Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Stargazer Inn & Bristlecone General Store bundles grocery, outfitter, bookstore, information hub and roadside lodging into one remote Great Basin property.

Tamarack functions less like a normal craft shop than a statewide artisan department store crossed with a gallery, restaurant, studio complex and performance venue.

The Little Traveler turns a historic Geneva residence into a 36-room retail maze of fashion, food, toys, home goods, gifts, fair-trade merchandise and dining.

The Mildred Store keeps a rural grocery alive by turning the same century-old building into a deli, meat market, community gathering place and genuine live-music dance hall.

The Old Country Store & Museum is an active shop whose deliberately old-fashioned checkout, merchandise and upstairs history collection blur the line between store and museum.

The Old Mill General Store joins substantial pantry-and-gift retail directly to a working nineteenth-century gristmill.

The Shops at Emerson combine a broad cluster of specialty departments with a separate admission-based kaleidoscope show housed in a towering former silo.

The Simmons-Wright Company is a working country store and café whose 1884 building, tall shelves and layered inventory make the store itself the attraction.

Tillamook Creamery turns an active dairy-production facility into a large-scale retail, dining and factory-viewing destination.

TMK combines dairy farming, farmstead cheesemaking, direct product sales and a distillery that converts a cheesemaking byproduct into spirits.

Union Star's Fremont store sells its cheese at the working factory and runs free scheduled morning tours on four days of the week.

Uranus Fudge Factory & General Store turns a Richmond fudge-and-gift shop into a giant roadside entertainment stop filled with candy, novelty merchandise, dinosaurs, a hanging airplane, a Vortex Tunnel and other intentionally ridiculous attractions.