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Unique Stores in Louisiana

Louisiana’s OddStops layer living mercantile history with Carnival culture, folk-art mystery, and imaginative retail. Abita Mystery House surrounds its Abita Springs gift shop with homemade inventions, regional oddities, arcade machines, and a roadside folk-art museum. In New Orleans, Mardi Gras Zone Supermarket places groceries and prepared food beside a year-round concentration of costumes, masks, beads, and party supplies. Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile keeps an older retail rhythm alive in Natchitoches through hardware, housewares, toys, gifts, and historic fixtures. The complete Louisiana list below adds still more combinations.

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Abita Springs, LA
Abita Mystery House
A roadside folk-art museum of handmade inventions, miniature scenes, old arcade machines and thousands of found objects, entered through a working gift shop in a vintage gas-station setting.
Abita Mystery House pairs an eccentric roadside museum with an active gift shop carrying its own books, prints, postcards, shirts, toys and other offbeat souvenirs.
Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmade+2 more
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Covington, LA
H.J. Smith's Son General Store & Museum
A family-run Covington hardware and general store dating to 1876, with modern practical goods sharing the building with a free collection of local commercial and household artifacts.
H.J. Smith's Son combines an operating hardware and general store with a densely packed family museum that includes a cypress dugout, old tools, a cast-iron casket and other artifacts.
Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
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Natchitoches, LA
Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile
A continuously operating Natchitoches mercantile founded in 1863, where hardware, cookware, classic toys and upstairs gifts share an 1890s building with working historic equipment.
Kaffie-Frederick combines practical hardware and housewares with classic toys and an upstairs gift shop inside a nineteenth-century Front Street store that still uses historic retail equipment.
Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbies+2 more
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New Orleans, LA
Mardi Gras Zone Supermarket
A late-night Bywater supermarket where groceries and specialty foods meet an expansive year-round Mardi Gras department of costumes, masks, wigs, beads and party supplies.
Mardi Gras Zone is both a working neighborhood supermarket and a year-round source for costumes, masks, wigs, beads, cosmetics, decorations and New Orleans gifts.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+3 more
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Wisner, LA
Pit Stop RC Raceway
Pit Stop RC Raceway turns a purpose-built outdoor dirt RC track on a rural racing property into a visitable hobby destination.
Pit Stop RC Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Wisner, LA.
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
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New Orleans, LA
She Comes in Peace
A bright sci-fi and fantasy costume boutique joined to a creative hair salon, with wigs, horns, masks, headdresses and handmade pieces surrounding a crystal-cavern-inspired shampoo room.
She Comes in Peace combines a fantasy and science-fiction costume shop with a creative-color hair salon, handmade statement pieces and a highly theatrical interior.
Apparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careServices & repairsOther
Apparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs+3 more