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There's a giant store in Alabama that sells your lost luggage to strangers
The Unclaimed Baggage Center attracts around one million visitors a year from all over the country, plus 40 more. Americans who have ever wondered where their lost luggage ends up might not expect it be a store in Alabama. Scottsboro, Alabama, is home to the Unclaimed Baggage Center, a 40,000 square-foot warehouse filled with items gleaned from luggage lost all over the country. The store got its start in 1970, when an entrepreneurial-minded part-time insurance salesman had the idea of selling luggage that was left behind at a bus station in DC. He started buying bags from the station and selling their contents on ... (full story)