Winning “Best New Junk Shop with the Realest Name”, Dead People’s Things has been keeping it real since they opened and won the title in 2017. In the fashion of Hail Dark Aesthetics, our next location is another unusual shopping experience that has also graced Nashville Scene’s “Best of” list, though if you’re one to mince your words or prefer a sugar coating regarding how your favorite thrift store finds are sourced, you may want to skip this one. Whether you’re in the neighborhood for a new tarot deck, a snakeskin wrapped coyote skull, or a coloring book starring Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead fame, you’re in the right place (though your church-going grandma may beg to differ). But rest assured, if you’re not into dead animals, Charles Manson biographies and ouija boards, they’ve also got less controversial fare like an impressive collection of vintage concert tees, racks upon racks of upcycled retro shoes, clothes, and accessories, and fairly innocuous pop culture flavored magnets and buttons. This truly unique boutique has a wide range of offerings catering to shoppers with a taste for all things creepy and cool, though if you’re particularly religious (or squeamish for that matter) you may want to pass as the store was named “Best Place to Buy Devil Stuff” in Scene’s annual “Best of Nashville” in 2014. Or maybe if Urban Outfitters merged with Hot Topic and started specializing in taxidermy? Either way, Welcome to Hail Dark Aesthetics, where a patron is likely to experience shock, awe, delight, and disgust (possibly all at the same time).
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Imagine Indiana Jones and Wednesday Adams had a love child who opened a fanciful boutique full of macabre oddities and curios. This cultural mashup is a can’t miss on any trip to Nashville, though whether you wear a toga or your cowboy boots is up to you.
The room features other ornate carvings of Greco gods and heroes and also functions as an art gallery, boasting a beautiful permanent collection of around 60 paintings from the 19th and 20th century. In the nineties, a 42 foot statue of Greek goddess of war Athena was made, making the Parthenon home to the largest indoor statue in the western hemisphere. However, the building proved so wildly popular with Centennial crowds, it was replaced with a more permanent rendition.
Nashville was trying to push the nickname “Athens of the South” to promote their image as a progessive city where education and fine arts were of great value and with this temporary attraction for the fair they hoped to cement this claim. Love Greek mythology but can’t swing a trip overseas? Or perhaps you’ve got a craving for both country music AND neo-classical architecture at the same time? Fear not, for just west of downtown Nashville lies a full scale replica of everyone’s favorite Greecian wonder, the Parthenon! What in the Dolly Parton is a duplicate Parthenon is doing in the heart of Nashville, you ask? Well, in 1897, the building was commissioned for Tennessee’s Centennial Exposition, which was to be held in the park that formerly been used for horse racing and state fairgrounds.
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