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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 West Chicago, IL American Science & Surplus American Science & Surplus turns closeouts, overruns, scientific equipment and miscellaneous industrial leftovers into an employee-owned store where useful tools, educational gear, toys and inexplicable components occupy the same aisles. ★ 03 Angoon, AK Angoon Trading Co. Angoon Trading Co. serves the Admiralty Island community as far more than a grocery store, combining everyday food with hardware, building supplies, clothing, gifts, freight logistics, and coffee in one independent shop. ★ 04 St. Paul, MN Ax-Man Surplus — St. Paul Ax-Man Surplus has spent decades turning unwanted industrial and scientific inventory into a retail treasure hunt for artists, engineers, teachers, makers and anyone drawn to inexplicable components. ★ 05 Ellsworth, ME Big Chicken Barn Books & Antiques Big Chicken Barn turns a relic of Maine's poultry era into a two-story collecting universe: antiques and household objects below, mountains of books, magazines, newspapers and paper ephemera above. ★ 06 Pilesgrove, NJ Cowtown Farmers Market & Rodeo 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. ★ 07 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. ★ 08 Covington, LA H.J. Smith's Son General Store & Museum H.J. Smith's Son combines an operating hardware and general store with a densely packed family museum that includes a cypress dugout, old tools, a cast-iron casket and other artifacts. ★ 09 Hāna, HI Hasegawa General Store Hasegawa General Store preserves the old catch-all meaning of 'general store,' serving Hāna with groceries and produce alongside apparel, fishing gear, books, household objects, wine, souvenirs and famously miscellaneous necessities. ★ 10 Baltimore, MD Housewerks Salvage Housewerks sells architectural and industrial antiques, furniture, lighting, hardware, doors, windows, garden pieces, and decorative objects inside Baltimore’s historic Bayard Station. ★ 11 Windsor, ME Hussey's General Store Hussey's turns the old one-stop rural mercantile idea up to an almost implausible scale, combining everyday groceries and hardware with sporting goods, clothing, farm supplies, furnishings and a serious bridal department. ★ 12 Natchitoches, LA Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile Kaffie-Frederick combines practical hardware and housewares with classic toys and an upstairs gift shop inside a nineteenth-century Front Street store that still uses historic retail equipment. ★ 13 Kidron, OH Lehman’s Lehman’s combines non-electric tools, wood and heating equipment, kitchen goods, homesteading supplies, emergency products, toys, books, food, demonstrations, and historical displays. ★ 14 Liberty, ME Liberty Tool Company Liberty Tool Company begins as a serious secondhand tool dealer and gradually transforms, floor by floor, into an antique market, book-and-paper shop, vintage-clothing hunt and general repository of one-of-a-kind things. ★ 15 Oshkosh, WI M Schettl Sales — Original Oshkosh M Schettl's County Road S property mixes building supplies, hardware, trailers and household goods with oversized sculptures and a photo-worthy outdoor display landscape. ★ 16 Baltimore, MD Second Chance Second Chance combines architectural salvage, reusable building materials, furniture, appliances, lighting, home décor, and oversized reclaimed objects in one nonprofit retail warehouse. ★ 17 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. ★ 18 Ogden, UT Smith & Edwards — Farr West/Ogden Smith & Edwards combines destination-scale general-store retail with decades of military-surplus history and a sprawling outdoor surplus yard at its original northern Utah property. ★ 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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