Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Country Corner Variety bundles a small-town café and soda fountain together with gifts, cards, flowers, locally made goods, consignment merchandise and a grab bag of practical services that normal retailers stopped combining decades ago.

Country Mercantile turns a specialty grocery into a much stranger retail complex by combining visible candy production, prepared food, gifts, ice cream and seasonal farm attractions.

Country Ovens sells dried Door County cherries and related foods beside the production floor, where visitors use a viewing window and video tour and can try free samples.

Cows & Co Creamery pairs farmstead dairy production with a daily self-serve Milkhouse and separately scheduled Creamery Café.

Cowtown combines one of South Jersey's largest long-running vendor markets with a seasonal professional rodeo born from the same family-run commercial complex.

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.

Czech Stop combines an active Czech-Texan bakery and deli with a highway convenience store and Shell station at Exit 353 in West.

Davoll's keeps the historic general-store model alive by combining everyday groceries and gifts with a real independent bookstore, café/pub and community programming inside a business whose roots reach back to 1793.

Dick’s mixes the chaotic breadth of an old five-and-dime with candy, soda, books, toys, housewares, crafts and a private museum’s worth of collections displayed throughout the working store.

Duran Central Pharmacy is simultaneously a working neighborhood pharmacy, an unusually broad specialty shop and a serious New Mexican diner—a combination that makes an everyday errand feel like three unrelated businesses occupying one institution.

Dutchman's Store takes the old rural general-store idea to enormous scale, combining groceries and fresh food with clothing, books, toys, household supplies, butchering gear, canning equipment, sporting goods and café service.

Eagle's Store combines serious outdoor and western retail with a working historic soda fountain inside one of West Yellowstone's surviving early commercial landmarks.