Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

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

The Buckland Museum combines exhibits about witchcraft and occult culture with an independent retail shop carrying rare books, crystals, herbs, candles, jewelry, tarot decks, and museum merchandise.

Byler's West Dover starts as a grocery outlet and country market, then keeps going into bulk foods, deli and bakery counters, ice cream, a serious kitchen center, cookbooks, commercial cookware, home décor, bath goods, toys, collectibles and a full gift shop.

Curious Nature mixes the atmosphere of a small natural-history museum with the inventory of a plant shop, antique store, occult retailer, bookshop, jewelry counter, and taxidermy cabinet.

Da Yoopers Tourist Trap combines a legitimate U.P. souvenir and mineral business with a sprawling collection of deliberately ridiculous homemade machinery, sculpture, mining displays and roadside humor.

Dark Hearts Vintage & Oddities mixes alternative fashion with the inventory of a record shop, occult bookstore, antique store, toy collection, VHS archive, jewelry counter, and curiosity cabinet.

Davoll's keeps the historic general-store model alive by combining everyday groceries and gifts with a real independent bookstore, café/pub and community programming inside a business whose roots reach back to 1793.

DECOPOLIS’ 5717 E 11th Street flagship combines several stores that normally have nothing to do with one another inside an elaborate retro-and-fantasy environment.

Dick’s mixes the chaotic breadth of an old five-and-dime with candy, soda, books, toys, housewares, crafts and a private museum’s worth of collections displayed throughout the working store.

Duran Central Pharmacy is simultaneously a working neighborhood pharmacy, an unusually broad specialty shop and a serious New Mexican diner—a combination that makes an everyday errand feel like three unrelated businesses occupying one institution.

Dutchman's Store takes the old rural general-store idea to enormous scale, combining groceries and fresh food with clothing, books, toys, household supplies, butchering gear, canning equipment, sporting goods and café service.

Dysfunctional Grace blends a macabre Ybor retail shop with art, antiques, taxidermy, metaphysical equipment, specimens, workshops and the wider Tabernacle of Oddities community it organizes.