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Cash For Your Warhol, Inman Square's newest fake business.
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An Afternoon At Boston's Newest Parody Storefront, 'Cash For Your Warhol'

Cara Giaimo January 25, 2016
Permanently Closed
Thanksgiving Grocery, "Cuisine de la Louisiane."
Paris, France

Thanksgiving Grocery

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.
NWA inflatable plane balloon
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Ax-Man Surplus

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
stores

There's a Man Scattering Very Funny Fake Books, Signs and Pamphlets Around L.A.

Sarah Laskow October 2, 2015
maps

Behold: The Ultimate Crowdsourced Map of Punny Businesses in America

Atlas Obscura September 30, 2015
Inside the Lamson ball, from a 1912 Lamson catalogue.
railroads

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

Tony Wolf September 29, 2015
stores

The Ohio Superstore That Beat Walmart by Giving Up Electricity

Sarah Laskow September 28, 2015
churches

We Asked a Cultural Historian: Are Apple Stores the New Temples?

Sarah Laskow September 25, 2015
roadside attractions

The Secrets of America's Best Rest Stop: Free Ice Water, Donuts, the Cutest Jackalopes in Town

Sarah Laskow July 31, 2015
stores

The Best Magic Shops in the World

Jessica Guerra November 13, 2014
Baltimore, Maryland

Bazaar

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Brooklyn, New York

The Remains of Abraham & Straus Department Store

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.
curio cabinets

Tombées du Camion: Inside a Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities

Melissa Lesnie April 22, 2014
Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities
Chicago, Illinois

Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
curio cabinets

Love in the Time of Irony: A Neon Heart Beats on in a Home for NYC Wanderers

Shannon Moore Shepherd February 13, 2014
Papa Legba greets all the customers at the entry way.
Huntington Park, California

Saydel Inc.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.
Simmons-Wright Company Store
Toomsuba, Mississippi

Simmons-Wright Company Store

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.
The Joseph Boston Store, better known as Casa del Oro.
Monterey, California

Casa del Oro

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.