Stores

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

This store decorated with Japanese and underground pop culture items has been the centre of Barcelona alternative fashion scenes for more than a decade.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

Stocks of hardware, automotive supplies, crockery, and farm machinery are on display as though time had simply stopped at some point in the 1930s.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A quirky hardware store filled with museum-worthy cars and motorcycles, including a motorcycle that set a land speed record in 1967.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

A neighborhood grocery store established a local civil rights leader.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

This 19th-century shopping arcade has charming, unusual stores like a luthier workshop and even the local Esperanto Association.

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

A bakery and variety store filled with an extensive taxidermy collection.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.