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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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  • Exterior of Dick’s 5 & 10 in downtown Branson with the red-and-white five-and-dime storefront and Main Street entrance
    MO

    Branson, MO

    Dick’s 5 & 10

    A 10,000-square-foot Branson five-and-dime packed with what the store says are more than 250,000 different items beneath running model trains and museum-like private collections.

    Dick’s mixes the chaotic breadth of an old five-and-dime with candy, soda, books, toys, housewares, crafts and a private museum’s worth of collections displayed throughout the working store.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsPets & animalsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+7 more
  • Digger’s Dungeon storefront windows painted with the shop name, skulls and Grave Digger artwork
    NC

    Poplar Branch, NC

    Digger’s Dungeon

    A Grave Digger-themed Outer Banks roadside shop where monster-truck merchandise and memorabilia share the property with historic trucks, the Rust in Peace Museum and separately operated family attractions.

    Digger’s Dungeon is a working Grave Digger merchandise stop and monster-truck fan destination with displays and a museum component at the team’s recognizable Poplar Branch property.

    Apparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsAutomotive & mechanicalOther
    Apparel & footwearToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirs+2 more
  • Dollar Hobbyz Raceway radio-control racing destination in Woodbury, MN
    MN

    Woodbury, MN

    Dollar Hobbyz Raceway

    Dollar Hobbyz Raceway turns a retail hobby operation with a polished indoor RC raceway into a visitable hobby destination.

    Dollar Hobbyz Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Woodbury, MN.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Duran's roadside monument sign identifying the pharmacy, New Mexican diner and specialty shop at 1815 Central Avenue NW
    NM

    Albuquerque, NM

    Duran Central Pharmacy

    An Albuquerque pharmacy where prescriptions and vaccinations share a Route 66 building with an eclectic gift shop and a full New Mexican diner serving hand-rolled tortillas, chile-heavy plates and lunch-counter comfort food.

    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.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careServices & repairsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryApparel & footwear+6 more
  • Wide exterior of the current Dutchman's Store building along Highway 2 near Cantril at sunset
    IA

    Cantril, IA

    Dutchman's Store

    A 50,000-square-foot Cantril general store where bulk groceries, bakery and deli counters lead into books, clothing, toys, butchering and canning supplies, kitchen goods, homestead gear, sporting goods, health products, and a café serving pizza and a hot lunch buffet.

    Dutchman's Store takes the old rural general-store idea to enormous scale, combining groceries and fresh food with clothing, books, toys, household supplies, butchering gear, canning equipment, sporting goods and café service.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishing+7 more
  • Interior of the current Dysfunctional Grace Ybor City shop with taxidermy arranged around its corner storefront windows
    FL

    Tampa, FL

    Dysfunctional Grace

    A Ybor City oddities shop where taxidermy, skulls, preserved specimens, vintage metaphysical equipment, art, antiques, furniture, occult objects, workshops, and a sprawling annual oddities convention all connect.

    Dysfunctional Grace blends a macabre Ybor retail shop with art, antiques, taxidermy, metaphysical equipment, specimens, workshops and the wider Tabernacle of Oddities community it organizes.

    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furniture+3 more
  • Exterior of Eagle's Store in West Yellowstone with its rustic log facade, Eagle's Store sign and Eagle's Curios marquee
    MT

    West Yellowstone, MT

    Eagle's Store

    A century-old West Yellowstone store where fishing tackle, backpacking equipment, hiking and cowboy boots, western wear, jewelry, books and souvenirs surround an old-fashioned soda fountain whose back bar dates to 1910 and whose early counter and stools are still part of the experience.

    Eagle's Store combines serious outdoor and western retail with a working historic soda fountain inside one of West Yellowstone's surviving early commercial landmarks.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishing+5 more
  • Working rabbit at the East By West checkout counter with store merchandise in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
    AR

    Eureka Springs, AR

    East By West

    A downtown Eureka Springs gift and clothing shop where the cashier helping hand may belong to a trained rescue rabbit.

    East By West mixes international gifts, clothing, souvenirs, jewelry, soaps, and assorted curiosities with one of Eureka Springs' strangest retail traditions: working rabbits that help customers at the checkout counter.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmade+3 more
  • Exterior of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart at 1714 W. Sunset Boulevard
    CA

    Los Angeles, CA

    Echo Park Time Travel Mart

    A convenience store for time travelers where Mammoth Chunks, future supplies, books, kitchen goods, toys, apparel, writing gear, student publications, and impossible products from every era fill three little aisles.

    The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a real retail front for 826LA's youth-writing programs, selling books, toys, household goods, apparel, stationery, and student publications alongside fictional survival supplies supposedly imported from the past and future.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeApparel & footwearGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furniture+4 more
  • Exterior of Edwards Mill at College of the Ozarks with the signed mill building and water wheel beside the porch
    MO

    Point Lookout, MO

    Edwards Mill & General Store

    A Point Lookout general store inside a working water-wheel grist mill, where College of the Ozarks students grind corn and specialty milled goods for sale while traditional weaving and basket making continue upstairs.

    Edwards Mill combines specialty-food and craft retail with the machinery and student work that produce much of what visitors buy.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furnitureArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryHome goods & furniture+3 more
  • EN Hobbies radio-control racing destination in Columbus, OH
    OH

    Columbus, OH

    EN Hobbies

    EN Hobbies turns a hobby store where indoor RC tracks occupy the same destination into a visitable hobby destination.

    EN Hobbies combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Columbus, OH.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Exterior of the Ethel M Chocolates Henderson flagship with its sign visible behind the cactus garden
    NV

    Henderson, NV

    Ethel M Chocolates Factory & Cactus Garden

    A Henderson chocolate flagship where boxed sweets and a café sit beside a working factory viewing aisle and a three-acre botanical cactus garden containing more than 300 plant species.

    Ethel M turns chocolate retail into a factory-and-garden destination where visitors can watch confectionery production, shop the finished product and explore a major desert-plant collection.

    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Food & drinkGrocery & pantryGifts, novelty & souvenirs+1 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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