Unique and Unusual Stores Across America

Big Chicken Barn turns a relic of Maine's poultry era into a two-story collecting universe: antiques and household objects below, mountains of books, magazines, newspapers and paper ephemera above.

Big Mike's combines rocks, minerals, crystals, fossils, jewelry and Kentucky souvenirs with geode cutting, a giant roadside Mosasaurus and an old-school optical-illusion attraction.

Big Wind Kite Factory turns a specialty kite shop into a working Molokaʻi attraction, selling handmade and performance kites while inviting visitors to see how they are made and learn how to fly them.

Black Cat combines new books, themed rooms, interactive environments, gifts, toys, curiosities, events, hidden passages, and a second historic house.

Bronner's turns Christmas retail into a year-round physical environment of ornaments, lights, enormous sales floors, landscaped holiday grounds, nightly illuminated displays, historical exhibits and a chapel.

Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. is both a playful superhero store and the public front for a nonprofit writing center reached through a concealed passage.

Buck Atom’s turns an active souvenir and local-art shop into its own modern Route 66 roadside attraction through a restored filling-station setting and giant custom Muffler Men.

Byler's West Dover starts as a grocery outlet and country market, then keeps going into bulk foods, deli and bakery counters, ice cream, a serious kitchen center, cookbooks, commercial cookware, home décor, bath goods, toys, collectibles and a full gift shop.

Cabela’s Sidney combines a full outdoor retail store with museum-scale wildlife displays and the history of the company’s Nebraska beginnings.

Call of the Wild combines a substantial independent retail floor with a long-running wildlife and Michigan-history museum, then adds seasonal miniature-golf and go-kart attractions to the same roadside property.

Cameron Trading Post has grown from a 1916 trading post into a large retail and travel stop combining Native American art and craft with food, clothing, housewares, toys, collectibles, knives, a market, restaurant, lodging, and other traveler services.

Catalpa Trading Company combines magic tricks, antiques, collectibles, nostalgic gifts, toys, candy, a theater, a magic museum, and live performance programming.