Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

A Darkness Lovely combines gothic gifts and curiosities with books, divination, art and jewelry, then adds The Stitching Hour fiber-arts shop inside the same Main Street storefront and serves as the retail base for Haunted Galena tours.

Abernathy's blends serious vintage and alternative fashion with handmade art, jewelry, antiques, oddities and macabre merchandise in a downtown Davenport store that treats 'weird' as one of its core departments.

Alexander's Store takes the old general-store idea to warehouse scale, combining fashion, footwear, furniture, outdoor and sporting goods, jewelry, local handmade work, food and collectibles inside a family-owned Blairsville institution.

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.

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.

Art of Play at 69 Atlantic combines a design-minded game and curiosity store with an intimate concealed theater whose scheduled shows remain separate from ordinary shopping.

Barberville Yard Art Emporium turns outdoor décor shopping into a roadside attraction, spreading giant animals, metal sculptures, fountains, pottery, furniture, mailboxes and handmade art across three acres.

Bass Pro Shops’ original flagship operates simultaneously as a massive outdoor retailer, wildlife environment, boat-and-vehicle showroom, restaurant and museum complex.

Berdoll combines pecan processing, candy and pie production, broad Texas gift retail, a giant squirrel landmark and an around-the-clock pie machine.

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.

Blenko connects a serious handmade-glass retail operation directly to the active production floor, with both free observation and more involved scheduled factory experiences.

Bowne & Co., Stationers is a museum-operated retail shop and working letterpress destination where visitors can buy paper goods while seeing printing history practiced next door.