.Their little monkey with a watering can logo is adorable....
yelp.com - user review - 10/14/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by danny e.

5.0 of 5 stars. I have walked by a thousand times, literally, I have walked by one thousand times, and never once have I entered this gate. I think the big giraffe head had something to do with me never entering....
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Quinn S.

5.0 of 5 stars. Taxidermy mice dressed up as the Pope, barrels and drawers filled with miscellaneous flora and fauna, flotsam and jetsam, an exotic plant nursery featuring the flesh-eating varieties, and that's just...
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Big W.

5.0 of 5 stars. DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE STUFFED ANIMALS AT PAXTON GATE.If you don't like meat, don't go to a steakhouse. Stop wasting everyone's time complaining and just don't go in. People act like the employees...
yelp.com - user review - 09/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Janel M.

4.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is the epitome of amazing. It loses a star because I have never felt like the staff is the epitome of amazing. C'mon, why doesn't anyone who works here seem thrilled or excited. They seem...
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2008
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glorious merchandising!

They house an impeciable collection and have glorious displays. There is something for everyone here, from children to adults. The landscaping area in the back is also quite impressive. There is no other store...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Bryan M.

5.0 of 5 stars. if you've ever had any level of fascination with dead things, carnivorous plants, or loose tea you need to go here. they even let dogs in...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Nadine W.

1.0 of 5 stars. Let me not beat around the garden bush. Paxton Gate has dead stuffed endangered animals on display including a lion and a bison. I thought to myself, "These can't possibly be real?" So I asked the...
yelp.com - user review - 08/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by shaina v.

5.0 of 5 stars. The selection in this store is dreamy. It's a very cultured Martha Stewart meets Vincent Price kinda place. I'm happy to see that others share my love for botanical and biological illustration.As a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by shanti s.

5.0 of 5 stars. i've been going to this place since it was in that vortex of an alley near mission, valencia, van ness and market. it's fukking rad and i've been pinning bugs ever since. sure my girlfriends of the...
yelp.com - user review - 08/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Tom S.

5.0 of 5 stars. A gift store for Ph. D's. Creepy-cool collection for the naturalist with goth sensibilities.I imagine that this store is a carbon copy of a 1880's Museum of Curiosities. The place is fascinating...
yelp.com - user review - 07/30/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jaei P.

4.0 of 5 stars. i've never bought anything from them but i still love going in there. they have pretty much the coolest stuff to just go look at! tons of plants, fossils, dead bugs, science project stuff, animal...
yelp.com - user review - 07/24/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Heather B.

4.0 of 5 stars. Super cool store, like nothing else I have ever been in. They have a great outdoor garden in the back, be sure not to miss that. It is a good place to go stand for 5 minutes and process all the...
yelp.com - user review - 07/15/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Alex T.

5.0 of 5 stars. I feel like Jumanji has come to life every time I walk into this trove of curiosities.Half museum and half mad-scientist lab, you have got to check this place out if you have never been.
yelp.com - user review - 07/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jean L.

5.0 of 5 stars. How can you pass up a store with a life sized lion displayed in the window above the store entrance? It's a really cool store. It's like a natural science lab/museum combined with a garden shop. There...
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Avery L.

5.0 of 5 stars. I've died and entered taxidermy heaven. I love this sort of stuff - macabre, interesting, creepy. Animal bones, stuffed animal heads, creepy plants - I practically wet my jeans when I walked in. The...
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Marina N.

5.0 of 5 stars. Not for the squeemish. I absolutely love it and have spent a solid hour here just browsing the stuffed costumed mice, the plants, the various animal bones, the jewelry, and so forth. Check out their...
yelp.com - user review - 06/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Shereen R.

5.0 of 5 stars. How can anyone pass by this store and not take a look?A Natural Science Museum/store with the coolest little gadgets I've ever seen. Unique stationary, succulents, glass eyes, animal bones. You can...
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Cece S.

5.0 of 5 stars. I'm ob-freakin-sessed about this place. How can it be macabre, cute and elegant all at once? It's got an ideal location for strolling in after dinner in the Mission and just wandering in awe at all...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by michella v.

5.0 of 5 stars. best store to ever exist. great for the science nerd at heart.
yelp.com - user review - 05/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by tiff f.

4.0 of 5 stars. need a mouse dressed up as a princess? or beautiful pot & plants...this is the place to spend a sunday afternoon.
yelp.com - user review - 05/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by S P.

5.0 of 5 stars. Five stars for just the smell. If they could bottle & sell that, I'd be broke!
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Yelp.com Review - by GLAD to be g ..

5.0 of 5 stars. The window displays always freak me out a little bit, but a friend suggested going there for air plants so I braved it and walked into what seems like an old scientific lab. However, the atmosphere of...
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Yelp.com Review - by Joseph R.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is the perfect store to go on a random treasure hunt in! I really like to just browse around shops like these because if you look hard enough, you can always find something that you missed on...
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Yelp.com Review - by Michael M.

5.0 of 5 stars. For all things bone. You can find skeletons of squirrels, raccoons, skunks, etc. Need raccoon claws? Got 'em. Need mice dressed up all Gothic like? Got that too. Need a deer's head for your...
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Yelp.com Review - by Panthea J.

5.0 of 5 stars. My mom is a teacher. If you have a kid, she's the teacher you wish your kid had. Several times a year she takes 11 and 12 year old hormonally challenged hellions camping for what is often the first...
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Yelp.com Review - by Elena G.

5.0 of 5 stars. What a crazy little boutique of Jurassic delights! Did I buy the chocolate covered bugs for my sister just to see her reaction? Yes. Did I also get her the excavation kit to keep her busy that she...
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by robin l.

5.0 of 5 stars. Jesus Christ man.....this store has created a monster! Since my first visit to Paxton and about 20 exoctic plants and succelents later, I have become obsessed with green and anything that grows-hence,...
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by merritt g.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate makes San Francisco a better place to live, window shop, explore, and inspire your self and your friends!Kylea the manager is knowledgeable on many of the oddities and/or their history. I...
yelp.com - user review - 04/10/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by millie m.

5.0 of 5 stars. i could spend hours in this place, every time i go i feel like i'm on a field trip! they have everything from tiny bottles, taxidermy, strange trinkets, plants and even local artwork! it's a dream...
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Elizabeth B.

5.0 of 5 stars. If I dreamed up the best store in the whole world, it still wouldn't be as awesome as Paxton's Gate. I'm like a kid with her allowance money in this place, wandering around for an hour, and then...
yelp.com - user review - 03/31/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Monika M.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is super cool. Half museum/half store. Not too bad prices on really unique items, with super helpful staff.And yes, it does remind me of dissecting owl pellets in 7th grade.
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Yelp.com Review - by Jean K.

4.0 of 5 stars. Like a Victorian cupboard brought to life but focused on unusual flora and fauna. For example, owl pellets (with mouse remains or bird remains - take your pick), the costumed rats, animal brains in...
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Yelp.com Review - by Caroline R.

5.0 of 5 stars. If you want to buy beautiful dead things this is the place for you. Fossils, taxidermied small animals dressed up like the pope, framed butterflies..CAN YOU SAY....MACABRE VICTORIAN DREAM!!!???!!This...
yelp.com - user review - 03/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by neil c.

5.0 of 5 stars. Owl pellets!When owls and other birds of prey eat, they are left with a bunch of indigestible matter in their stomaches - skulls, claws, teeth, etc. They puke them up in something called a pellet,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Linda V.

5.0 of 5 stars. Where else can you shop for a venus fly trap, bits of animal skulls, teeth, and assorted bones, fossils, old books, and a taxidermized mouse dressed up like angel, all in the same store? If I ever win...
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by cecilia g.

5.0 of 5 stars. This is my favorite store in the city, period. I love everything they sell in it. The plants and the jewelry and the dead animals and the books and the insects... it's all so beautiful in this kind...
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Yelp.com Review - by Vani H.

5.0 of 5 stars. This is a great Store, it has allot to offer for the horticulturist, to the Goth, to the historian. I have to say it does remind me of the indoor garden area of Morticia Adams home in the TV show....
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Yelp.com Review - by Katie C.

5.0 of 5 stars. I am in love with this store. Can you say MACABRE? I never realized there are other people as weird as me until I found this store. It's so me. If you are looking for something truly original this...
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Yelp.com Review - by Joanne G.

5.0 of 5 stars. Quite possibly the most fascinating store, ever, and so fun to browse. Still, I'm curious as to who actually buys anything from here? I can't imagine filling my home with a full sized taxidermied...
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Yelp.com Review - by Tien L.

4.0 of 5 stars. You remember those freaky school kids in elementary and middle school, the ones who totally got off dissecting frogs and sheeps and then would remove themselves socially at recess by climbing trees...
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Yelp.com Review - by Julie J.

5.0 of 5 stars. Ok, so I'm not so into the taxidermied mice dressed in weird costumes, and not that excited about the petrified animal poop. But pretty much everything else here rocks my world. You see, I have what...
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Yelp.com Review - by Veronica G.

5.0 of 5 stars. Why oh why is the stuffed Candian goose midflight with an alligator head (poised open for attack) not for sale??? I knew I wanted it when I saw it and now that you have told me I can not have it, I am...
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Yelp.com Review - by Skye R.

5.0 of 5 stars. I once got outbid on ebay for a box of antique glass eyes and it ruined my week."But WHY, Skye?! WHY DO YOU NEED A BOX OF GLASS EYEBALLS? You're not an ophthalmologist. You and everyone you know has...
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Yelp.com Review - by Lawrence K.

5.0 of 5 stars. ever wonder what to get that hard to please loved one?perhaps they would like a hollowed out ostrich egg? no?well would they like a fossil? or a well curated exotic insect?no & no?then maybe instead...
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Yelp.com Review - by Fannie S.

4.0 of 5 stars. It was an interesting place.I like places like this...but...I am not into taxidermy...scares me!I still suggest you give a try, before you knock it though. They have a great collection of taxidermy,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Yanny S.

4.0 of 5 stars. I've only been here once, so maybe I shouldn't review it. But what the hell, this store is filled with things I've never seen before. I went there months ago and still remember it. It's what I'd...
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Yelp.com Review - by kay v.

5.0 of 5 stars. I share my humble abode with a vegetarian and an animal, so all the deer heads mounted in the apartment are, sadly, fake. I come to Paxton every time I stop into Modern Times for a new book, just to...
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Yelp.com Review - by Alison W.

5.0 of 5 stars. I've never spent so much time pining over taxidermy and mounted bugs. I'm hoping that somebody got me a Jackalope from this store for the holidays, but if they didn't I'll gladly buy my own. This...
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Yelp.com Review - by Renee L.

4.0 of 5 stars. if it wasn't for paxton gate i would have a hell of a time aquiring my raccoon penis bones.this store is really great... when and what i will every need to buy from here i do not know, but i will...
yelp.com - user review - 12/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ed U.

4.0 of 5 stars. "Hooray for Captain Spaulding!The African explorer...'Did someone call me schnorrer?'Hooray Hooray Hooray!"I'm not sure how a basket of owl pellets would go over at my department's Christmas party...
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Yelp.com Review - by Angelica t.

4.0 of 5 stars. Dear San Francisco,My grandfather, Jakob Kerrill -shortened from some ungodly communistic Ukrainian name upon his passage to Amerika - was a madly passionate mushroom hunter. He snuck up on those...
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Yelp.com Review - by alexis m.

4.0 of 5 stars. The perfect combination of "who the hell needs that" and "who wouldn't want one of those." I was excited to see that Paxton Gate carried owl pellets. I think it would be fun to dissect some with my...
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Yelp.com Review - by Sarah D.

5.0 of 5 stars. This is the store to nurture to 8 year-old mad biologist in all of us. I've never wanted so many dead things before.I never seriously considered decorating with animal skeletons until I stopped here....
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Yelp.com Review - by Bunny H.

5.0 of 5 stars. They have all the taxidermy, carnivorous plants, mounted insects, and skeletal material a girl could ask for. I could decorate my whole house at this place - and if I had a yard, I'd definitely employ...
yelp.com - user review - 10/26/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Fallopian Swim Team D.

5.0 of 5 stars. I really don't know what to say about this place. Part Nine inch Nails video, part bookstore, part plant nursery, all cool. Incredible selection of bugs, animal bones, and gemstones. Easily in my top...
yelp.com - user review - 10/21/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ravena F.

5.0 of 5 stars. FINALLY!! A place to buy raccoon penises. Jeesh, you'd think they'd be easier to find in this liberal mecca we don't call Frisco.You can find a huge variety of dead animals and their bones here, as...
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Yelp.com Review - by Cat R.

4.0 of 5 stars. I want everything in this store but I can't afford any of it. Plus I don't have space for that much stuff. And if I bought everything then there wouldn't be a store left and that wouldn't be cool...
yelp.com - user review - 10/12/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by slayerela b.

5.0 of 5 stars. Oh my god.
yelp.com - user review - 09/30/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by mike w.

4.0 of 5 stars. while this place has an extremely strange assortment of cool things I can't give it a 5. There is one person who works there that assumes that you don't want your change if it's less than a dollar....
yelp.com - user review - 09/18/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by imitura ..

5.0 of 5 stars. This store was made for me: live plants, dead animals, scary books and tea! They have raccoon teeth if you ever need some.
yelp.com - user review - 09/17/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Carina N.

4.0 of 5 stars. Disturbingly beautiful. It's a store full of cabinets of curiosities. Here you'll find pinned beetles, butterflies, skulls of turtles and ravens and all sorts, dinosaurs teeth, fox claws, etc....
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Yelp.com Review - by Amy G.

2.0 of 5 stars. While wandering down Valencia St., I was looking for some new plants so my boyfriend and I walked in. I went straight to the back to admire the plants, which were gorgeous. My boyfriend got a little...
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Yelp.com Review - by Lisa H.

5.0 of 5 stars. If it were up to me I would put a closed sign out front and make this my apartment. Plants, animals, minerals, books, art, antiques, tea? Are you kidding me? I love it! I would consolidate the...
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Yelp.com Review - by Joe K.

5.0 of 5 stars. This place is amazing! I have a Piranha, a Puffer Fish, and some kind of mini-shark on my mantle. If I ever get ridiculously wealthy, I may need a wildebeest head in my entry way. I've seriously...
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Yelp.com Review - by rita p.

5.0 of 5 stars. Continues to have the SF market for great goods, great store display, and friendly staff. LOVE this place and always find something to buy to treat myself. Although it has been here a while on mixed...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer L.

5.0 of 5 stars. Neat. O.Did you know you can rent the taxidermied critters? You can! I expect one hell of a Halloween party from this discovery.They also have fossilized poo. I know what everyone on my naughty...
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Yelp.com Review - by Leigh A.

5.0 of 5 stars. Could be my favorite store in the whole world. I never really know what it is I'm looking for when I go in, but I always find it. About a month ago it was a succulent that is now growing in the...
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Yelp.com Review - by Alotta F.

5.0 of 5 stars. Good people, fascinating store!I bought a framed iridescent beetle from them about 9 years ago. I hung the beetle up on the wall and after a few months mites got at it and ate a few of the the legs...
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Yelp.com Review - by kelly p.

4.0 of 5 stars. so here was my husbands christmas list...raven skull.taxidermy raven.pirate eyepatch.socks.Well I knew where I needed to go.......for the socks that is.....so after freaking out about his list I asked...
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Yelp.com Review - by HM H.

5.0 of 5 stars. take out-of-town visitors here for a taste of what this city (and particularly this part of the city) is really like.
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer M.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton's Gate has walls covered with peacock feathers, eyeballs of various animals, creepy GIANT bugs, and little skeleton mice dressed up and ready to go to a tea party with the name "Tea Time with...
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Yelp.com Review - by Burleigh Girl G.

5.0 of 5 stars. My favorite store in the city... get a baby plant and grow it!
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Yelp.com Review - by Amy A.

5.0 of 5 stars. I cannot believe that I did not know about this store until now! I wandered in there with my 7-year-old nephew on Saturday. I'm not sure whose eyes were bigger, his or mine. We spent a good hour...
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Yelp.com Review - by jackie v.

5.0 of 5 stars. I took my dad here and he loved it..... Dead bugs and lotsa bones. I got some tea and a cactus. It was a happy day!
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Yelp.com Review - by dana c.

5.0 of 5 stars. i am obsessed with this store. I am a child in toys'r'us who is sitting on the ground throwing a fit because i want more. i've gotten so many cool weird plants here its to the point of ridic. i have...
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Yelp.com Review - by Angela K.

4.0 of 5 stars. Sure some items are a bit spendy but you don't have to even buy anything for the trip to be worth your while. It's like a gallery of things I will eventually break down and buy. But not necessarily...
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Yelp.com Review - by babsie g.

4.0 of 5 stars. necrophilia fantasy
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Yelp.com Review - by Carla C.

4.0 of 5 stars. This place is what my sweetest dreams are made of.Taxidermy, preserved insects, shells, carniverous plants, tea, skulls!! Seriously, way to have a store about every random thing that I love.It's a...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jaden V.

5.0 of 5 stars. Walking into Paxton Gate is like being a kid again. A sense of wonderment fills you. Remember the first time you saw something spectacular and were filled with awe... well it's a little like that,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Rocco B.

3.0 of 5 stars. I found the hip-faux-old-school-ness of this place to be a little irritating. (Signs all over the place about no cell phones, no cameras, and price tags that were made with old stamper things).I'd...
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Yelp.com Review - by ellyk E.

5.0 of 5 stars. At some point during my childhood I wanted to be an archaeologist. It was around the same time as wanting to be a marine biologist, but because I was about 6 miles from the beach and mommy and daddy...
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Yelp.com Review - by Liz S.

5.0 of 5 stars. Do you have an eccentric old aunt who lives in a run-down mansion and collects Victorian bell jars and rare mounted butterflies? A great-uncle who has his own Zen Garden and likes to practice...
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Yelp.com Review - by puck f.

3.0 of 5 stars. you know, yelp, you're right - i *might* like paxton gate, since it's next to 826 valencia. i just might, since it's down the street from dog eared. but i don't, because it's creepy. i like pirate...
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Yelp.com Review - by nic f.

5.0 of 5 stars. fine, fine, fine: hulagirl's a big weirdo. you should've seen hulamom's face when i showed her the tiny stuffed mouse dressed as hamlet i got for hulaboy in december 2005. she still hasn't...
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Yelp.com Review - by kewli o.

3.0 of 5 stars. Does taxidermy fascinate you? They have a lot of stuff here, on the walls and around the store. I also liked looking at the insects on pins.. very cool in a freaky wayNo pictures (allowed)
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Yelp.com Review - by Rashmi N.

4.0 of 5 stars. Cool. Crazy. Funky. A little Creepy.Really, you'd just have to visit to understand - but I'll do my best to paint a disjointed mental picture...Animal bones, knick knacks, live moths, tea... all this...
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Yelp.com Review - by margot b.

5.0 of 5 stars. Where else are you going to find a red fox penis bone? I also appreciate the signage pointing out that the stuffed giraffe met its demise by a leopard attack and not some nasty poaching practices....
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Yelp.com Review - by Brad C.

5.0 of 5 stars. I have always loved this store. The taxidermy is my favorite, but they have a great selection of plants and fossils and atypical accoutrement.One of my favorite purchases was a taxidermied bat, but...
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Yelp.com Review - by Lauren B.

4.0 of 5 stars. I was pretty much disgusted by this place at first. The sight of real taxidermied animals really made me ill. Hurlbarfvomit. But after going in a number of times, I realize that this place actually...
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Yelp.com Review - by Melissa B.

5.0 of 5 stars. Next time you're going to my favorite furniture store X21- swing in here!Mostly I have to applaud their amazing aesthetic, and consistency. The music and merchandise, and store design are crazy...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer F.

4.0 of 5 stars. If you like the aesthetic of natural history museums, then Paxton Gate is for you. One of these days I'll have enough money to buy a taxidermied jackalope, but until then I'll just settle for their...
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Yelp.com Review - by www.Maibaumexposed.com P.

4.0 of 5 stars. TOTALLY DIG this establishment.They even sell soap and fizzes and bubble bath ect..ect..ect..Really great
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Yelp.com Review - by William M.

1.0 of 5 stars. Amazing, perverse, a one-of-a-kind retail store with even more disturbing undertones.Look at this place from the outside and one is struck by the galloping mental unwellness on display. And the people...
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Yelp.com Review - by Anisha K.

5.0 of 5 stars. This shop will scare you as much as it will blow your mind. When you walk in, you see taxidermied animals, especially rats. And as you go further, you begin to find things like magnifying glasses,...
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Yelp.com Review - by James M.

5.0 of 5 stars. Excellent place for browsing. You have the feeling that you're walking into the home of a taxidermist with intimacy issues. Or perhaps an old man who used to go on safari lives here, and now he...
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Yelp.com Review - by Chadwick D.

5.0 of 5 stars. I am in this store about 2-3 times a month and always leave having spent money that I should have reserved for food and water. I always go overboard when I enter Paxton Gate, but never regret it....
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Yelp.com Review - by Kosmonaut K.

5.0 of 5 stars. A very unique gothic garden shop. I personally don't buy my garden supplies here (they're expensive) but I love to come in here and browse. If you're into memento mori, this is a good place to find...
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Yelp.com Review - by Robert E.

5.0 of 5 stars. This place is so damn cool. Perfect for getting christmas presents for hard to buy for people - "Here. I got you a dead thing".
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Yelp.com Review - by Sita B.

5.0 of 5 stars. "On the 13th day of Christmas my ex boyfriend gave to me....A mouse hanging from a tree." OMFG, the best gift I have ever gotten. A cute, creepy white mouse with beady little eyes and a stiff tail...
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Yelp.com Review - by Stephen M.

5.0 of 5 stars. Almost all my trips to the mission include at least a brief stop here, and with good reason: Paxton Gate feels to me the storefront result of all my eccentricities turned into commodities. Okay...
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Yelp.com Review - by jessica i.

4.0 of 5 stars. So the Edward Gorey books, bat skeleton necklaces, cat eyeballs, and petrified framed insects completely appeal to my former 15 year old Joy Division listening to-sallow faced-solitary...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jess T.

5.0 of 5 stars. one of the coolest stores in the mission. buy a pinned butterfly, a dried racoon penis or a book on bug-eating. if your twisted ass head can think it up, they probably have it here.
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Yelp.com Review - by Crystal C.

2.0 of 5 stars. Cool store, neat old padlocks, but don't bother with the landscaping business they started. Super unprofessional. Thankfully we ended our relationship once we received their estimate- which was sent...
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Yelp.com Review - by Thomas B.

5.0 of 5 stars. So there I was last summer, performing some volunteer service at 826 Valencia, tutoring children in reading and writing exercises. It didn't take me long to discover Paxton Gate, the curio shop right...
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Yelp.com Review - by Gregg B.

3.0 of 5 stars. I still love this place, dead animals and all. There's nothing equal to reaching for a $20 bar of soap with a stuffed racoon peering over you. Having had a recent rodent infestation, I have less and...
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Yelp.com Review - by jane t.

4.0 of 5 stars. Bliss. If you like taxidermy then this is one of the most amazing places to visit in the U.S. Tasteful displays, innovative work (like the mice dressed as bride and groom, certainly beats a wedding...
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Yelp.com Review - by Cat A.

5.0 of 5 stars. This a store that I could see Edward Gorey's father running in his childhood. It is fantastically eclectic and just the right dash of spooky. As well speaking with a natural history background,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Rebecca H.

5.0 of 5 stars. I am a vegetarian and an an animal lover, yet I think taxidermy is completely awesome. Weird dead animals everywhere. I have personally bought at least three dead dressed up mice (punk mouse, Jesus...
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Yelp.com Review - by Marisa L.

4.0 of 5 stars. Ran in and ran out of here on a Christmas gift-buying expedition to the Mission, when I stopped in next door at the Pirate Store @ 826 Valencia. I must come back to Paxton Gate! First impressions are...
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Yelp.com Review - by jessica s.

4.0 of 5 stars. How ballsy to have a store full of so many animal corpses in the vegetarian-friendly Valencia Corridor. This store does "good-creepy" right.
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Yelp.com Review - by Arielle S.

5.0 of 5 stars. Best store on the Valencia strip...if you have an hour to kill, it will fly by in here (none of the dead animal references intended)...I have completely re-decorated my bedroom in a "displaced nature"...
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Yelp.com Review - by City G.

5.0 of 5 stars. dried up poop, stuffed mice in bondage gear, lots of plants, and occasional art shows...whats not to love?everyone must visit at least once!
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Yelp.com Review - by Katherine R.

5.0 of 5 stars. "I'd like that lovely hyena bust in the corner, please. Sure, throw in the pickled baby shark."Cocktail, anyone?
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Yelp.com Review - by Tanya F.

5.0 of 5 stars. When I first began building my (super secret world domination machine the schematics of which you obviously wouldn't comprehend), I found the task of shopping for ingredients quite daunting. I mean,...
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Yelp.com Review - by D e v a n.

5.0 of 5 stars. When I get married, I want to register here!Even though I don't eat animals, I see nothing wrong with dressing them up in cute little outfits after they are dead.
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Yelp.com Review - by Jim G.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate specializes in natural history artifacts. It's one of the San Francisco places I miss most. The selection is eclectic but logical. You'll find rare Coleus, beakers, railroad ties,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Rachel M.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is my brother's favorite place to visit in SF. Where else can you get tea, orchids, bugs to pin and see a taxidermied Giraffe? The staff is always friendly and you really can pick up some cool...
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Yelp.com Review - by Brye L.

5.0 of 5 stars. Where else can you get skeletons dressed up for all occasions?? I love to just pop in to see what new and twisted things they are selling.
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Yelp.com Review - by coffeecake j.

5.0 of 5 stars. you know what? im upset with myself today.im upset cause i just bought a bride and groom dead mouse cake topper set at paxton gate. it was a spooky and unusual bridal shower gift. of course the bride...
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Yelp.com Review - by Tessa B.

5.0 of 5 stars. Taxidermied giraffe neck and head sticking up out of the floor? Hand-forged old fashioned metal padlocks and scissors? Glass eyes? Cool rocks & fossils? Imaginary creature-art made of bits of many...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jeremy W.

4.0 of 5 stars. Everything you could want is here. Except for the taxidermied Garden Gnome they've had backordered for, like, ever. Hey, my yard wants for authenticity.
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Yelp.com Review - by Chloe S.

5.0 of 5 stars. Buy it for me. And by 'it' I mean everything!Never had a green thumb before in my life, but wandering around the boxes of carnvirous plants, shelves of succulents, and tray upon tray of Orchids, I...
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Yelp.com Review - by Cassidy P.

5.0 of 5 stars. Ever dreamed of owning a taxidermied alligator head? How about a frog skeleton? I love the old laboratory feeling of Paxton Gate and the girliless-ness of what would otherwise could be taken for a...
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Yelp.com Review - by Josh M.

5.0 of 5 stars. My trusted source for warthog head mounts on Valentine's Day. May be the coolest store in the city.
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Yelp.com Review - by Nini M.

3.0 of 5 stars. I've been going to Paxton Gate since it was on the little Brady alley off Market. They USED to be nice guys. But they are so full of themselves now, and their prices reflect it. Way too cool 4 u....
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Yelp.com Review - by Mr. M.

5.0 of 5 stars. So I had a few extra minutes before work this morning and rather than have another cup of coffee or watch Al Roker make a fool out of himself I decided to get back to my one true love - taxidermy....
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Yelp.com Review - by ananda z.

5.0 of 5 stars. Weird. Morbid. Marvelous. Seriously twisted. Charming for kids. Preservationist yet taxidermist? The oxymorons could go on...
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Yelp.com Review - by Holly T.

5.0 of 5 stars. I happened to wander in one day, never having heard of this place. As a small kid who loved the zoo, was fairly obsessed with Chicago's natural history museum, and was constantly told: "Take those...
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Yelp.com Review - by Niaree H.

4.0 of 5 stars. i heard about this place from my roommate, and, after looking at their website, needed to take a trip myself. the store is more like a museum than a shop, which is cool; it just makes it really...
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Yelp.com Review - by frisco j.

4.0 of 5 stars. when i die, please don't bury me six feet under or scatter my ashes over some places that were once meaningful to me. instead, taxidermize me and drop me off at paxton gate. i'd get along fabulously...
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Yelp.com Review - by Curran H.

2.0 of 5 stars. I have a love-hate relationship with Paxton Gate. I love some of the unusual items they carry, and the store is airy and very appealing inside. Over the years, I've dropped many hundreds of dollars...
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Yelp.com Review - by Audrey B.

4.0 of 5 stars. After all the yelp reviews I sort of expected to walk into a dusty old curiosity shop and find an absentminded professor behind the counter....alas, the store reminded me more of a museum store at a...
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Yelp.com Review - by Karen F.

5.0 of 5 stars. FYI, most, if not all, of their specimens are not properly classified (e.g. the tags state the species, but not when and where it was found, etc). BUT, this is a good place to a) make animal-rights...
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Yelp.com Review - by Shannon M.

5.0 of 5 stars. I never put together a care package without picking up something unique from Paxton's Gate. Strange and delightful. It's also a great place to buy and sample tea.
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Wonders of the World

Only in San Francisco would you find a boutique-like shop that not only displays, but sells raccoon ...
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Paxton Gate

This store is like a garden, a science museum and a gothic kid's bedroom all at once. I stumbled up...
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Yelp.com Review - by Mike H.

5.0 of 5 stars. You know a store is good when you can't imagine what purpose people would have in buying any of the products. Full of skewered bugs, carnivorous plants, creative taxidermy, and talented shopkeepers,...
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Yelp.com Review - by Julia H.

4.0 of 5 stars. Neat shop...very eccentric plants and gifts. I love looking in there. Trying to figure out when I can buy an animal skull for a present...
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Yelp.com Review - by rene d.

5.0 of 5 stars. Simply, a beautiful place to pick up something for the person who has everything and annoys the hell out of you
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Yelp.com Review - by ed y.

5.0 of 5 stars. Back when scientists were cool magicians and true Renaissance types -- not the overly specialized social misfits that we know today -- their houses were strewn with the stuff you see at Paxton Gate....
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Yelp.com Review - by Toro E.

4.0 of 5 stars. When here after reading all the reviews expecting it to be a freaky place, but I found it to be much more tame than what I expected. I been to a store on Clark Street in Chicago (I don't know if it...
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Yelp.com Review - by Jin W.

2.0 of 5 stars. Interesting shop. It's full of oddities, such as bugs and dead stuff. I liked the weird atmosphere, though. Good place for a gift for someone who has everything.
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Yelp.com Review - by Kerry L.

5.0 of 5 stars. I never get tired of wandering through Paxton Gate. It's the only place I'll go for handmade scissors and animal skeleton dolls. Seriously.
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Yelp.com Review - by Monica M.

5.0 of 5 stars. this place is definitely one-of-a-kind. walking through this place is like walking through a wonderland gone wrong. you can buy everything from old bones of small animals to stuffed ones with costumes...
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Paxton Gate

Looking for that stuffed wombat head you've always thought would look perfect over the mantle? Paxto...
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Yelp.com Review - by Michael S.

4.0 of 5 stars. Odd little shop with some seriously odd stuff. They've got all sorts of stuffed things and clay babies in glasses (kinda sketched me out the first time I saw them). If you need a weird gift I would...
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Yelp.com Review - by Colleen B.

5.0 of 5 stars. Bugs are cool when they're petrified.
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Yelp.com Review - by Audra E.

4.0 of 5 stars. Stopped by after visiting the only pirate store in the city (826 Valencia) next door. If you loved biology in school and like stuffed animals on your wall or preserved for your viewing pleasure -...
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Yelp.com Review - by Krista F.

5.0 of 5 stars. Need a taxidermied mouse dressed up as La Virgen de Guadalupe? Make Paxton Gate your first stop. This is like Amy Sedaris' little slice of heaven in our very own backyard.
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Yelp.com Review - by Mattie G.

5.0 of 5 stars. I went in just to get a terra cotta pot, and left with a bug being framed for pick up in a week. The mice are my favorite! They dress them up in lil people clothes and make dioramas with them!...
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definately worth the trip!

this store has such a great selection of items you simply will not find anywhere else! i have never walked in there and not gotten anything b/c there is always something that catches my eye.
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Yelp.com Review - by sarah C.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is a favorite place to go while strolling Valencia. i have the cutest baby pheasant from here (he's looking at me right now) and the most beautiful sea urchin candle holder...also some...
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Yelp.com Review - by Sally K.

5.0 of 5 stars. So what I'm saying is you buy yourself an eyepatch and maybe some lard then you go next store to Paxton Gate and you buy yourself an orchid or perhaps a rat skeleton that's dressed up like Dorothy...
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Yelp.com Review - by Roger L.

5.0 of 5 stars. I'd like the Jackalope, please!
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Yelp.com Review - by Monkey S.

1.0 of 5 stars. I do love the store, but the dead lions and giraffes are not a really great selling point for animal lovers. They offer taxidermy classes here, and it's kind of gross and fascinating all at once.My...
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Yelp.com Review - by megan w.

5.0 of 5 stars. "Whimsical taxidermy" may be the world's most perfect word pairing.
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Yelp.com Review - by mokirobinson m.

4.0 of 5 stars. In the spirit of megan w.:I want all the mice in outfits!This is the store for the person who has everything. And a predilection for the slightly morbid.
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Yelp.com Review - by Nikki M.

5.0 of 5 stars. Who doesn't love stuffed mice dressed up like a bride and groom?
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Yelp.com Review - by Kevin A.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is a store that doesn't shy away from the beauty of mortality and life. The moment I walked in off the street with a friend, we were instantly enchanted by what it had to offer those with a taste...
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Yelp.com Review - by TANYA P.

5.0 of 5 stars. Oh dear. After reading the other postings, I am not sure whether I should be embarassed to say that this has been my favorite store for quite a number of years...Primarily for unusual plant needs and...
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Yelp.com Review - by charlotte s.

1.0 of 5 stars. this place is scary... they have a stuffed lion and also a stuffed giraffe plus other stuffed animals... poor things...i'd rather go next door and say hi to karl!
yelp.com - user review - 11/17/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Katie T.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is what would happen if the Museum of Natural history in New York, decided to shut down and put all of their most fascinating oddities up for sale. I never knew I wanted a giraffe head or...
yelp.com - user review - 10/09/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by O K.

5.0 of 5 stars. Wow.. this store is great. It's like something you'd find near the British Museum in London.. really bizarre, mad professor, ancient fossil type things.. complete with a STUFFED GIRAFFE NECK/HEAD and...
yelp.com - user review - 08/26/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Christopher N.

4.0 of 5 stars. Sean Quigley has a good thing going here. For all the knick-knacks and errata, bear in mind that paxton gate is also a great place to pick up specialty landscaping supplies.
yelp.com - user review - 08/22/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Sarah S.

5.0 of 5 stars. This place is great. I love the stuffed mouse that looks like the Pope.
yelp.com - user review - 08/11/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Gabriel S.

5.0 of 5 stars. The San Francisco-ized version of Paris' Deyrolle (http://www.pbase.com/al309/paris1). It's the place you go to find a gift for that difficult-to-shop-for bizarre someone in your life after they...
yelp.com - user review - 07/26/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Andi T.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is one of the weirdest stores ever... lovely rusty gates, glass eyes, and all kinds of preserved dead things -- some in little outfits. Bring a friend so you can shriek and point to things with...
yelp.com - user review - 07/10/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Stuart J.

4.0 of 5 stars. Almost too bizarre for words, but in a very organic (in every respect) way. This is a perfect place to take your out of townie friends. Emphasize that you just have to pop in for some more penis bones...
yelp.com - user review - 06/29/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Mitzi Y.

5.0 of 5 stars. This store. is. amazing. Taxidermy enthusiast's dream. It felt like walking into Marilyn Manson's foyer, I heard he is into "stuffed animals". You have to see it to really know what is going on in...
yelp.com - user review - 06/27/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Nicholas M.

3.0 of 5 stars. You can buy fake eyes of all shapes and sizes; which reminds me, rather, that I could use some new lapel pins. They also have a book about eating insects, with a photo of a woman chomping down on what...
yelp.com - user review - 06/01/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Mike W.

5.0 of 5 stars. There is nothing quite like Paxton Gate. It's a . . . not sure what, it's like your goth little brother and your auntie who's a retired Cal biology prof opened a store together. Plants, taxidermied...
yelp.com - user review - 05/22/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by little gem z.

5.0 of 5 stars. why go to a local hardware store to buy a boring pothos plant when you could buy crazy weird pitcher plants to eat your bugs? why hang a lame target frame on your wall when you can have a framed...
yelp.com - user review - 04/25/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Jude F.

5.0 of 5 stars. Paxton Gate is one of my favorite places to take first-time visitors to the Mission. It convinces them in a hurry that they're not in Kansas anymore. You can buy dried raccoon penises -- now that's...
yelp.com - user review - 04/22/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Davi M.

5.0 of 5 stars. An amazing array of strange plants, taxidermied animals and pinned bugs. There is nothing dull in here. The perfect place to buy unique gifts because there is no other store like it in town. Take for...
yelp.com - user review - 04/19/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Jeremy S.

5.0 of 5 stars. After reading Arwen's review, I decided I needed to check this place out. I'm pretty sure this is the coolest store I've ever been to. You feel like you are in the private home of an insane natural...
yelp.com - user review - 04/16/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by T-Bone L.

5.0 of 5 stars. Wonderful wonderland of a shop. Love the bugs, butterflies and skeletons.
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Nish N.

4.0 of 5 stars. Stuffed mice, exotic plants, dead insects, it's all here for the taking.
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Arwen O.

5.0 of 5 stars. The first time I went here, they had a quote from a customer written on a slate in the window: "Paxton Gate is Smith & Hawken on LSD." I couldn't stop laughing. It's true! This place is a natural...
yelp.com - user review - 03/06/2005
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