Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Berdoll combines pecan processing, candy and pie production, broad Texas gift retail, a giant squirrel landmark and an around-the-clock pie machine.

Big Chicken Barn turns a relic of Maine's poultry era into a two-story collecting universe: antiques and household objects below, mountains of books, magazines, newspapers and paper ephemera above.

Big Mike's combines rocks, minerals, crystals, fossils, jewelry and Kentucky souvenirs with geode cutting, a giant roadside Mosasaurus and an old-school optical-illusion attraction.

The Brenham Blue Bell destination combines branded retail and ice-cream service with company history and self-guided views of active packaging lines.

Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. is both a playful superhero store and the public front for a nonprofit writing center reached through a concealed passage.

Buck Atom’s turns an active souvenir and local-art shop into its own modern Route 66 roadside attraction through a restored filling-station setting and giant custom Muffler Men.

Cabela’s Sidney combines a full outdoor retail store with museum-scale wildlife displays and the history of the company’s Nebraska beginnings.

Call of the Wild combines a substantial independent retail floor with a long-running wildlife and Michigan-history museum, then adds seasonal miniature-golf and go-kart attractions to the same roadside property.

Cameron Trading Post has grown from a 1916 trading post into a large retail and travel stop combining Native American art and craft with food, clothing, housewares, toys, collectibles, knives, a market, restaurant, lodging, and other traveler services.

Caufield's combines a professional costume and theatrical-supply business with horror props, practical jokes, party goods, magic, seasonal spectacle and a giant vampire bat on its Main Street building.

Chulita Hill links a working goat farm and creamery to direct retail for artisan cheese, goat-milk soap, pantry goods and other small-batch products.

Cleveland Curiosities combines taxidermy, bones, natural-history specimens, medical antiques, sideshow material, vintage objects, clothing, and unusual collectibles.