Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Country Mercantile turns a specialty grocery into a much stranger retail complex by combining visible candy production, prepared food, gifts, ice cream and seasonal farm attractions.

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.

Curioporium mixes an oddities and antique shop with immersive haunted environments, witchy merchandise, unusual art, paranormal experiences, hands-on specimen projects, and rotating events inside Southington's Factory Square.

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.

CVRATED by Ryan Matthew Cohn turns a former industrial space into part antique showroom, part gallery, and part cabinet of curiosities, filling it with anatomical material, taxidermy, historic objects, art, extraordinary furniture, and rare finds sourced from around the world.

Dahl’s turns an active custom-art business into a roadside sculpture gallery where the making process and gigantic finished pieces become part of the shopping experience.

Danforth’s Middlebury flagship combines pewter gifts, jewelry and home goods with window views into the company’s working workshop.

Davoll's keeps the historic general-store model alive by combining everyday groceries and gifts with a real independent bookstore, café/pub and community programming inside a business whose roots reach back to 1793.

DECOPOLIS’ 5717 E 11th Street flagship combines several stores that normally have nothing to do with one another inside an elaborate retro-and-fantasy environment.

Deja Vu Furniture & More mixes serious furniture and design inventory with enormous, bizarre and nearly unclassifiable objects collected over decades.

Dick’s mixes the chaotic breadth of an old five-and-dime with candy, soda, books, toys, housewares, crafts and a private museum’s worth of collections displayed throughout the working store.

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.