Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Memento Mori Los Angeles combines macabre natural-history material with the inventory of a bookshop, jewelry boutique, home store, coffee-and-tea shelf, art gallery, apparel shop, divination counter, and classroom.

Minnesota's Largest Candy Store stretches the candy-shop idea into a seasonal roadside emporium of soda, baked goods, local pantry food, puzzles and elaborate pop-culture spectacle.

Mississippi Petrified Forest combines a destination gift shop and hands-on gem mining with a museum, nature trail and campground at a protected petrified-wood site.

Missouri Star is less a single quilt shop than a company-operated downtown shopping district built around distinct subdivisions of quilting and sewing.

Mister Ed’s combines homemade fudge, chocolates, candy, roasted peanuts, nut butter, elephant merchandise, an enormous elephant collection, gardens, and a teapot museum.

Moon Marble Company grew from a need for better toy marbles into a Bonner Springs destination combining machine-made and handmade marbles, traditional toys, games, gifts and live glassworking demonstrations.

Moon’s Rare Books is an active buying-and-selling bookshop whose first editions and antique texts share display space with manuscripts, artifacts, art and film props.

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

Mortem Manor and Post Mortem Horror Bootique combine a permanent walk-through haunt with substantial horror retail inside Kissimmee’s Old Town entertainment district.

Mountain Meadow Wool Mill lets shoppers follow Wyoming wool from raw fiber to finished yarn and apparel without leaving the production building.

Mourning Star fills a suite inside Tucson's historic Brings property with oddities, handmade art, preserved specimens, jewelry, candles, small curiosities, and work from a rotating community of local artists.

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