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Unique Stores in Massachusetts

Massachusetts’s OddStops range from historic counters to enormous experiential stores where the side attractions can rival the merchandise. Jordan's Furniture — Reading turns a Reading furniture showroom into a destination with entertainment experiences alongside the retail floor. In South Deerfield, Yankee Candle Village expands candle shopping into themed rooms, gifts, food, and year-round spectacle. Across the state in Cambridge, The Garment District & Boston Costume combines vintage and alternative clothing, costume rental, and by-the-pound shopping inside a warehouse-scale operation. These profiles show the range before the complete Massachusetts directory below.

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  • Snow-covered yellow Davoll's General Store exterior in South Dartmouth with the historic store sign above the entrance
    MA

    South Dartmouth, MA

    Davoll's General Store

    A South Dartmouth general store operating since 1793 where milk, eggs, pantry goods and penny candy share an old mercantile with an independent bookstore, antiques, toys, home goods, a café/pub and evenings of music, trivia, readings and neighborhood gatherings.

    Davoll's keeps the historic general-store model alive by combining everyday groceries and gifts with a real independent bookstore, café/pub and community programming inside a business whose roots reach back to 1793.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaAntiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & media+5 more
  • Wide interior of the Reading Jordan's Furniture Beantown area with the two-level ropes course, zip-line rails and oversized jellybean-themed sculptures
    MA

    Reading, MA

    Jordan's Furniture — Reading

    A full-scale Reading furniture store where sofas, mattresses and dining sets share the building with giant jellybeans, a two-level indoor ropes course and zip line, restaurants and an 80-by-60-foot IMAX theater seating roughly 500 moviegoers.

    Jordan's Furniture in Reading treats furniture shopping as only one part of the building, surrounding its working home-furnishings operation with a genuine ropes-and-zip-line attraction, giant jellybean sculptures, food stops and a commercial IMAX theater.

    Home goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Home goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • RC Excitement radio-control racing destination in Fitchburg, MA
    MA

    Fitchburg, MA

    RC Excitement

    RC Excitement turns a large hobby destination with indoor and outdoor RC facilities into a visitable hobby destination.

    RC Excitement combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Fitchburg, MA.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Shopper searching the current By The Pound clothing floor beneath a pink Garment District sign inside 200 Broadway in Cambridge
    MA

    Cambridge, MA

    The Garment District & Boston Costume

    A 12,000-plus-square-foot Cambridge 'alternative department store' with 40,000+ new, used and vintage clothing items, a floor where secondhand clothes are sold by weight, and Boston Costume's thousands of theatrical rentals, wigs, masks, makeup and retail costumes.

    The Garment District turns clothing retail into three overlapping businesses: a massive vintage-and-contemporary store, the hunt-through By The Pound operation and Boston Costume's theatrical rental and retail warehouse.

    Apparel & footwearAntiques & vintageGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Apparel & footwearAntiques & vintageGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Life-size witch cottage and curiosity displays inside The Lost Library in Salem
    MA

    Salem, MA

    The Lost Library

    A Salem gift shop arranged around a life-size witch’s cottage, a curiosity cabinet, gothic library shelves, mystical décor, local work, and an enormous glowing pumpkin.

    The Lost Library turns its retail floor into a walk-through fantasy environment where books, witchy gifts, curiosities, jewelry, art, and Salem souvenirs gather around a built-in cottage and theatrical displays.

    Books, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmade+2 more
  • Yankee Candle Village flagship exterior in South Deerfield with the red Village sign above the landscaped entrance
    MA

    South Deerfield, MA

    Yankee Candle Village

    A South Deerfield candle flagship where the company's 200,000-candle emporium expands into a custom scent bar, hands-on Wax Works, a general store and gift boutique, fudge and more than 125 kinds of candy beneath a seven-foot gumball machine.

    Yankee Candle Village takes an already enormous candle store and layers on candle-making experiences, home-and-garden retail, gifts, candy, fudge, food and seasonal attractions until the flagship behaves more like an indoor retail village than a normal brand store.

    Home goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeFood & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Home goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeFood & drink+3 more