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Scottsboro, Alabama: Unclaimed Baggage Center

All those bags that go unclaimed at the airport? Well, many of them end up in Scottsboro, Alabama at the Unclaimed Baggage Center. The “store” spans more than an entire city block and allows visitors to buy anything they find.

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Just so you know, this is the only shop of its type in the country. And as you can imagine, the Unclaimed Baggage Center gets some serious traffic, which reaches more than a million visitors every year. So if you’re wondering where suitcase with your now outdated clothes and your favorite Walkman went from your trip back in 1997, maybe it ended up here.