Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Afterlife combines taxidermy, wet specimens, antique literature, anatomical curiosities, unusual collectibles, and a private appointment-based tattoo studio.

Batson's Drug Store and Family Market compresses a pharmacy, grocery, butcher counter, produce market, soda fountain, gift shop and floral department into one of rural Kansas's most useful — and hardest to classify — storefronts.

Borroum’s combines an operating pharmacy and old-fashioned soda fountain with a historic interior filled with regional artifacts and memorabilia.

Byler's West Dover starts as a grocery outlet and country market, then keeps going into bulk foods, deli and bakery counters, ice cream, a serious kitchen center, cookbooks, commercial cookware, home décor, bath goods, toys, collectibles and a full gift shop.

Caufield's combines a professional costume and theatrical-supply business with horror props, practical jokes, party goods, magic, seasonal spectacle and a giant vampire bat on its Main Street building.

Chulita Hill links a working goat farm and creamery to direct retail for artisan cheese, goat-milk soap, pantry goods and other small-batch products.

Curious Nature mixes the atmosphere of a small natural-history museum with the inventory of a plant shop, antique store, occult retailer, bookshop, jewelry counter, and taxidermy cabinet.

Dakota Drug of Stanley combines a community pharmacy, broad gift-and-toy shop and working vintage soda fountain under one roof.

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.

East By West mixes international gifts, clothing, souvenirs, jewelry, soaps, and assorted curiosities with one of Eureka Springs' strangest retail traditions: working rabbits that help customers at the checkout counter.

Fae's Cabinet turns a large rotating artist collective into a curiosity shop, mixing handmade work with natural specimens, taxidermy, plants, jewelry, body-care goods and stranger one-of-a-kind creations.