Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

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.

Historic Greef General Store layers an antique-and-craft shop, artifact displays and a working fudge business into a restored 1840s storefront beside the Des Moines River.

Hollywood Candy combines an enormous candy and soda selection with a diner, arcade, theater and changing pop-culture displays in Omaha’s Old Market.

Horrocks Farm Market turns grocery shopping into a collision of produce market, specialty grocer, greenhouse, nursery, florist, prepared-food hall and social venue, complete with an operating tavern and beer garden.

Hoskins combines an operating pharmacy and medical-supply business with a remarkably intact small-town soda fountain and grill.

Hussey's turns the old one-stop rural mercantile idea up to an almost implausible scale, combining everyday groceries and hardware with sporting goods, clothing, farm supplies, furnishings and a serious bridal department.

Iowa 80 Truckstop turns a highway fuel stop into an enormous retail, dining, service and entertainment complex where travelers can shop, eat, watch a movie, visit a museum, see a dentist, wash a dog and outfit an entire semi without leaving the property.

J.Q. Dickinson reconnects retail to one of West Virginia's oldest industries by pairing a modern salt shop with active production and hands-on interpretation.

Kenyon's pairs direct sales of its stone-ground meals and mixes with a working historic grist mill and scheduled weekend tours.

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.

Lehman’s combines non-electric tools, wood and heating equipment, kitchen goods, homesteading supplies, emergency products, toys, books, food, demonstrations, and historical displays.

Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar turned a 1952 bar-top gimmick into an entire Montana travel complex where the growing coin collection is surrounded by retail, food, fuel and lodging.