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New Mexico’s unusual stores connect everyday service with Native art, roadside agriculture, film history, and remote trading-post traditions. Duran Central Pharmacy keeps an Albuquerque pharmacy, specialty shop, and diner under one roof. Near Alamogordo, McGinn's PistachioLand turns a pistachio farm, winery, country store, and giant roadside nut into one memorable stop. On the Navajo Nation, Toadlena Trading Post joins contemporary weaving commerce to a museum documenting local textile traditions. Start with food, craft, or living retail history, then browse every current New Mexico profile below.
NMAlbuquerque, NM
ARCOR Raceway turns an outdoor club track in Mesa del Sol built for off-road RC racing into a visitable hobby destination.
ARCOR Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Albuquerque, NM.
NMCerrillos, NM
A Cerrillos trading post where turquoise jewelry, rocks, minerals, bottles and desert curios fill a sprawling adobe property that also contains a mining museum and a petting zoo of goats, a llama, chickens and other animals.
Casa Grande combines a working turquoise-and-rock trading post with a dense private mining-history collection and an animal yard, turning one family-built adobe property into shop, museum and petting zoo.
NMAlbuquerque, NM
An Albuquerque pharmacy where prescriptions and vaccinations share a Route 66 building with an eclectic gift shop and a full New Mexican diner serving hand-rolled tortillas, chile-heavy plates and lunch-counter comfort food.
Duran Central Pharmacy is simultaneously a working neighborhood pharmacy, an unusually broad specialty shop and a serious New Mexican diner—a combination that makes an everyday errand feel like three unrelated businesses occupying one institution.
NMAlamogordo, NM
An Alamogordo pistachio farm where the orchard feeds a sprawling country store, candy and ice-cream operation, winery and tasting room, while motorized farm tours roll past the trees beneath a roughly 30-foot pistachio roadside monument.
McGinn's PistachioLand turns a working pistachio orchard and vineyard into a retail-and-roadside destination built around farm-made food, wine, tours, sampling and an enormous pistachio sculpture.
NMNambé, NM
A historic Nambé-area trading post where Navajo rugs, pottery, jewelry, fine art and Southwestern textiles share the property with a museum of Western-film costumes and props assembled through decades of work in movie costume design.
Nambe Trading Post mixes serious Southwestern art and textile retail with jewelry, historic material culture and an integrated Western-film costume museum.
NMToadlena, NM
A remote Navajo Nation trading post where contemporary Toadlena and Two Grey Hills rugs are still bought and sold alongside a weaving museum that traces generations of local artists, family lineages, historic textiles and the evolution of one of the Southwest's most distinctive weaving traditions.
Toadlena Trading Post remains both a working marketplace for local weaving and a museum/archive devoted to the artists and families who built the Toadlena/Two Grey Hills tradition.