Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Reno-Sparks SCHEELS combines a massive working sporting-goods and fashion store with amusement-park, aquarium, wildlife-display, candy and café components under one roof.

Replacements, Ltd. turns an enormous specialist inventory of tableware and collectibles into a public showroom with design displays, museum pieces, restoration services and guided tours.

Richlands connects a working dairy and on-farm processing plant with a creamery selling milk, butter, ice cream and food at the public 460 Cox Road entrance.

Rick’s Hobby Farm / Freedom Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in New Richmond, WI.

River House combines antiques for sale with lunch, ice cream and an old-fashioned soda fountain inside a remarkably preserved historic barroom.

Robert Is Here still sells rare tropical fruit at its core, but the family roadside stand has expanded into milkshakes, specialty sauces and preserves, live animals, play space, picnicking, community events and weekend music.

Rockin' Rudy's behaves less like a record shop with gifts than an alternative department store whose departments seem to have been selected by curiosity rather than conventional retail logic.

Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities combines an artist collective and handmade nature-art studio with a plant shop, record bin, vintage store, crystal-and-jewelry counter, antique shelf, and oddities cabinet.

Roosevelt Tower stretches thrift shopping across an old factory property, mixing antiques and salvage with records, machines, motorcycles, taxidermy, toys, militaria, electronics, signage, collectibles, and oversized objects backed by a huge warehouse.

Route 11’s Mount Jackson factory pairs chip retail and samples with free window viewing of most production steps when the line is running.

Sandpit RC combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Jonesville, MI.

SAS combines its San Antonio factory outlet with a nostalgic General Store, snack counter, vintage displays and scheduled tours of active American shoe production.