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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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  • Interior of the new downtown Golden Curiosity Shop with natural-history displays and a Van de Graaff demonstration
    CO

    Golden, CO

    Golden Curiosity Shop

    A downtown Golden curiosity shop where taxidermy, skulls, fossils, meteorites, insects, minerals, books, science toys, live axolotls, a T. rex, and a 400,000-volt generator turn retail into a miniature natural-history museum.

    Golden Curiosity Shop mixes the shelves of a natural-history dealer, mineral shop, science store, bookshop, and curiosity cabinet with interactive demonstrations and museum-scale displays inside its new downtown Golden location.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furniture+2 more
  • Exterior of the Graveface Records & Curiosities flagship at 5 W. 40th Street in Savannah
    GA

    Savannah, GA

    Graveface Records & Curiosities

    A Savannah flagship where vinyl and label releases share a Starland storefront with cassettes, VHS, horror collectibles, toys, games, apparel, taxidermy, and other curiosities.

    Graveface Records & Curiosities combines an independent record shop and label outlet with dead media, horror collectibles, toys, games, apparel, taxidermy and other curiosities in Savannah's Starland area.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesApparel & footwear+2 more
  • Shelves of dollhouse furniture for sale in the Great American Dollhouse Museum Miniatures Store
    KY

    Danville, KY

    Great American Dollhouse Museum & Miniatures Store

    A 6,000-square-foot miniature world whose museum galleries lead back to a walk-in hobby store packed with tiny furniture, building materials, lighting, dolls, artisan pieces and bargain drawers.

    The Great American Dollhouse Museum pairs more than 200 miniature buildings and room boxes with a fully stocked lobby shop for dollhouse furniture, structures, components, décor and artisan miniatures.

    Home goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirs
    Home goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbies+2 more
  • Halloween Adventure interior with a skull chandelier above packed costume, mask, prop, and apparel displays
    NY

    New York, NY

    Halloween Adventure / New York Costumes

    A year-round East Village costume superstore, established in the mid-1980s, where two levels of masks, wigs, makeup, props, animatronics, apparel, theatrical supplies, and skull chandeliers fill a sprawling permanent shop.

    Halloween Adventure, also branded New York Costumes, is a sprawling year-round Halloween and theatrical retail environment with deep costume stock, horror décor, professional makeup, props, accessories, and changing themed events.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbies+4 more
  • Halloween Town’s signed 2921 Magnolia Boulevard storefront with an Open Year Round awning and monster display
    CA

    Burbank, CA

    Halloween Town

    A year-round Burbank Halloween institution split between two Magnolia Boulevard stores packed with props, décor, masks, costumes, toys, books, gifts, apparel, and full-size monsters.

    Halloween Town operates a large year-round Halloween shop and a separate costume storefront on the same Burbank block, turning permanent spooky retail into a two-stop neighborhood experience.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & media+3 more
  • Hank Perry Raceway radio-control racing destination in Spokane Valley, WA
    WA

    Spokane Valley, WA

    Hank Perry Raceway

    Hank Perry Raceway turns a seasonal outdoor RC raceway with a full-size drivers’ stand into a visitable hobby destination.

    Hank Perry Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Spokane Valley, WA.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Exterior of Harrison Brothers Hardware in Huntsville, Alabama
    AL

    Huntsville, AL

    Harrison Brothers Hardware

    A preserved Huntsville hardware store that no longer really sells hardware, instead mixing local art, pottery, jewelry, toys, books, gourmet foods, housewares, and a history museum among century-old fixtures.

    Harrison Brothers keeps its historic retail environment intact while operating as a shop for local and regional art, fine crafts, housewares, foods, books, toys, gifts, and other goods.

    Art, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Art, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGrocery & pantry+4 more
  • Exterior of the sandstone High Amana General Store with its 1857 sign above the entrance
    IA

    High Amana, IA

    High Amana General Store

    An operating general store founded in 1857 where gifts, food, toys, books, housewares and handmade soaps are still sold among original wooden floors, glass display cases and a tin ceiling preserved from another era.

    High Amana General Store is both a working shop and a preserved retail museum, selling modern merchandise inside an 1857 store whose historic interior has changed remarkably little.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • Hobby Action RC Raceway radio-control racing destination in Chandler, AZ
    AZ

    Chandler, AZ

    Hobby Action RC Raceway

    Hobby Action RC Raceway turns a full hobby shop paired with a large indoor dirt raceway into a visitable hobby destination.

    Hobby Action RC Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Chandler, AZ.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • HobbyTown HobbyPlex radio-control racing destination in Omaha, NE
    NE

    Omaha, NE

    HobbyTown HobbyPlex

    HobbyTown HobbyPlex turns a HobbyTown-linked complex with a broad indoor RC course into a visitable hobby destination.

    HobbyTown HobbyPlex combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Omaha, NE.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Exterior of Hollywood Candy on Jackson Street in Omaha with its illuminated candy-store marquee
    NE

    Omaha, NE

    Hollywood Candy

    An Old Market candy store where house-made chocolate, fudge, retro and international sweets and more than 150 chilled sodas open into a diner, pinball arcade, theater and memorabilia-filled rooms.

    Hollywood Candy combines an enormous candy and soda selection with a diner, arcade, theater and changing pop-culture displays in Omaha’s Old Market.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryBooks, records & media+3 more
  • Hoosier RC Hobbyplex radio-control racing destination in New Albany, IN
    IN

    New Albany, IN

    Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

    Hoosier RC Hobbyplex turns a hobby shop with indoor off-road and oval racing space into a visitable hobby destination.

    Hoosier RC Hobbyplex combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in New Albany, IN.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther

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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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