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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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  • Franklins storefront
    MD

    Hyattsville, MD

    Franklins

    A brewery, restaurant, toy store, general store, and ice cream shop under one historic roof.

    A Hyattsville institution where visitors can eat, drink house-brewed beer, browse toys and gifts, shop hot sauce and kitchen gadgets, and get ice cream in the same historic building.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal care
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryToys, games & hobbies+2 more
  • Signed Guerin’s Pharmacy storefront at 140 S Main Street in Summerville
    SC

    Summerville, SC

    Guerin’s Pharmacy

    A Summerville pharmacy operating since 1871 where prescriptions, health goods and local souvenirs share a historic Main Street room with a working 1920s soda fountain serving ice cream, shakes, floats and hot dogs.

    Guerin’s combines a working independent pharmacy, sundries and local gifts with a preserved soda fountain that still serves classic counter treats.

    Food & drinkHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirsServices & repairsOther
    Food & drinkHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirs+2 more
  • Halloween Adventure interior with a skull chandelier above packed costume, mask, prop, and apparel displays
    NY

    New York, NY

    Halloween Adventure / New York Costumes

    A year-round East Village costume superstore, established in the mid-1980s, where two levels of masks, wigs, makeup, props, animatronics, apparel, theatrical supplies, and skull chandeliers fill a sprawling permanent shop.

    Halloween Adventure, also branded New York Costumes, is a sprawling year-round Halloween and theatrical retail environment with deep costume stock, horror décor, professional makeup, props, accessories, and changing themed events.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbies+4 more
  • Exterior of the sandstone High Amana General Store with its 1857 sign above the entrance
    IA

    High Amana, IA

    High Amana General Store

    An operating general store founded in 1857 where gifts, food, toys, books, housewares and handmade soaps are still sold among original wooden floors, glass display cases and a tin ceiling preserved from another era.

    High Amana General Store is both a working shop and a preserved retail museum, selling modern merchandise inside an 1857 store whose historic interior has changed remarkably little.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • Wide interior of HORRID with horror-character displays, art, dolls, and merchandise
    CO

    Denver, CO

    HORRID

    A Denver horror shop where bones, art, apparel, books, occult goods, bath products, candles, collectibles, and horror memorabilia share a property with a horror coffee shop, tattooing, movie nights, markets, burlesque, and an event space.

    HORRID anchors Denver's House of Horrors, combining a death-positive horror boutique and artist platform with the neighboring Scr3am & Sugar coffee shop and Creepatorium event space for a retail compound that moves between shopping, tattoos, movies, markets, workshops, and live performance.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & media+4 more
  • Current Hoskins Drug Store storefront in Clinton with its restaurant sign and historic drug-store lettering
    TN

    Clinton, TN

    Hoskins Drug Store & Soda Fountain

    A family-run Clinton pharmacy where prescriptions, medical supplies and gifts share a 1947 Main Street building with a working breakfast-and-lunch grill and authentic soda fountain.

    Hoskins combines an operating pharmacy and medical-supply business with a remarkably intact small-town soda fountain and grill.

    Food & drinkHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Left Foot Farm sign at the Eatonville goat dairy property
    WA

    Eatonville, WA

    Left Foot Farm

    An Eatonville goat dairy where the Farm Store sells milk, eggs and goat-milk goods while visitors can freely walk the pastures, see the herd and view the milking operation before choosing deeper scheduled farm experiences.

    Left Foot Farm directly connects retail to the working goat dairy behind it, with free casual farm access plus scheduled tours, classes and farm stays for visitors who want more.

    Grocery & pantryFarm & gardenHealth & personal carePets & animalsGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Grocery & pantryFarm & gardenHealth & personal care+3 more
  • Loved To Death on Main window display at the current Placerville storefront
    CA

    Placerville, CA

    Loved To Death

    A Placerville oddities shop where antique taxidermy, medical curiosities, Victorian objects, crystals, jewelry, art, books, soaps, home décor, and natural-history specimens share a darkly elegant Main Street storefront.

    Loved To Death brings its long-running oddities identity to Placerville with a curated mix of natural history, antiques, Victorian material, unusual art, handmade jewelry, books, crystals, home décor, and macabre collectibles.

    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeBooks, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeBooks, records & media+4 more
  • Oversized animal sculptures and metal oddities spread across the original M Schettl Sales grounds in Oshkosh
    WI

    Oshkosh, WI

    M Schettl Sales — Original Oshkosh

    A sprawling original Oshkosh hardware-and-home-improvement store whose practical inventory shares the property with giant statues, nostalgic props and a constantly changing outdoor oddity environment.

    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.

    Hardware & toolsFarm & gardenOutdoor, hunting & fishingHome goods & furnitureAutomotive & mechanicalHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Hardware & toolsFarm & gardenOutdoor, hunting & fishing+5 more
  • Illuminated Mardi Gras Zone Supermarket sign above the Royal Street entrance at night
    LA

    New Orleans, LA

    Mardi Gras Zone Supermarket

    A late-night Bywater supermarket where groceries and specialty foods meet an expansive year-round Mardi Gras department of costumes, masks, wigs, beads and party supplies.

    Mardi Gras Zone is both a working neighborhood supermarket and a year-round source for costumes, masks, wigs, beads, cosmetics, decorations and New Orleans gifts.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+3 more
  • Wide interior of Memento Mori Los Angeles with skulls, taxidermy, framed specimens, and display cases
    CA

    Los Angeles, CA

    Memento Mori Los Angeles

    A Hollywood boutique where taxidermy, entomology, antique photographs, crystals, books, coffee and tea, kitchenware, jewelry, candles, original art, clothing, tarot goods, and dark décor live together.

    Memento Mori Los Angeles combines macabre natural-history material with the inventory of a bookshop, jewelry boutique, home store, coffee-and-tea shelf, art gallery, apparel shop, divination counter, and classroom.

    Books, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeFood & drinkApparel & footwearHealth & personal careGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmade+5 more
  • Weathered Victorian façade of Mortem Manor at Old Town in Kissimmee
    FL

    Kissimmee, FL

    Mortem Manor + Post Mortem Horror Bootique

    A year-round Old Town destination where a two-story haunted manor opens beside a dedicated horror boutique selling masks, props, apparel, effects supplies, collectibles, and licensed monster merchandise.

    Mortem Manor and Post Mortem Horror Bootique combine a permanent walk-through haunt with substantial horror retail inside Kissimmee’s Old Town entertainment district.

    Apparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Apparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmade+3 more

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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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