Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Very Rich Dead People's Things For Sale turns an enormous Maui estate warehouse into part antique shop, part furniture store, part gallery and part roadside museum, filling it with art, jewelry, records, rugs, crystals, statues, furniture, Hawaiiana and genuinely baffling one-off objects.

Vision Comics & Oddities starts as an old-school comics and collectible shop and then wanders into taxidermy, specimens in jars, horror props, local art, dolls, masks, monsters, and bizarre oversized displays.

Von's Shops turns a long-running campus-area bookstore into a maze of records, rocks, beads, jewelry, fashion, comics, cards and novelty merchandise that keeps changing retail categories as you move through it.

Waiāhole Poi Factory Country Store adds a local-artisan marketplace to one of Oʻahu's most historic food destinations, filling the old Waiāhole Valley property with apparel, beauty goods, home pieces, quilts, art, ceramics, stationery, snacks and locally made gifts.

Wall Drug is less a drugstore than an entire retail ecosystem that somehow still contains the operating pharmacy at its core.

Run by local artists and tattoo artists, Wantfull Things combines tattooing with thrift, vintage goods, oddities, punk and ska culture, original artwork, small collectibles, and deliberately strange objects.

War Eagle Mill combines a functioning water-powered gristmill with a general store, regional-food market, gift shop, café, and living-history-style visitor experience beside War Eagle Creek.

Warm Glow Candle Outlet turns a candle-company store into a full I-70 shopping destination, combining fragrances with home décor, gourmet food, clothing, bath products, Indiana wine and beer, gifts and one enormous candle outside.

Washington Street Books combines books, comics, music, collectibles, toys, crystals, fossils, jewelry, militaria, and original movie costumes displayed throughout the store.

Wild Rumpus is a serious independent bookstore built around the idea that a bookshop can also feel like a living storybook habitat.

Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities mixes natural history, medicine, death, science, antiques, toys, books and art inside a Foster Avenue shop built around objects that normal stores have no category for.

World's Wonder View Tower reopened in 2026 as a restored roadside attraction combining a historic tower climb, museum interpretation, immersive art, surviving pieces of its famously eccentric past, and a gift shop built around Colorado makers and retro roadside culture.