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Iowa’s unusual shopping ranges from highway spectacle to rural abundance and preserved mercantile history. Iowa 80 Truckstop operates like a small roadside city in Walcott, combining travel services, food, retail, displays, and entertainment at enormous scale. Dutchman's Store packs clothing, fabric, groceries, bulk food, gifts, toys, and practical goods into a destination general store in Cantril. At High Amana General Store the historic building, fixtures, and old-fashioned merchandise make the setting part of the experience. Use these as contrasting anchors, then continue through Iowa’s complete current list below.

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  • Interior of Abernathy's current Davenport shop with vintage clothing, art, décor, and display cases
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    Davenport, IA

    Abernathy's

    A Davenport shop proudly built around 'Vintage, Handmade, and Weird,' where decades of clothing, gothic fashion, handmade jewelry, local art, antiques, bones, macabre objects, tarot goods and oddities occupy the same colorful storefront.

    Abernathy's blends serious vintage and alternative fashion with handmade art, jewelry, antiques, oddities and macabre merchandise in a downtown Davenport store that treats 'weird' as one of its core departments.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureAntiques & vintage+3 more
  • Wide exterior of the current Dutchman's Store building along Highway 2 near Cantril at sunset
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    Cantril, IA

    Dutchman's Store

    A 50,000-square-foot Cantril general store where bulk groceries, bakery and deli counters lead into books, clothing, toys, butchering and canning supplies, kitchen goods, homestead gear, sporting goods, health products, and a café serving pizza and a hot lunch buffet.

    Dutchman's Store takes the old rural general-store idea to enormous scale, combining groceries and fresh food with clothing, books, toys, household supplies, butchering gear, canning equipment, sporting goods and café service.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishing+7 more
  • Exterior of the sandstone High Amana General Store with its 1857 sign above the entrance
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    High Amana, IA

    High Amana General Store

    An operating general store founded in 1857 where gifts, food, toys, books, housewares and handmade soaps are still sold among original wooden floors, glass display cases and a tin ceiling preserved from another era.

    High Amana General Store is both a working shop and a preserved retail museum, selling modern merchandise inside an 1857 store whose historic interior has changed remarkably little.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • Current brick exterior of Historic Greef General Store in Bentonsport with its porch and storefront sign
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    Bentonsport, IA

    Historic Greef General Store

    An 1840s Bentonsport general store reborn as three floors of antiques, handmade Iowa crafts, local-history displays and memorabilia, with old-fashioned Addie May Fudge made and sold inside the same historic building.

    Historic Greef General Store layers an antique-and-craft shop, artifact displays and a working fudge business into a restored 1840s storefront beside the Des Moines River.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+4 more
  • Exterior entrance of Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott beneath its large illuminated Iowa 80 sign
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    Walcott, IA

    Iowa 80 Truckstop

    A Walcott truck stop that has grown into a roadside city of gifts, truck accessories, restaurants, a barber, dentist, chiropractor, movie theater, pet wash, massive showroom, and its own trucking museum.

    Iowa 80 Truckstop turns a highway fuel stop into an enormous retail, dining, service and entertainment complex where travelers can shop, eat, watch a movie, visit a museum, see a dentist, wash a dog and outfit an entire semi without leaving the property.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsAutomotive & mechanicalServices & repairsFuel & convenienceOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+6 more
  • Trackside at Crash’n Bash Hobbies radio-control racing destination in Cedar Rapids, IA
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    Cedar Rapids, IA

    Trackside at Crash’n Bash Hobbies

    Trackside at Crash’n Bash Hobbies turns a densely stocked hobby store paired with an indoor RC track into a visitable hobby destination.

    Trackside at Crash’n Bash Hobbies combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Cedar Rapids, IA.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
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