Any number of single off thrift stores. Sometimes they just have clothing and dead crockpots. Sometimes they have alligator leather jackets and mirror covered purses among weirder shit.
I have not shopped there myself, but I think that the Bass Pro pyramid in Memphis probably is a reasonable candidate for a weird US store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid
Both the exterior and interior are pretty unusual.
Wall Drug.
Don’t be fooled. It is absolutely not worth stopping for.
Jungle Jims. Massive international food store. Takes several hours to fully explore and see everything.
That’s hilarious. Jungle Jim’s was the name of a kiddie play-place with indoor rides and arcade games. Before reading your second sentence, I was like, “there was a store there???”
Funny, they do have some superficial marketing of it as an amusement park. For instance, it’s on those highest signs, as an “attraction”.
That sounds amazing.
Im kinda underselling it tbh. Animatronics, full size vehicles (the hot sauce aisle goes underneath a firetruck), large live fish tanks in the seafood area (sometimes theyve got a shark on ice) many weird things.
Lazar’s Bazar in Eugene Oregon is pretty high up there. Need a Velcro Hulk Hogan wallet from the 80s? Got it. How about some throwing stars? Got it. Weird tshirts? Got it. Vintage posters? Got it. A salad shooter? Got it. You name it, he probably has it.
Ax-Man Surplus in the Twin Cities! They’ve got everything from graduated cylinders to clown dolls to golf club heads. They’ve also got a giant bobble head jesus and an iron lung that aren’t for sale, they just display them in store because they’re cool. They even go through the effort of hand-writing labels for each item, like this:
They also play weird novelty in-store songs like They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Looks like American Science And Surplus in Chicago/Milwaukee! Love those kind of stores
