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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 Afterlife Oddities & Tattoos selected. 01 Columbus, OH Afterlife Oddities & Tattoos Afterlife combines taxidermy, wet specimens, antique literature, anatomical curiosities, unusual collectibles, and a private appointment-based tattoo studio. ★ 02 Howard, KS Batson's Drug Store and Family Market 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. ★ 03 Corinth, MS Borroum’s Drug Store & Soda Fountain Borroum’s combines an operating pharmacy and old-fashioned soda fountain with a historic interior filled with regional artifacts and memorabilia. ★ 04 Dover, DE Byler's Store — West Dover 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. ★ 05 Louisville, KY Caufield's Novelty 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. ★ 06 Nacogdoches, TX Chulita Hill Farm and Creamery 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. ★ 07 Phoenix, AZ Curious Nature 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. ★ 08 Stanley, ND Dakota Drug of Stanley Dakota Drug of Stanley combines a community pharmacy, broad gift-and-toy shop and working vintage soda fountain under one roof. ★ 09 Albuquerque, NM Duran Central Pharmacy 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. ★ 10 Cantril, IA Dutchman's Store 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. ★ 11 Eureka Springs, AR East By West 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. ★ 12 Fort Wayne, IN Fae's Cabinet 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. ★ 13 Hyattsville, MD Franklins 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. ★ 14 Summerville, SC Guerin’s Pharmacy Guerin’s combines a working independent pharmacy, sundries and local gifts with a preserved soda fountain that still serves classic counter treats. ★ 15 New York, NY Halloween Adventure / New York Costumes 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. ★ 16 High Amana, IA High Amana General Store 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. ★ 17 Denver, CO HORRID 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. ★ 18 Clinton, TN Hoskins Drug Store & Soda Fountain Hoskins combines an operating pharmacy and medical-supply business with a remarkably intact small-town soda fountain and grill. ★ 19 Eatonville, WA Left Foot Farm 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. ★ 20 Placerville, CA Loved To Death 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. ★ 21 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. ★ 22 New Orleans, LA Mardi Gras Zone Supermarket 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. ★ 23 Los Angeles, CA Memento Mori Los Angeles 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. ★ 24 Kissimmee, FL Mortem Manor + Post Mortem Horror Bootique Mortem Manor and Post Mortem Horror Bootique combine a permanent walk-through haunt with substantial horror retail inside Kissimmee’s Old Town entertainment district. ★ 25 Tucson, AZ Mourning Star Curio Shoppe Mourning Star fills a suite inside Tucson's historic Brings property with oddities, handmade art, preserved specimens, jewelry, candles, small curiosities, and work from a rotating community of local artists. ★ 26 Wethersfield, CT Old Wethersfield Country Store Old Wethersfield Country Store takes the classic neighborhood general-store idea seriously, mixing sweets and local foods with kitchen supplies, home goods, self-care products, books, games, toys, drinks, and work from local makers. ★ 27 Coleman, TX Owl Drug Store Owl Drug Store combines a current independent pharmacy, gift boutique and century-old soda-fountain tradition under one downtown Coleman roof. ★ 28 Missoula, MT Rockin' Rudy's Rockin' Rudy's behaves less like a record shop with gifts than an alternative department store whose departments seem to have been selected by curiosity rather than conventional retail logic. ★ 29 Fenwick Island, DE Seaside Country Store Seaside Country Store behaves like six shops under one roof, moving from a homemade-food room and candy counter into bath goods, gifts, fashion, nautical collectibles, home décor, sports memorabilia, and permanent Christmas and seasonal departments. ★ 30 Idaho Falls, ID Shaddow Domain Shaddow Domain grew from a tiny goth shop into an Idaho Falls collision of metaphysical supplies, preserved specimens, books, art, apparel, games, household goods, oddities and its own small museum. ★ 31 New Orleans, LA She Comes in Peace She Comes in Peace combines a fantasy and science-fiction costume shop with a creative-color hair salon, handmade statement pieces and a highly theatrical interior. ★ 32 Los Angeles, CA Soap Plant / WACKO Soap Plant / WACKO grew from a 1971 family soap-and-craft shop into a sprawling pop-culture emporium and gallery complex, mixing handmade bath products with toys, books, jewelry, housewares, collectibles, strange gifts, and La Luz de Jesus Gallery. ★ 33 Atlanta, GA The Junkman's Daughter The Junkman's Daughter turns a Little Five Points storefront into a sprawling alternative-retail mix of fashion, footwear, accessories, pop-culture merchandise, divination goods, books, toys, décor, candles and strange gifts. ★ 34 Geneva, IL The Little Traveler 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. ★ 35 Mount Tremper, NY The Shops at Emerson The Shops at Emerson combine a broad cluster of specialty departments with a separate admission-based kaleidoscope show housed in a towering former silo. ★ 36 Kāneʻohe, HI Waiāhole Poi Factory Country Store Waiāhole Poi Factory Country Store adds a local-artisan marketplace to one of Oʻahu's most historic food destinations, filling the old Waiāhole Valley property with apparel, beauty goods, home pieces, quilts, art, ceramics, stationery, snacks and locally made gifts. ★ 37 Wall, SD Wall Drug Store Wall Drug is less a drugstore than an entire retail ecosystem that somehow still contains the operating pharmacy at its core. ★ 38 Birmingham, AL Wantfull Things Tattoos & Cultural Artifacts Run by local artists and tattoo artists, Wantfull Things combines tattooing with thrift, vintage goods, oddities, punk and ska culture, original artwork, small collectibles, and deliberately strange objects. ★ 39 Centerville, IN Warm Glow Candle Outlet Warm Glow Candle Outlet turns a candle-company store into a full I-70 shopping destination, combining fragrances with home décor, gourmet food, clothing, bath products, Indiana wine and beer, gifts and one enormous candle outside. ★ 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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