Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

A Darkness Lovely combines gothic gifts and curiosities with books, divination, art and jewelry, then adds The Stitching Hour fiber-arts shop inside the same Main Street storefront and serves as the retail base for Haunted Galena tours.

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.

Abita Mystery House pairs an eccentric roadside museum with an active gift shop carrying its own books, prints, postcards, shirts, toys and other offbeat souvenirs.

Afterlife combines taxidermy, wet specimens, antique literature, anatomical curiosities, unusual collectibles, and a private appointment-based tattoo studio.

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.

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 Science & Surplus turns closeouts, overruns, scientific equipment and miscellaneous industrial leftovers into an employee-owned store where useful tools, educational gear, toys and inexplicable components occupy the same aisles.

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

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.

Barberville Yard Art Emporium turns outdoor décor shopping into a roadside attraction, spreading giant animals, metal sculptures, fountains, pottery, furniture, mailboxes and handmade art across three acres.

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