Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Cold Hollow Cider Mill combines a Vermont market and bakery with a working cider press, self-guided mill visit, café, hard cider and production viewing.

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 Corner Variety bundles a small-town café and soda fountain together with gifts, cards, flowers, locally made goods, consignment merchandise and a grab bag of practical services that normal retailers stopped combining decades ago.

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.

Country Ovens sells dried Door County cherries and related foods beside the production floor, where visitors use a viewing window and video tour and can try free samples.

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.

Czech Stop combines an active Czech-Texan bakery and deli with a highway convenience store and Shell station at Exit 353 in West.

Dakota Drug of Stanley combines a community pharmacy, broad gift-and-toy shop and working vintage soda fountain under one roof.

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.