Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Abma's combines a serious working farm market and bakery with greenhouse retail and a ticketed year-round barnyard on a preserved family farm.

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

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.

An Eastern Shore general store where visitors can fuel up, order deli food, shop for beer, wine, and liquor, and arrange landscaping services.

Charleston Tea Garden connects tea retail and tasting directly to the fields, greenhouse and factory behind the product.

Chattooga Belle Farm connects a broad farm store to orchard production, U-pick fruit, an on-site fruit distillery and separately scheduled food service.

Chulita Hill links a working goat farm and creamery to direct retail for artisan cheese, goat-milk soap, pantry goods and other small-batch products.

Cool Springs Park is less a single store type than a surviving roadside ecosystem: general store, restaurant, gas stop, gift shop and sprawling open-air machinery park.

Country Mercantile turns a specialty grocery into a much stranger retail complex by combining visible candy production, prepared food, gifts, ice cream and seasonal farm attractions.

Cows & Co Creamery pairs farmstead dairy production with a daily self-serve Milkhouse and separately scheduled Creamery Café.

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.

Crane’s takes the old rural one-stop-shop idea literally, combining groceries and deli food with practical farm, hardware, clothing, footwear and outdoor departments.