8 Best Shopping in Nashville, Tennessee

Antique Archaeology

Marathon Village

Fans of the History Channel's American Pickers series will want to check out Mike Wolfe's store in Marathon Village. All of the quirky items—signage, furniture and random finds—were personally selected or approved by Wolfe.

Carpe Diem

This small but mighty record store offers an impressive collection of vintage vinyls, antique doodads, and art. Run by the same folks as Kimbro’s Pickin’ Parlor next door, it definitely has a similar vibe: curated junk, gritty rock and roll, and down-home family lovin’.

Cool Stuff Weird Things

Sylvan Park
This flea-market-style space selling salvaged items, vintage finds, and oddities lives up to its name. The friendly and unassuming environment is great for shoppers who live to dig for treasure. Take home one of their rustic, metal, lighted Nashville signs as a souvenir.

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Gas Lamp Antiques

Berry Hill

Gas Lamp Antiques features vendor booths that stock furniture, vintage jewelry, and pop culture memorabilia. More items are available at the nearby Gas Lamp, Too (128 Powell Place).

Landmark Booksellers

There are so many rows of bookshelves filling out this snug bookstore, you’ll feel like you’re burrowing through tunnels of leather-bound volumes. Landmark Booksellers specializes in old, out-of-print, and rare books, but they have some new books, as well. You’ll find plenty of Southern Americana here, and books that focus on regional history, culture, and literature. And all 35,000 books are nestled inside the oldest standing commercial building in Franklin (built in 1808). It’s a bibliophile’s dream.

Rare Prints Gallery

For rare botanical prints, vintage maps, and lithographs dating back to the 1500s, Rare Prints Gallery is second to none. Don’t be too intimidated by the art-gallery-meets-museum air of the place. From medieval lynx prints to Vanity Fair covers from 1871, they have something for every price range.

The Factory at Franklin

You'll find boutiques, antiques, restaurants, a guitar shop, and a theater in this airy brick complex of late 1920s-era buildings. Once home to a stoveworks, it's now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.