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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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Matching stores Angoon Trading Co. selected. 01 Angoon, AK Angoon Trading Co. Angoon Trading Co. serves the Admiralty Island community as far more than a grocery store, combining everyday food with hardware, building supplies, clothing, gifts, freight logistics, and coffee in one independent shop. ★ 02 Howard, KS Batson's Drug Store and Family Market Batson's Drug Store and Family Market compresses a pharmacy, grocery, butcher counter, produce market, soda fountain, gift shop and floral department into one of rural Kansas's most useful — and hardest to classify — storefronts. ★ 03 Queenstown, MD Bennett Point General Store An Eastern Shore general store where visitors can fuel up, order deli food, shop for beer, wine, and liquor, and arrange landscaping services. ★ 04 Pittsburgh, PA Bicycle Heaven Bicycle Heaven combines an enormous bicycle museum with a working bike shop, parts inventory, repair services, memorabilia, and thousands of bikes. ★ 05 New York, NY Bowne & Co., Stationers Bowne & Co., Stationers is a museum-operated retail shop and working letterpress destination where visitors can buy paper goods while seeing printing history practiced next door. ★ 06 Sidney, NE Cabela’s — Sidney Cabela’s Sidney combines a full outdoor retail store with museum-scale wildlife displays and the history of the company’s Nebraska beginnings. ★ 07 Oskaloosa, KS Country Corner Variety Country Corner Variety bundles a small-town café and soda fountain together with gifts, cards, flowers, locally made goods, consignment merchandise and a grab bag of practical services that normal retailers stopped combining decades ago. ★ 08 Stanley, ND Dakota Drug of Stanley Dakota Drug of Stanley combines a community pharmacy, broad gift-and-toy shop and working vintage soda fountain under one roof. ★ 09 Albuquerque, NM Duran Central Pharmacy Duran Central Pharmacy is simultaneously a working neighborhood pharmacy, an unusually broad specialty shop and a serious New Mexican diner—a combination that makes an everyday errand feel like three unrelated businesses occupying one institution. ★ 10 Philipsburg, MT Gem Mountain — Philipsburg Gem Mountain combines hands-on sapphire hunting and serious gemstone retail with an unexpectedly broad showroom of fossils, furniture, carvings and natural-history décor. ★ 11 Summerville, SC Guerin’s Pharmacy Guerin’s combines a working independent pharmacy, sundries and local gifts with a preserved soda fountain that still serves classic counter treats. ★ 12 Nashville, TN Hatch Show Print Hatch Show Print is simultaneously a production letterpress shop, design archive, retail store and hands-on visitor experience. ★ 13 Baltimore, MD Housewerks Salvage Housewerks sells architectural and industrial antiques, furniture, lighting, hardware, doors, windows, garden pieces, and decorative objects inside Baltimore’s historic Bayard Station. ★ 14 Walcott, IA Iowa 80 Truckstop Iowa 80 Truckstop turns a highway fuel stop into an enormous retail, dining, service and entertainment complex where travelers can shop, eat, watch a movie, visit a museum, see a dentist, wash a dog and outfit an entire semi without leaving the property. ★ 15 Tucson, AZ Luna Ink & Oddities Luna Ink & Oddities combines a working tattoo studio with a curated retail shop for plants, oddities, local goods, art, specimens, and other strange pieces in Tucson's Historic Fourth Avenue district. ★ 16 Minot, ND Margie’s Art Glass Studio Margie’s combines art-glass and ceramics retail, working studio space, classes and a coffee shop in one Main Street storefront. ★ 17 Tekamah, NE Master’s Hand Master’s Hand gathers handmade sweets, candles, bakery food, boutique retail, floral work and sit-down dining into one country property. ★ 18 Rapid City, SD Motion Unlimited Museum & Classic Sales Motion Unlimited is simultaneously a curated automotive museum and a functioning classic-car business where many other vintage vehicles are actively bought and sold. ★ 19 Coleman, TX Owl Drug Store Owl Drug Store combines a current independent pharmacy, gift boutique and century-old soda-fountain tradition under one downtown Coleman roof. ★ 20 Rapid City, SD Presidential Pawn & Pawnseum Presidential Pawn blurs the line between museum case and sales case by combining an active pawn shop, specialty clock operation and free curiosity museum. ★ 21 Laramie, WY Range Leather Co. Range Leather makes the workshop itself part of the retail experience, allowing shoppers to see the people and machines building the goods sold downstairs. ★ 22 Sparks, NV Reno-Sparks SCHEELS 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. ★ 23 McLeansville, NC Replacements, Ltd. 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. ★ 24 Baltimore, MD Second Chance Second Chance combines architectural salvage, reusable building materials, furniture, appliances, lighting, home décor, and oversized reclaimed objects in one nonprofit retail warehouse. ★ 25 New Orleans, LA She Comes in Peace She Comes in Peace combines a fantasy and science-fiction costume shop with a creative-color hair salon, handmade statement pieces and a highly theatrical interior. ★ 26 Slanesville, WV Slanesville General Store 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. ★ Browse Unique and Unusual Stores by State 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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