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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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  • American Science & Surplus Geneva and West Chicago storefront with its roadside sign and Scour the Earth hearse
    IL

    West Chicago, IL

    American Science & Surplus

    A West Chicago surplus labyrinth where laboratory gear, electronics, optics, hardware, craft supplies, models, tools, containers, toys, military leftovers, industrial parts, and objects nobody can quite identify constantly replace one another.

    American Science & Surplus turns closeouts, overruns, scientific equipment and miscellaneous industrial leftovers into an employee-owned store where useful tools, educational gear, toys and inexplicable components occupy the same aisles.

    Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
  • Angoon Trading Co. building on the waterfront in Angoon, Alaska
    AK

    Angoon, AK

    Angoon Trading Co.

    A remote island general store where groceries, hardware, lumber, clothing, gifts, freight service, and espresso all have to fit under one roof.

    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.

    Grocery & pantryHardware & toolsApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsFood & drinkServices & repairs
    Grocery & pantryHardware & toolsApparel & footwear+4 more
  • Weathered wooden Apple Hill Farm barn with red trim and an open Farm Store entrance
    NC

    Banner Elk, NC

    Apple Hill Farm

    A Blue Ridge working alpaca and fiber farm where a barn-based farm store sells yarn, socks, craft kits and animal-themed goods, while advance-ticketed guided tours provide controlled access to the animals.

    Apple Hill Farm combines a working fiber-animal farm with a substantial farm store and separately scheduled guided tours of its animal areas.

    Farm & gardenApparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsPets & animalsOther
    Farm & gardenApparel & footwearBooks, records & media+5 more
  • ARCOR Raceway radio-control racing destination in Albuquerque, NM
    NM

    Albuquerque, NM

    ARCOR Raceway

    ARCOR Raceway turns an outdoor club track in Mesa del Sol built for off-road RC racing into a visitable hobby destination.

    ARCOR Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Albuquerque, NM.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Wide exterior of Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley with its green-and-pink alien-themed facade and signed entrance
    NV

    Amargosa Valley, NV

    Area 51 Alien Center

    An Amargosa Valley alien gift shop crossed with a desert travel center, where Area 51 shirts, mugs and souvenirs share the property with convenience-store supplies, gas and diesel, a restaurant, showers and overnight rooms.

    Area 51 Alien Center turns a functioning highway service stop into a full extraterrestrial retail environment without losing the practical fuel, food and traveler services underneath it.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsFuel & convenienceOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+3 more
  • Art of Play storefront at 69 Atlantic Avenue with games, puzzles and curiosities listed across its windows
    NY

    Brooklyn, NY

    Art of Play at 69 Atlantic

    A Brooklyn shop devoted to beautifully made games, puzzles, playing cards, optical curiosities and playful design, with a hidden 26-seat theater presenting ticketed magic for adults behind the retail space.

    Art of Play at 69 Atlantic combines a design-minded game and curiosity store with an intimate concealed theater whose scheduled shows remain separate from ordinary shopping.

    Home goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Home goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbies+2 more
  • Aspen Park RC Raceway radio-control racing destination in Brandon, SD
    SD

    Brandon, SD

    Aspen Park RC Raceway

    Aspen Park RC Raceway turns an outdoor RC course tucked into a municipal park into a visitable hobby destination.

    Aspen Park RC Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Brandon, SD.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Ax-Man Surplus storefront at 1639 University Avenue in St. Paul with the large roadside Ax-Man sign
    MN

    St. Paul, MN

    Ax-Man Surplus — St. Paul

    A St. Paul surplus store where scientific, industrial, electronic and mechanical leftovers share bins with art supplies, teacher materials, failed consumer products and mysterious manufactured objects that may arrive without an obvious original purpose.

    Ax-Man Surplus has spent decades turning unwanted industrial and scientific inventory into a retail treasure hunt for artists, engineers, teachers, makers and anyone drawn to inexplicable components.

    Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeAutomotive & mechanicalGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Hardware & toolsToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
  • Candy-store interior at B.A. Sweetie Candy Company in Cleveland, Ohio
    OH

    Cleveland, OH

    B.A. Sweetie Candy Company Campus

    A giant candy warehouse joined by an old-fashioned soda shop, on-site ice-cream production, hundreds of bottled sodas, and thirty-six holes of miniature golf.

    The Cleveland campus combines a massive candy store, wholesale warehouse, soda shop, homemade ice cream, bottled sodas, popcorn, and two miniature-golf courses.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 more
  • Outdoor Barberville Yard Art Emporium display with a giant eagle sculpture and acres of colorful yard art behind it
    FL

    Pierson, FL

    Barberville Yard Art Emporium

    A three-acre Central Florida yard-art wonderland where giant aluminum animals, dinosaurs, Talavera pottery, fountains, bizarre mailboxes, teak-root furniture, windmills, carvings, and enormous sculptures are all actually for sale.

    Barberville Yard Art Emporium turns outdoor décor shopping into a roadside attraction, spreading giant animals, metal sculptures, fountains, pottery, furniture, mailboxes and handmade art across three acres.

    Farm & gardenHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Farm & gardenHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmade+2 more
  • Exterior of the original Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World flagship in Springfield with the signed log-front entrance
    MO

    Springfield, MO

    Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World — Springfield

    The original Springfield Bass Pro is roughly half a million square feet of outdoor retail wrapped around seven aquariums, an alligator-and-turtle swamp, waterfalls, boats, vehicles, a restaurant and multiple in-store museums.

    Bass Pro Shops’ original flagship operates simultaneously as a massive outdoor retailer, wildlife environment, boat-and-vehicle showroom, restaurant and museum complex.

    Outdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsAutomotive & mechanicalFood & drinkOther
    Outdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furniture+5 more
  • Batson's Drug Store and Family Market storefront in downtown Howard with pharmacy, market and gift signage
    KS

    Howard, KS

    Batson's Drug Store and Family Market

    A Howard storefront where a working pharmacy shares space with a full grocery, fresh-cut meat and produce, gifts and flowers, plus an old-fashioned soda fountain pouring floats and scooping 16 flavors into homemade waffle cones.

    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.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careServices & repairsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+3 more

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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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