Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Golden Curiosity Shop mixes the shelves of a natural-history dealer, mineral shop, science store, bookshop, and curiosity cabinet with interactive demonstrations and museum-scale displays inside its new downtown Golden location.

The Great American Dollhouse Museum pairs more than 200 miniature buildings and room boxes with a fully stocked lobby shop for dollhouse furniture, structures, components, décor and artisan miniatures.

H.J. Smith's Son combines an operating hardware and general store with a densely packed family museum that includes a cypress dugout, old tools, a cast-iron casket and other artifacts.

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.

Halloween Town operates a large year-round Halloween shop and a separate costume storefront on the same Burbank block, turning permanent spooky retail into a two-stop neighborhood experience.

Harrison Brothers keeps its historic retail environment intact while operating as a shop for local and regional art, fine crafts, housewares, foods, books, toys, gifts, and other goods.

Country Village connects Harry & David’s largest retail showroom directly to a behind-the-scenes tour of the Medford production system that makes and packs many of the foods sold through the brand.

Hasegawa General Store preserves the old catch-all meaning of 'general store,' serving Hāna with groceries and produce alongside apparel, fishing gear, books, household objects, wine, souvenirs and famously miscellaneous necessities.

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.

Historic Greef General Store layers an antique-and-craft shop, artifact displays and a working fudge business into a restored 1840s storefront beside the Des Moines River.

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.

Horrocks Farm Market turns grocery shopping into a collision of produce market, specialty grocer, greenhouse, nursery, florist, prepared-food hall and social venue, complete with an operating tavern and beer garden.