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Minnesota’s OddStops reward people who like shelves, grounds, and workshops that refuse to stay in one category. LARK Toys combines on-site toy making, a vast toy shop, carousel, mini golf, and playful displays in Kellogg. Ax-Man Surplus — St. Paul offers a constantly changing St. Paul inventory of scientific, industrial, electronic, and inexplicable surplus. In Minneapolis, Wild Rumpus Books turns an independent children’s bookstore into an animal-filled environment with imaginative architecture. These very different profiles are useful starting points; Minnesota’s complete current directory follows below.

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St. Paul, MN
Ax-Man Surplus — St. Paul
A St. Paul surplus store where scientific, industrial, electronic and mechanical leftovers share bins with art supplies, teacher materials, failed consumer products and mysterious manufactured objects that may arrive without an obvious original purpose.
Ax-Man Surplus has spent decades turning unwanted industrial and scientific inventory into a retail treasure hunt for artists, engineers, teachers, makers and anyone drawn to inexplicable components.
Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeAutomotive & mechanicalGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
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Woodbury, MN
Dollar Hobbyz Raceway
Dollar Hobbyz Raceway turns a retail hobby operation with a polished indoor RC raceway into a visitable hobby destination.
Dollar Hobbyz Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Woodbury, MN.
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
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Lakeville, MN
Hot Sam's Antiques & Foto Park
A Lakeville-area antique cabin surrounded by roughly 10 acres of roadside fever dream: old cars, railroad and circus pieces, giant salvaged constructions, rockets, sculptures and surreal photo sets assembled around a real antiques-and-collectibles shop.
Hot Sam's combines a functioning antique store with a sprawling outdoor Foto Park built from junk, vehicles, salvaged materials and oversized roadside art.
Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmade+2 more
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Kellogg, MN
LARK Toys
A Kellogg toy store where handmade wooden toys are built on-site beside a bookstore, Curiosity Shoppe and antique-toy displays — then the building opens into a hand-carved carousel, café and sweets, miniature llamas and seasonal 18-hole mini-golf.
LARK Toys combines serious specialty retail and on-site toy making with books, gifts, food, an antique toy collection, living animals, a hand-carved carousel and seasonal mini-golf.
Food & drinkBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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Jordan, MN
Minnesota's Largest Candy Store
A giant yellow roadside candy barn outside Jordan where mountains of sweets and an enormous soda selection collide with pies, Minnesota farm foods, meats, cheeses, pickles, puzzles, superhero murals, an animatronic band and a fortune-telling machine.
Minnesota's Largest Candy Store stretches the candy-shop idea into a seasonal roadside emporium of soda, baked goods, local pantry food, puzzles and elaborate pop-culture spectacle.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryToys, games & hobbies+2 more
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Minneapolis, MN
Wild Rumpus Books
A Minneapolis children's bookstore where shelves of picture books, young-adult titles and grown-up reading share the room with a changing menagerie of resident animals — current 2026 reporting confirms cats, chinchillas, birds, a gecko and fish.
Wild Rumpus is a serious independent bookstore built around the idea that a bookshop can also feel like a living storybook habitat.
Books, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Books, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther