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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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Matching stores Aladdin General Store selected. 01 Aladdin, WY Aladdin General Store Aladdin feels less like a recreated historic attraction than a 19th-century mercantile that simply kept adapting to modern travelers. ★ 02 Amargosa Valley, NV Area 51 Alien Center Area 51 Alien Center turns a functioning highway service stop into a full extraterrestrial retail environment without losing the practical fuel, food and traveler services underneath it. ★ 03 Queenstown, MD Bennett Point General Store An Eastern Shore general store where visitors can fuel up, order deli food, shop for beer, wine, and liquor, and arrange landscaping services. ★ 04 Rowlesburg, WV Cool Springs Park 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. ★ 05 Williamsburg, MO Crane’s Country Store 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. ★ 06 West, TX Czech Stop Czech Stop combines an active Czech-Texan bakery and deli with a highway convenience store and Shell station at Exit 353 in West. ★ 07 Learned, MS H.D. Gibbes & Sons H.D. Gibbes & Sons remains a family-run country store while also serving lunch and steak dinners in an intentionally informal historic setting. ★ 08 Walcott, IA Iowa 80 Truckstop 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. ★ 09 Haugan, MT Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar & Gift Shop 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. ★ 10 Avenue, MD Murphy’s Town & Country Market A long-running Southern Maryland country market combining homestyle deli food and stuffed ham with groceries, fuel, propane, spirits, live bait, and tackle. ★ 11 Arcadia, OK Pops Pops turns an everyday fuel stop into a specialty soda store, full restaurant and oversized Route 66 roadside landmark. ★ 12 Saxapahaw, NC Saxapahaw General Store Saxapahaw General Store combines fuel and everyday provisions with local groceries, meat, beer, wine and a full restaurant whose kitchen keeps its own meal periods. ★ 13 Slanesville, WV Slanesville General Store Slanesville General Store may be the purest 'what kind of store is this?' entry in West Virginia, functioning at once as a retailer, restaurant, farm-supply house and small-town service center. ★ 14 Hamer, SC South of the Border South of the Border is a single destination-scale roadside complex combining souvenir retail and traveler services with monumental architecture and a separately ticketed reptile attraction. ★ 15 St. Regis, MT St. Regis Travel Center St. Regis Travel Center takes the interstate gas-stop formula and layers on enough retail, food and live-animal spectacle to function as a roadside destination. ★ Browse Unique and Unusual Stores by State What Makes an OddStop? 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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