11 Best Shopping in Frederick and Western Maryland, Maryland

Many shops line Second and Alder streets. is packed with elegant rugs, stained glass, and all manner of furniture. Call for hours.

Cross a magician's workshop with a child's daydream and you'd get something like where you can find tooth-fairy boxes, a bowling set with bunny-shaped pins, musical stacking boxes, and paintings with secret doors that open into mirrors.

Housed inside a former pharmacy, features dozens of vendors selling everything from hand-stitched quilts to glassware, handcrafted toys, and furniture. The best antique to be found here is in the back—the shop's original soda fountain, Dottie's Fountain and Grill (open daily). Diners sit at pale-green stools around a wave-shaped counter and drink old-fashioned thick milk shakes while enjoying buckwheat pancakes and sausages, or hamburgers—all of which cost less than $4—just as they have for the past 40 years.

is a complex of former factories turned into artsy shops and galleries.

open daily, is a bargain hunter's bonanza. The hundreds of stores featuring apparel, footwear, and more include Banana Republic, BCBG, Puma, kate spade, Coach, and Ralph Lauren.

Bring home a punchy-patterned pillow or sinuously shaped salt shaker from

Yummy-smelling soaps are handmade on the premises at Fragrances include spicy Japanese Dusk, sweet O Honey Fairest, and Frederick—a fresh woodsy scent.

Wanna deck out your home like a Victorian B&B? Then visit for lacy linens, sweet tea-scented soaps, and ornate silver lockets.

The trendier set head toward for jeans from Chip & Pepper, and cute hoodies and tees from Volcom and Obey.

Browsing the hundreds of thousands of books that crowd the shelves of is rather like walking through the physical equivalent of an online used-book clearinghouse: a true bibliophile's dream.

open Monday through Saturday, began as a butcher shop on a Mennonite family farm in 1947. Today the market sells breads, cookies, pies, and pastries baked on the premises. There's also a nice selection of bulk groceries, local food products, meats, and homemade jams and jellies. A Mennonite kitchen serves a limited menu.