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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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  • Aerial view of Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks and its Sugar Shack in Montpelier
    VT

    Montpelier, VT

    Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks

    A Montpelier maple farm where a country store and year-round maple creemees share the property with a seasonal sugarhouse, sugaring-film theater, maple trail, farm animals and folk-art displays.

    Morse Farm combines maple and Vermont retail with year-round creemees, a seasonal working sugarhouse, sugaring exhibits, a maple trail and farm grounds.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryFarm & gardenGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryFarm & garden+2 more
  • Mrs. Cavanaugh’s Chocolate Factory entrance at the North Salt Lake headquarters
    UT

    North Salt Lake, UT

    Mrs. Cavanaugh’s Chocolate Factory & Store

    Mrs. Cavanaugh’s North Salt Lake headquarters combines chocolate and ice-cream retail with a 30,000-square-foot working candy factory and appointment-only tours through the family business’s production story.

    Mrs. Cavanaugh’s headquarters joins a chocolate-and-ice-cream store to an active candy factory offering scheduled, appointment-only tours.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Murphy’s Town & Country Market sign in Avenue, Maryland
    MD

    Avenue, MD

    Murphy’s Town & Country Market

    Stuffed ham, spirits, propane, and live bait.

    A long-running Southern Maryland country market combining homestyle deli food and stuffed ham with groceries, fuel, propane, spirits, live bait, and tackle.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryFuel & convenienceOutdoor, hunting & fishingGifts, novelty & souvenirs
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryFuel & convenience+2 more
  • Visitors move between the National Mustard Museum exhibits and the upstairs mustard shop in Middleton
    WI

    Middleton, WI

    National Mustard Museum

    A free condiment museum downstairs from a serious mustard gift shop and tasting bar, with thousands of display jars and more than a hundred current samples in one downtown Middleton stop.

    The National Mustard Museum combines a free collection of more than 6,000 mustards with a separate retail company operating the gift shop and free tasting bar upstairs.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Nervous Nellie's shop on Deer Isle beside one of Peter Beerits' large handmade sculptures
    ME

    Deer Isle, ME

    Nervous Nellie's Jams & Jellies

    A Deer Isle jam kitchen and Maine-made gift shop surrounded by several acres of handmade sculpture environments, where preserves lead outside to a Western town, saloon, jail, juke joint, castle, wizard's tower and other pieces of Peter Beerits' ever-growing Nellieville.

    Nervous Nellie's makes jams and chutneys by hand and sells them alongside Maine-made crafts and gifts, while the woods and meadow outside have evolved into an entire handmade village of sculptures, buildings and invented places.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+4 more
  • Old Riverton Store exterior on Route 66 with its market signs, neon trim and flower beds
    KS

    Riverton, KS

    Old Riverton Store

    A 1925 Kansas grocery that survived long enough to become a Route 66 landmark, still making deli sandwiches and selling everyday staples while its former living room fills with road-trip books, gifts, souvenirs and nearly a century of roadside history.

    Old Riverton Store remains a functioning grocery and deli inside its 1925 Route 66 building, mixing sandwiches and everyday necessities with souvenirs, local goods and a remarkably intact roadside-store experience.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsAutomotive & mechanicalOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & media+4 more
  • Exterior of Old Wethersfield Country Store at 221 Main Street in Wethersfield
    CT

    Wethersfield, CT

    Old Wethersfield Country Store

    An Old Wethersfield general store where penny candy, local soda, coffee and tea, spices, kitchen goods, décor, candles, soaps, cocktail mixers, books, puzzles, games, and vintage toys all still share the shelves.

    Old Wethersfield Country Store takes the classic neighborhood general-store idea seriously, mixing sweets and local foods with kitchen supplies, home goods, self-care products, books, games, toys, drinks, and work from local makers.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureHealth & personal careBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • Owl Drug Store staff in front of the historic-style prescription counter in Coleman
    TX

    Coleman, TX

    Owl Drug Store

    A downtown Coleman pharmacy where prescription services and a home-and-gift boutique share the room with a working old-fashioned fountain and grill serving breakfast, burgers, coffee, Blue Bell ice cream and phosphates.

    Owl Drug Store combines a current independent pharmacy, gift boutique and century-old soda-fountain tradition under one downtown Coleman roof.

    Food & drinkHealth & personal careServices & repairsHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkHealth & personal careServices & repairs+3 more
  • Indoor swinging bridge above the restaurant area inside Paint Bank General Store
    VA

    Paint Bank, VA

    Paint Bank General Store

    A mountain general store where groceries, gifts, fishing supplies and locally raised buffalo meat share the building with a year-round Christmas shop, wildlife displays, a restaurant and an indoor swinging bridge.

    Paint Bank General Store layers practical country retail with a Christmas shop, wildlife displays, the Swinging Bridge restaurant and a real walkable bridge indoors.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishingHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishing+3 more
  • Perry's Nut House interior with the stuffed gorilla displayed among the current fudge, candy and gift retail
    ME

    Belfast, ME

    Perry's Nut House

    A Belfast Route 1 institution selling homemade fudge, nuts, candy, ice cream, Maine gifts and toys beneath a roadside menagerie that currently includes a stuffed gorilla, alligator and python hides, trick mirrors, murals and a curiosity the store calls its mummified body.

    Perry's Nut House keeps the old American roadside-attraction formula alive by combining a working candy, fudge, nut and gift business with a restored assortment of strange displays and visual gags.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+3 more
  • Pink Elephant Antique Mall property in Livingston with the cone-shaped diner, giant figures and former school building
    IL

    Livingston, IL

    Pink Elephant Antique Mall

    A 30,000-square-foot antique mall inside a 1929 high school, surrounded by giant fiberglass roadside creatures and joined by a fudge-and-candy shop plus a working diner inside an enormous ice-cream cone.

    Pink Elephant Antique Mall turns a Route 66 antiques stop into a full roadside compound of giant fiberglass figures, dozens of dealers, homemade fudge and candy, an ice-cream-cone diner and increasingly strange seasonal events.

    Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureFood & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureFood & drink+3 more
  • Pops glass-walled soda store and fuel pumps beneath its white Route 66 canopy in Arcadia
    OK

    Arcadia, OK

    Pops

    A Route 66 gas station where a wall of more than 700 soda flavors wraps around a modern diner, while a 66-foot illuminated soda bottle towers over the pumps outside.

    Pops turns an everyday fuel stop into a specialty soda store, full restaurant and oversized Route 66 roadside landmark.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsFuel & convenienceOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+2 more

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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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