Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

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.

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

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

Cowtown combines one of South Jersey's largest long-running vendor markets with a seasonal professional rodeo born from the same family-run commercial complex.

Digger’s Dungeon is a working Grave Digger merchandise stop and monster-truck fan destination with displays and a museum component at the team’s recognizable Poplar Branch property.

Frontier works because the commercial side is substantial: a real antiques-and-collectibles shop and café share the destination with an immersive automotive museum rather than functioning as a token museum gift counter.

Iowa 80 Truckstop turns a highway fuel stop into an enormous retail, dining, service and entertainment complex where travelers can shop, eat, watch a movie, visit a museum, see a dentist, wash a dog and outfit an entire semi without leaving the property.

M Schettl's County Road S property mixes building supplies, hardware, trailers and household goods with oversized sculptures and a photo-worthy outdoor display landscape.

Motion Unlimited is simultaneously a curated automotive museum and a functioning classic-car business where many other vintage vehicles are actively bought and sold.

Old Riverton Store remains a functioning grocery and deli inside its 1925 Route 66 building, mixing sandwiches and everyday necessities with souvenirs, local goods and a remarkably intact roadside-store experience.

Roosevelt Tower stretches thrift shopping across an old factory property, mixing antiques and salvage with records, machines, motorcycles, taxidermy, toys, militaria, electronics, signage, collectibles, and oversized objects backed by a huge warehouse.

Slanesville General Store may be the purest 'what kind of store is this?' entry in West Virginia, functioning at once as a retailer, restaurant, farm-supply house and small-town service center.