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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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  • Wide interior of the Reading Jordan's Furniture Beantown area with the two-level ropes course, zip-line rails and oversized jellybean-themed sculptures
    MA

    Reading, MA

    Jordan's Furniture — Reading

    A full-scale Reading furniture store where sofas, mattresses and dining sets share the building with giant jellybeans, a two-level indoor ropes course and zip line, restaurants and an 80-by-60-foot IMAX theater seating roughly 500 moviegoers.

    Jordan's Furniture in Reading treats furniture shopping as only one part of the building, surrounding its working home-furnishings operation with a genuine ropes-and-zip-line attraction, giant jellybean sculptures, food stops and a commercial IMAX theater.

    Home goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Home goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Juicebox Hobbies radio-control racing destination in Whitley City, KY
    KY

    Whitley City, KY

    Juicebox Hobbies

    Juicebox Hobbies turns a hobby shop wrapped around a compact indoor RC circuit into a visitable hobby destination.

    Juicebox Hobbies combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Whitley City, KY.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Wide upstairs interior of Kaffie-Frederick with wood floors, gifts, housewares and colorful metal garden art
    LA

    Natchitoches, LA

    Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile

    A continuously operating Natchitoches mercantile founded in 1863, where hardware, cookware, classic toys and upstairs gifts share an 1890s building with working historic equipment.

    Kaffie-Frederick combines practical hardware and housewares with classic toys and an upstairs gift shop inside a nineteenth-century Front Street store that still uses historic retail equipment.

    Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Hardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbies+2 more
  • Red Kenyon's Grist Mill building in West Kingston with its stone-ground meal and flour sign
    RI

    West Kingston, RI

    Kenyon's Grist Mill

    A rural Rhode Island mill store where stone-ground cornmeal, flour and mixes are sold beside an 1886 grist mill that still works with original Westerly granite millstones on a milling site documented to 1696.

    Kenyon's pairs direct sales of its stone-ground meals and mixes with a working historic grist mill and scheduled weekend tours.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • King's Saddlery sign on the downtown Sheridan storefront
    WY

    Sheridan, WY

    King's Saddlery & Don King Western Museum

    A downtown Sheridan tack store where saddles, ropes and ranch gear lead visitors through the Rope Shop and into the King family's sprawling Western collection of historic saddles, coaches and cowboy artifacts.

    King's Saddlery remains a practical Western retail and craft business while also serving as the gateway to one of Sheridan's most unusual private cowboy museums.

    Outdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Outdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmade+2 more
  • Interior of the Manitou Springs Land of Ozz with goth clothing, band shirts, mannequins, and memorabilia
    CO

    Manitou Springs, CO

    Land of Ozz

    A Manitou Springs shop where vinyl records, books, posters, vintage rock clothing, goth fashion, custom jewelry, games, and adult memorabilia share one Ruxton Avenue storefront.

    Land of Ozz combines the inventory of a record store, bookstore, vintage rock boutique, goth clothing shop, jewelry counter, game store, and memorabilia dealer in one small Manitou Springs stop.

    Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintage+4 more
  • Wooden pull toys and handcrafted figures displayed on shelves inside LARK Toys in Kellogg
    MN

    Kellogg, MN

    LARK Toys

    A Kellogg toy store where handmade wooden toys are built on-site beside a bookstore, Curiosity Shoppe and antique-toy displays — then the building opens into a hand-carved carousel, café and sweets, miniature llamas and seasonal 18-hole mini-golf.

    LARK Toys combines serious specialty retail and on-site toy making with books, gifts, food, an antique toy collection, living animals, a hand-carved carousel and seasonal mini-golf.

    Food & drinkBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+3 more
  • Left Foot Farm sign at the Eatonville goat dairy property
    WA

    Eatonville, WA

    Left Foot Farm

    An Eatonville goat dairy where the Farm Store sells milk, eggs and goat-milk goods while visitors can freely walk the pastures, see the herd and view the milking operation before choosing deeper scheduled farm experiences.

    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.

    Grocery & pantryFarm & gardenHealth & personal carePets & animalsGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Grocery & pantryFarm & gardenHealth & personal care+3 more
  • Exterior of Lehman’s in Kidron, Ohio
    OH

    Kidron, OH

    Lehman’s

    A low-tech superstore selling non-electric tools, wood stoves, oil lamps, homesteading equipment, emergency supplies, food, toys, and historical technology inside connected historic structures.

    Lehman’s combines non-electric tools, wood and heating equipment, kitchen goods, homesteading supplies, emergency products, toys, books, food, demonstrations, and historical displays.

    Books, records & mediaFarm & gardenFood & drinkHardware & toolsHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesOther
    Books, records & mediaFarm & gardenFood & drink+4 more
  • Tool-filled first floor of Liberty Tool Company in Liberty with hand tools covering tables and walls
    ME

    Liberty, ME

    Liberty Tool Company

    A three-story Liberty institution where thousands of used, vintage and antique tools dominate the first floor before the building turns into vendor-filled levels of antiques, books, artwork, glassware, vintage clothing, home décor and whatever else has arrived this week.

    Liberty Tool Company begins as a serious secondhand tool dealer and gradually transforms, floor by floor, into an antique market, book-and-paper shop, vintage-clothing hunt and general repository of one-of-a-kind things.

    Hardware & toolsAntiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Hardware & toolsAntiques & vintageBooks, records & media+5 more
  • Wide interior of Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar gift shop with souvenir aisles and panels of donated dollar coins displayed at the rear
    MT

    Haugan, MT

    Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar & Gift Shop

    An I-90 gift shop and travel stop built around a barroom covered in 50,000+ donated dollar coins, with Montana souvenirs and collectibles sharing the property with a restaurant, 24-hour fuel and convenience store, motel and one of the West's strangest long-running roadside collections.

    Lincoln's 50,000 Silver Dollar turned a 1952 bar-top gimmick into an entire Montana travel complex where the growing coin collection is surrounded by retail, food, fuel and lodging.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsFuel & convenienceOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+4 more
  • Exterior of Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel with alien figures, the street number and Earthlings Welcome signage
    NV

    Rachel, NV

    Little A'Le'Inn

    A tiny Rachel alien gift shop that also operates as the town restaurant, bar, motel, RV stop and campground — an Area 51 roadside basecamp stocked with extraterrestrial shirts, mugs, hats and souvenirs.

    Little A'Le'Inn bundles nearly every service a traveler might need into one deliberately extraterrestrial roadside business.

    Food & drinkApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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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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