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Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

OddStopsUSA is a directory of unique and unusual stores across the United States—places where the shop itself is part of the experience. Explore oddity shops, historic general stores, roadside trading posts, sprawling surplus stores, museum shops, hobby destinations, and other hard-to-classify places across all 50 states. Some are weird, some are historic, some are wildly specific, and some combine categories in ways that make them hard to explain until you visit. Use the directory to search by state, place, store type, or product category, switch to the map, or browse state by state to find a stop worth adding to your next trip.

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AL
Huntsville, AL
Harrison Brothers Hardware
A preserved Huntsville hardware store that no longer really sells hardware, instead mixing local art, pottery, jewelry, toys, books, gourmet foods, housewares, and a history museum among century-old fixtures.
Harrison Brothers keeps its historic retail environment intact while operating as a shop for local and regional art, fine crafts, housewares, foods, books, toys, gifts, and other goods.
Art, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Art, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGrocery & pantry+4 more
HI
Hāna, HI
Hasegawa General Store
A fourth-generation Hāna general store where groceries, local produce, fishing rods, doorknobs, sunscreen, books, wine, shirts, postcards, wall art, coffee, souvenirs, and whatever else town needs still share the aisles.
Hasegawa General Store preserves the old catch-all meaning of 'general store,' serving Hāna with groceries and produce alongside apparel, fishing gear, books, household objects, wine, souvenirs and famously miscellaneous necessities.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHardware & toolsOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHardware & tools+6 more
TN
Nashville, TN
Hatch Show Print
A working Nashville letterpress shop founded in 1879 where current commercial poster production shares space with a gift store, public tours and scheduled hands-on printmaking programs.
Hatch Show Print is simultaneously a production letterpress shop, design archive, retail store and hands-on visitor experience.
Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsServices & repairsOther
Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
IA
High Amana, IA
High Amana General Store
An operating general store founded in 1857 where gifts, food, toys, books, housewares and handmade soaps are still sold among original wooden floors, glass display cases and a tin ceiling preserved from another era.
High Amana General Store is both a working shop and a preserved retail museum, selling modern merchandise inside an 1857 store whose historic interior has changed remarkably little.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
NE
Omaha, NE
Hollywood Candy
An Old Market candy store where house-made chocolate, fudge, retro and international sweets and more than 150 chilled sodas open into a diner, pinball arcade, theater and memorabilia-filled rooms.
Hollywood Candy combines an enormous candy and soda selection with a diner, arcade, theater and changing pop-culture displays in Omaha’s Old Market.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & media+3 more
CO
Denver, CO
HORRID
A Denver horror shop where bones, art, apparel, books, occult goods, bath products, candles, collectibles, and horror memorabilia share a property with a horror coffee shop, tattooing, movie nights, markets, burlesque, and an event space.
HORRID anchors Denver's House of Horrors, combining a death-positive horror boutique and artist platform with the neighboring Scr3am & Sugar coffee shop and Creepatorium event space for a retail compound that moves between shopping, tattoos, movies, markets, workshops, and live performance.
Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & media+4 more
HI
Honolulu, HI
Hound & Quail
A Honolulu curiosity cabinet where vintage furniture, taxidermy, old books, Hawaiiana, jewelry, ephemera, strange medical objects, global finds, and carefully chosen lifestyle goods occupy one tiny Chinatown shop.
Hound & Quail combines a vintage furniture shop, antique dealer, taxidermy cabinet and lifestyle boutique into a highly edited Honolulu collection of unusual objects gathered from Hawaiʻi and around the world.
Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaHome goods & furniture+2 more
PA
Elizabethtown, PA
House of Oddities & Curious Goods
A free oddities museum, outsider-art gallery, music collection, and ghastly gift shop occupying the same small-town storefront.
House of Oddities combines sideshow-style exhibits, outsider art, cryptid and true-crime material, strange recordings, curiosities, and an unusual gift shop.
Art, crafts & handmadeBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Art, crafts & handmadeBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
AZ
Joseph City, AZ
Jack Rabbit Trading Post
A 1949 Route 66 trading post where road-trip souvenirs, clothing, candy, salsa, games, signs, seasonings, novelties, and a giant rideable jackrabbit sit beneath the famous 'HERE IT IS' identity.
Jack Rabbit Trading Post turns a small Route 66 retail stop into one of Arizona's classic roadside experiences, mixing food, apparel, novelties, books, games, signs, collectibles, and decades of rabbit branding around an enormous photo-op jackrabbit.
Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+3 more
NJ
Red Bank, NJ
Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash
A real Red Bank comic shop where new issues, back issues and collectibles share the shelves with Kevin Smith and View Askew merchandise, movie props, memorabilia and the museum-like remnants of a film universe that grew out of New Jersey.
Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash works simultaneously as a serious comic store and a living View Askew archive filled with merchandise and film memorabilia.
Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+2 more
CO
Manitou Springs, CO
Land of Ozz
A Manitou Springs shop where vinyl records, books, posters, vintage rock clothing, goth fashion, custom jewelry, games, and adult memorabilia share one Ruxton Avenue storefront.
Land of Ozz combines the inventory of a record store, bookstore, vintage rock boutique, goth clothing shop, jewelry counter, game store, and memorabilia dealer in one small Manitou Springs stop.
Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintage+4 more
MN
Kellogg, MN
LARK Toys
A Kellogg toy store where handmade wooden toys are built on-site beside a bookstore, Curiosity Shoppe and antique-toy displays — then the building opens into a hand-carved carousel, café and sweets, miniature llamas and seasonal 18-hole mini-golf.
LARK Toys combines serious specialty retail and on-site toy making with books, gifts, food, an antique toy collection, living animals, a hand-carved carousel and seasonal mini-golf.
Food & drinkBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+3 more

What Makes an OddStop?

An OddStop is more than a store with an unusual product. It is a place where the retail experience, history, setting, collection, or mix of uses makes the stop memorable. That can mean an old general store still serving its community, an oddities shop filled with curiosities, a hobby destination built around racing, or a market, museum, roadside attraction, or workshop that also happens to be a place to shop. OddStopsUSA focuses on places worth understanding as destinations, not just businesses in a category.

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