Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

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.

Eagle's Store combines serious outdoor and western retail with a working historic soda fountain inside one of West Yellowstone's surviving early commercial landmarks.

Edwards Mill combines specialty-food and craft retail with the machinery and student work that produce much of what visitors buy.

Ethel M turns chocolate retail into a factory-and-garden destination where visitors can watch confectionery production, shop the finished product and explore a major desert-plant collection.

Expedition: Bigfoot! combines a Sasquatch museum and research center with a reference library, theater, life-size exhibits and a Bigfoot gift shop near Blue Ridge and Cherry Log.

Fadden's combines an old-fashioned general store with the production machinery, museum and family maple operation behind its most famous merchandise.

Farm Life Creamery connects dairy farming, food manufacturing, direct retail and family agritourism at one rural South Dakota property.

Ferdinand's connects a real soda-fountain-style retail shop directly to Washington State University's working cheese and ice-cream production operation.

Floyd Country Store blends traditional general-store retail, a café and ice-cream counter with a year-round calendar of old-time, bluegrass and gospel music.

Fort Cody Trading Post turns a Nebraska souvenir stop into a full roadside attraction with museum rooms, outdoor displays and a miniature Wild West show.