There’s a moment when you walk into Paramount Marketplace Antiques in Wichita when your inner treasure hunter does a little happy dance – you know, that feeling when you’ve stumbled upon something so perfectly chaotic and wonderful that you might need to cancel your afternoon plans.
This sprawling wonderland of vintage goodies sits unassumingly in Wichita, like that modest house on your block that turns out to have a secret room filled with chocolate fountains and mini-giraffes.
Paramount Marketplace isn’t just an antique store – it’s more like a museum where everything’s for sale and touching is not only allowed but encouraged.
The exterior might not scream “architectural masterpiece” – it’s housed in what appears to be a former retail space with that distinctly practical Midwestern sensibility – but that’s part of its charm…