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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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ARRogers, AR
NWA RC Raceway turns a dedicated radio-control raceway in a neighborhood storefront into a visitable hobby destination.
NWA RC Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Rogers, AR.
OHAkron, OH
A permanent retail version of an art fair, comic convention, toy show, craft market, vintage event, gaming festival, and general celebration of undefinable otherness.
Oddmall Outpost is a consignment store overflowing with original art, handmade crafts, games, toys, comics, collectibles, vintage objects, oddities, and work from numerous creators.
AKWasilla, AK
Off the Walls RC turns an indoor carpet circuit with a dedicated pit and driver area into a visitable hobby destination.
Off the Walls RC combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Wasilla, AK.
CTWethersfield, CT
An Old Wethersfield general store where penny candy, local soda, coffee and tea, spices, kitchen goods, décor, candles, soaps, cocktail mixers, books, puzzles, games, and vintage toys all still share the shelves.
Old Wethersfield Country Store takes the classic neighborhood general-store idea seriously, mixing sweets and local foods with kitchen supplies, home goods, self-care products, books, games, toys, drinks, and work from local makers.
MEBelfast, ME
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.
LAWisner, LA
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.
PAButler, PA
A hands-on toy store housed inside a metallic building that resembles a spacecraft or stealth aircraft landed beside a Pennsylvania highway.
Playthings Etc. is a large specialty toy store distinguished by spaceship-like architecture, hands-on product demonstrations, and an experiential shopping environment.
CTEnfield, CT
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.
GAChamblee, GA
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.
MAFitchburg, MA
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.
NVSparks, NV
A 295,000-square-foot Sparks sporting and fashion store where 85+ specialty departments surround a 65-foot indoor Ferris wheel, 16,000-gallon saltwater aquarium, wildlife mountain, arcade games, candy shop and café serving homemade fudge.
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.
WINew Richmond, WI
Rick’s Hobby Farm / Freedom Raceway turns an outdoor RC raceway built into a hobby farm property into a visitable hobby destination.
Rick’s Hobby Farm / Freedom Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in New Richmond, WI.
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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