Stores

Charming bookshop for true-crime fans and horror aficionados, plus other books and odds and ends.

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

An art gallery/gift shop that feels like Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Jim Henson combined!

A general store in rural New York has been selling hardware, candy, and conversation to the same families for 175 years straight.

Deep in the Richloam wilderness, a century-old country store is stocked with plenty of stories.

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

The “capital city of the Kingdom of Skullbonia” features a general store and a mural spotlighting the town’s bareknuckle boxers.

A century-old wooden walkway where artists and free spirits have built a funky, countercultural main street.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

A walk-through general store display reveals how community once functioned in rural coastal America.

This ancient tomb was discovered during the construction of a Turkish supermarket and was preserved.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

This historic trading post has been serving the community since 1913.

The oldest producer of embroidered Western wear.