Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Scavenged Goods turns one professional picker's finds into a store that jumps between punk vintage, records, dead media, comics, toys, antiques, taxidermy, jewelry, posters, and whatever strange object emerged from the latest storage unit.

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.

Seattle Glassblowing Studio joins a serious art-glass store directly to an operating hot shop, making manufacturing and retail part of the same public room.

Second Chance combines architectural salvage, reusable building materials, furniture, appliances, lighting, home décor, and oversized reclaimed objects in one nonprofit retail warehouse.

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.

Shell World takes the classic Florida shell shop to destination scale, filling a huge Overseas Highway store with shells and shell goods alongside clothing, jewelry, books, art materials, home décor and decades of Keys memorabilia.

Sideshow Gallery combines a working art gallery with oddities, natural specimens, antiques, occult and ritual goods, jewelry, clothing and a steady calendar of workshops and strange markets.

Simon Pearce’s Quechee mill combines handmade glass and pottery retail with a working glassblowing studio, riverside restaurant and turbine-powered historic setting.

Slanesville General Store may be the purest 'what kind of store is this?' entry in West Virginia, functioning at once as a retailer, restaurant, farm-supply house and small-town service center.

Smith & Edwards combines destination-scale general-store retail with decades of military-surplus history and a sprawling outdoor surplus yard at its original northern Utah property.

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.

St. Regis Travel Center takes the interstate gas-stop formula and layers on enough retail, food and live-animal spectacle to function as a roadside destination.