Take a look inside the tiny shopping mall inside Barbra Streisand's basement

Speaking to "CBS Mornings" host Gayle King about the mall and her love of collecting earlier this month, Streisand said she didn't have a doll growing up.

"I didn't have a doll, so I put hot water into a hot water bottle which felt like a real person," she said.

Streisand previously recalled the hot water bottle story while speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2009.

"When you don't have things, you have to use your imagination," she said at the time.

The star also remembered growing up in a one-room apartment with her mother and brother.

"I grew up in Williamsburg until I was 7, and that was a $40-a-month apartment," Streisand told Oprah. "I lived in one room with my mother, in the same bed, and my brother had a foldaway cot in the same room."

The gift shop lets Streisand show off all the antiques she's collected over the years, including ornaments and glassware.

Taking Stephen Colbert on a tour of the shop, Streisand showed off a Christmas tree ornament that looked like one of her dogs.

Streisand also pulled out some antique Chinese shoes for children, as well as pink glassware.

The star showed Gayle King some of the clothes she's worn over the years that are now in her antique clothes shop, including dresses she wore while meeting President John F. Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth.

Streisand showed King the embroidered purple cloak she wore when she met the late queen in 1975 at the premiere of the "Funny Girl" sequel, "Funny Lady."

Streisand also includes secondhand clothes in her collection. "This was 10 bucks," she said, pointing to a purple shirt. "I feel right in something that had a life in it — something from the past that I felt like I was once there.

Harper's Bazaar reported in 2010 that Streisand stocks her sweet shop with a variety of treats, including frozen yogurt, popcorn, and licorice. She often opens the store when she hosts screening parties at home, though sometimes she takes guests there after dinner.

Speaking at Entertainment Weekly's EW Fest in October 2015, Ryan Murphy recalled getting a tour of the mall after having dinner with Streisand, James Brolin, Lady Gaga, and John Travolta.

"And after dinner, she said, 'Do you want to see the mall?' And Gaga and I were out of that chair so fast… We went down to the mall and spent an hour down there," said the "American Horror Story" creator.

"She pulled out her collection of gowns from 'Funny Girl' and 'Hello, Dolly!'" Murphy remembered. "And then she said, 'Do you want frozen yogurt?' I could write a whole book about that night."