Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

826 Valencia hides its flagship writing center behind a fully committed Pirate Supply Store, combining books, student publishing, stationery, pirate merchandise, adventuring supplies, and interactive retail absurdity.

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.

Aladdin feels less like a recreated historic attraction than a 19th-century mercantile that simply kept adapting to modern travelers.

Alaska Fur Exchange combines a working fur retailer with the feel of a natural-history cabinet and Alaska craft market, filling the shop with furs, fossils, ivory, antler, carvings, art, jewelry, knives, baskets, and mounted animals.

Alaska Wild Berry Products combines a working candy factory with a large specialty-food and gift store, letting visitors watch sweets being made while browsing wild-berry products, seafood, meats, souvenirs, apparel, and other Alaska goods.

Alexander's Store takes the old general-store idea to warehouse scale, combining fashion, footwear, furniture, outdoor and sporting goods, jewelry, local handmade work, food and collectibles inside a family-owned Blairsville institution.

American Oddities Museum combines macabre American history, sideshow and medical material, funerary artifacts and paranormal lore with an expanded gift shop, bookstore and event program at its new Piasa Street home.

Angoon Trading Co. serves the Admiralty Island community as far more than a grocery store, combining everyday food with hardware, building supplies, clothing, gifts, freight logistics, and coffee in one independent shop.

Apple Hill Farm combines a working fiber-animal farm with a substantial farm store and separately scheduled guided tours of its animal areas.

Area 51 Alien Center turns a functioning highway service stop into a full extraterrestrial retail environment without losing the practical fuel, food and traveler services underneath it.

Bass Pro Shops’ original flagship operates simultaneously as a massive outdoor retailer, wildlife environment, boat-and-vehicle showroom, restaurant and museum complex.

Bazaar mixes natural-history specimens, taxidermy, bones, preserved insects, jewelry, art, candles, and morbid novelties inside a compact Baltimore storefront.