Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

East By West mixes international gifts, clothing, souvenirs, jewelry, soaps, and assorted curiosities with one of Eureka Springs' strangest retail traditions: working rabbits that help customers at the checkout counter.

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a real retail front for 826LA's youth-writing programs, selling books, toys, household goods, apparel, stationery, and student publications alongside fictional survival supplies supposedly imported from the past and future.

Edwards Mill combines specialty-food and craft retail with the machinery and student work that produce much of what visitors buy.

Fae's Cabinet turns a large rotating artist collective into a curiosity shop, mixing handmade work with natural specimens, taxidermy, plants, jewelry, body-care goods and stranger one-of-a-kind creations.

Fiesta's Newell outlet turns dinnerware shopping into an industrial retail experience by pairing factory seconds with the active manufacturing campus behind them.

Fort Cody Trading Post turns a Nebraska souvenir stop into a full roadside attraction with museum rooms, outdoor displays and a miniature Wild West show.

Frank Miranda's Oddities & Antiques stretches an antique shop into a museum-like collection of taxidermy, medical curiosities, dolls, specimens, vintage clothing, art, ephemera and strange objects gathered by artist and collector Frank Miranda.

Gap Mercantile preserves the feel of a Depression-era country store while mixing old-fashioned candy and pantry goods with heirloom seeds, antiques, farm tools, handmade crafts, books, soaps, local history, and an overnight cottage built into the rear of the property.

Gather combines glass art, a working studio, classes and custom work with an adjoining small-batch ice-cream café built around views into the hot shop.

Gem Mountain combines hands-on sapphire hunting and serious gemstone retail with an unexpectedly broad showroom of fossils, furniture, carvings and natural-history décor.

The downtown Goo Goo flagship combines Nashville candy retail with custom digital kiosks, visible hand-finishing, bonbons and ticketed chocolate experiences.

The Great American Dollhouse Museum pairs more than 200 miniature buildings and room boxes with a fully stocked lobby shop for dollhouse furniture, structures, components, décor and artisan miniatures.