Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar turned a 1952 bar-top gimmick into an entire Montana travel complex where the growing coin collection is surrounded by retail, food, fuel and lodging.

Little A'Le'Inn bundles nearly every service a traveler might need into one deliberately extraterrestrial roadside business.

Madison Dry Goods and Country Store combines present-day country-store retail with an upstairs museum and a building history that gives the destination an unusually layered identity.

Mardi Gras Zone is both a working neighborhood supermarket and a year-round source for costumes, masks, wigs, beads, cosmetics, decorations and New Orleans gifts.

Master’s Hand gathers handmade sweets, candles, bakery food, boutique retail, floral work and sit-down dining into one country property.

Memento Mori Los Angeles combines macabre natural-history material with the inventory of a bookshop, jewelry boutique, home store, coffee-and-tea shelf, art gallery, apparel shop, divination counter, and classroom.

Mortem Manor and Post Mortem Horror Bootique combine a permanent walk-through haunt with substantial horror retail inside Kissimmee’s Old Town entertainment district.

Mountain Meadow Wool Mill lets shoppers follow Wyoming wool from raw fiber to finished yarn and apparel without leaving the production building.

The Mt. Rushmore Black Hills Gold Factory links jewelry retail directly to the specialized manufacturing process behind the products.

Nome Schoolhouse combines a historic school, working fiber mill and substantial fiber-goods shop with classes and tours on the same rural property.

Pendleton Mill Store connects substantial wool-goods retail directly to the active historic mill behind it.

Perry's Nut House keeps the old American roadside-attraction formula alive by combining a working candy, fudge, nut and gift business with a restored assortment of strange displays and visual gags.