Scottsboro, Alabama
When an airline can’t track down the owner of some lost luggage, where does it go? The answer is that it goes to Unclaimed Baggage, a retail store in Scottsboro, Alabama, that has contracts with every major airline in the nation to purchase their unclaimed luggage and resell it to people looking for bargains.
Despite sounding like the world’s biggest lost and found, Alabama Travel said Unclaimed Baggage attracts millions of customers every year to its single 50,000-square-foot location. Seven thousand new items are added to the store’s collection each day and consist of clothing, jewelry, electronics, books, sporting goods, and various other accessories that travelers never claimed. It also features a small museum of lost luggage, as shown here.