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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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ME
Belfast, ME
Perry's Nut House
A Belfast Route 1 institution selling homemade fudge, nuts, candy, ice cream, Maine gifts and toys beneath a roadside menagerie that currently includes a stuffed gorilla, alligator and python hides, trick mirrors, murals and a curiosity the store calls its mummified body.
Perry's Nut House keeps the old American roadside-attraction formula alive by combining a working candy, fudge, nut and gift business with a restored assortment of strange displays and visual gags.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+3 more
IL
Livingston, IL
Pink Elephant Antique Mall
A 30,000-square-foot antique mall inside a 1929 high school, surrounded by giant fiberglass roadside creatures and joined by a fudge-and-candy shop plus a working diner inside an enormous ice-cream cone.
Pink Elephant Antique Mall turns a Route 66 antiques stop into a full roadside compound of giant fiberglass figures, dozens of dealers, homemade fudge and candy, an ice-cream-cone diner and increasingly strange seasonal events.
Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureFood & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageHome goods & furnitureFood & drink+3 more
LA
Wisner, LA
Pit Stop RC Raceway
Pit Stop RC Raceway turns a purpose-built outdoor dirt RC track on a rural racing property into a visitable hobby destination.
Pit Stop RC Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Wisner, LA.
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
OK
Arcadia, OK
Pops
A Route 66 gas station where a wall of more than 700 soda flavors wraps around a modern diner, while a 66-foot illuminated soda bottle towers over the pumps outside.
Pops turns an everyday fuel stop into a specialty soda store, full restaurant and oversized Route 66 roadside landmark.
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsFuel & convenienceOther
Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+2 more
AL
Mentone, AL
Possum Emporium
A former church on Lookout Mountain turned antiques-and-curiosities market, mixing vintage furniture, collectibles, crafts, home décor, oddities, musical instruments, and fresh farm produce.
Possum Emporium combines an indoor vendor market of antiques, vintage goods, handmade crafts, décor, collectibles, instruments, and curiosities with an outdoor produce and pop-up-vendor setup in a converted church outside Mentone.
Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furniture+3 more
SD
Rapid City, SD
Presidential Pawn & Pawnseum
A downtown Rapid City pawn shop that shares its storefront with a clock-and-watch shop and a free ‘Pawnseum,’ where historical curios and pop-culture artifacts sit inside a working resale business and may even be offered for sale.
Presidential Pawn blurs the line between museum case and sales case by combining an active pawn shop, specialty clock operation and free curiosity museum.
Antiques & vintageApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsServices & repairsOther
Antiques & vintageApparel & footwearHome goods & furniture+4 more
FL
Winter Park, FL
Prometheus Esoterica
A Winter Park oddities shop where taxidermy, preserved specimens, antique medical and occult books, skulls, art, apparel, crystals, strange gifts, and coffee all inhabit a dark little cabinet of curiosities.
Prometheus Esoterica combines a natural-history oddities shop with antiques, gothic apparel, books, art, gifts, crystals, preserved specimens, and a theatrical environment designed as much for lingering and looking as buying.
Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaApparel & footwear+3 more
CT
Enfield, CT
R/C Madness
R/C Madness turns a hobby store and multi-track RC racing complex into a visitable hobby destination.
R/C Madness combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Enfield, CT.
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
GA
Chamblee, GA
Rainy Day Revival
A Chamblee oddities shop where taxidermy, wet specimens, medical and funerary material, vintage dolls, religious objects, tools, toys, and antiques fill Suite B of a larger curiosity complex.
Rainy Day Revival combines an oddities and antique shop with medical, funerary, natural-history and novelty material inside a North Peachtree Road complex that also houses the adjacent Oddities Museum.
Antiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
WY
Laramie, WY
Range Leather Co.
A downtown Laramie leather shop where bags, wallets and belts are made across multiple floors of an 1890s building, with Saturday tours following full hides through cutting and stitching and separate appointments for designing a custom bag.
Range Leather makes the workshop itself part of the retail experience, allowing shoppers to see the people and machines building the goods sold downstairs.
Apparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsServices & repairsOther
Apparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs+2 more
OH
Oberlin, OH
Ratsy’s Store
An Oberlin storefront mixing vintage clothing, weird socks, retro sunglasses, old curiosities, strange earrings, dinosaur people, and planters made from doll heads.
Ratsy’s combines vintage and recycled clothing, strange gifts, odd socks, retro accessories, curiosities, handmade jewelry, old objects, and deliberately bizarre craft pieces.
Antiques & vintageApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
Antiques & vintageApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
MA
Fitchburg, MA
RC Excitement
RC Excitement turns a large hobby destination with indoor and outdoor RC facilities into a visitable hobby destination.
RC Excitement combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Fitchburg, MA.
Toys, games & hobbiesOther
Toys, games & hobbiesOther

What Makes an OddStop?

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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