110 Best Places to Shop in Texas, USA

At Laverty's, find all manner of antiques, collectible furniture, books, linens, hardware, and more.

Perhaps Austin's top outlet for quality and unusual Mexican art and crafts, Mi Casa goes far beyond your usual Mexican-imports souvenir shop. You'll find contemporary paintings and sculptures, painted furniture, religious art, ceramics, and much more. It's a great place to go for gifts for folks back home.

Make yourself at home in this South Austin shop. Like many spots around town, design is central to this home goods store. There’s a heavy influence from independent artisans and designers who have created much of the stock, like one-of-a-kind furniture, wooden dolls, patterned trays, and inspired paper goods. The store holds special events with local makers, who teach classes on their respective crafts. Depending on the day, you could learn about anything from perfume blending to mastering the art of feng shui.

Stylish women's wear is just the beginning here. Niche carries an impressive collection of handbags, hats, loungewear, scarves, and bandanas as well as kids' clothing, swimwear, and blankets. For the home, pick up glassware, dish towels, home fragrances, cards, gifts, and tea-time items. The coolest part of the store is Stitch at Niche, a curated fabric shop and project space, where you can buy striking textiles by the yard, unique buttons and trims, and DIY kits for embroidery, tapestry weaving, and cross-stitch. 

When most women fantasize about the wardrobe of their dreams, it looks something like the inside of this East Austin boutique. Brightly printed vintage finds complement cool-girl-approved staples, with more than a few standouts in stock. You’ll also find well-known designers like Anna Rifle Bond’s paper products to pen a letter home, chic Province Apothecary lip balm, and geometric necklaces and bracelets galore.

Calling all sports fans: this Austin lifestyle brand is reinventing workout gear. Somewhere between Nike's high-performing, sweat-wicking staples and your favorite broken-in cotton T-shirt or bottoms, the Outdoor Voices gear is wearable and fashionable without being overly sporty. You’ll find sweats, hoodies, and tanks that have movement and are perfect for a hike on the Greenbelt, an afternoon spent at Zilker Park, or an evening perched around a fire.

On South Congress Avenue, in the epicenter of Austin’s weird culture, this nondiscreet store offers tokens of the city from local designers. Yes, you'll find typical souvenirs like Texas-branded tees and tote bags, but then you’ll discover the rest of the store. Local artists design everything from the huge collection of screen-printed gig posters to the fabulous leather goods; the variety is incredible. Whatever the type of souvenir or handcrafted artisan creation you're looking to take from the capital city, this is the place to get it.

Just like its Austin flagship, the Fredericksburg location of this shop showcases hip men's and women's clothing, shoes, and accessories.

Custom-made and original iron pieces of high-end home furnishings are found at Phil Jackson's Granite & Iron Store.

If it's made of ceramic, you'll find it here—whether it's a calavera (skull), a chili pepper, an armadillo, or a pot of just about any size. You'll also find fountains, benches, and plenty of whimsical metal yard art.

In the 2nd Street shopping district, Prize has branded itself as “an urban department store” where you’ll find women's clothing and menswear, ultra-modern furniture, and super-chic coffee table books. Although you likely wouldn’t trade a trip to Prize for one to, say, Texas-grown Neiman Marcus for basics, the store has boutique-like finds that, we'll say it, take the prize.

You'll find vintage and modern pieces here from Texas, Mexico, and all over the world. Owners Ginger and Mario Diaz opened Rancho Diaz as an eclectic, artisan-inspired home decor store with unique handcrafted items for design enthusiasts. Categories include terra-cotta planters and vases, upscale pet items, Christmas and Day of the Dead decor, and greeting and note cards. An exciting aspect of the store is that it carries the Tex Mex Dance Party Collection, curated and collected by former folk arts administrator and native Texan Rose Reyes. Her home decor brand focuses on vintage handmade objects and art with a Texas/Mexican flair.

Red is just the place for contemporary furniture and home accents as well as funky gifts and jewelry.

Duck into the River House for an inspiring selection of home accessories.

Austin runners frequent this shop as much for its selection of everything from Asics to Adidas shoes as for the expert advice on which pair to pick. Starting out as a training program back in 2004, Rogue opened a storefront after rousing success and today has two other Austin training centers and another in Cedar Park. Runners can join clubs to train for anything from a 5K to a full marathon, or just join a free community-run with other local runners. The store has a full fuel bar serving smoothies and even beer and wine, along with the hydration and energy snacks you’ll need to hit the happy trails.

This boutique features a well-curated collection of Western-inspired clothing, accessories, hats, boots, and gifts.

Root has a little something for everyone's fashion tastes.

The sprawling mall on the north side of Center Point Road is host to such fashionable shops as Crate & Barrel, J. Crew, Pottery Barn, Giorgio Armani, and Gucci. The better part of a day can be spent strolling through the more than 130 stores.

Sharp dressers take note: some of the coolest guys’ clothes and grooming products around are on display within the industrial-chic walls of Service. The open space has been designed to fit racks of tailored blue blazers, graphic tees, selvedge denim, and designer footwear and cases of rock-star Ray-Ban and Super sunglasses. If you find yourself without the right thing to wear on your travels to Austin, this is the place to fix that.

Upscale boutiques, especially in tony neighborhoods like Alamo Heights, can be intimidating, but there's no such vibe in this jewel of a find in the Uptown Alamo Heights Center. It's cozy space, but the multicategory store is comfortably filled with a wide variety of designer offerings in women's high-end fashion, perfumes, limited edition books, greeting cards, home accessories, gifts, and antiques. The fine artisan jewelry is irresistible—whatever you choose for that perfect gift, you will absolutely want one for yourself. Everything is beautifully displayed, and customer service is attentive and helpful.

For guys who like that American-made look, search no further than this upscale boutique. Start with a pair of good-fitting denim—STAG stocks brands like imogene + willie and RRL—then move on to a flannel shirt, which come in endless color combinations here. Finish with a cool pair of Red Wing boots and accessorize from a selection of watches, wallets, and belts galore. Best yet? Once you’re dressed, Home Slice is next door, so you can grab some pizza on your way out. They really did think of everything.

The Strand is the best place to shop in Galveston. Old storefronts are filled with gift shops, antiques stores, and one-of-a-kind boutiques.

This small roadside peach stand is continually working with state and national horticulturists and scientists to improve production. They carry more than 30 peach varietals throughout the year, including their own. It's cash-only, so be sure to bring some along.

Previously known as Sunset Ridge Home and Hardware, the name Sunset & Co. may be new, but it's the same wonderful place to browse to your heart's content. The store seems endless, brimming as it is with gifts and accessories for him and her, jewelry, bath and body products, men's hats, travel bags, clothing and accessories for babies and kids, and more. There's plenty for the home and kitchen, too, as well as hardware and outdoor items, like Weber grills, grilling accessories, coolers, and tool sets. They also offer services for glass-cutting, key-cutting, Miele vacuum repair, screen repair, paint color matching, and custom monogramming.

It’s not that you’ll find anything out of the ordinary at this east Austin boutique, it’s just that everything you find will be extraordinary. Take the kitchen wares, for instance, like porcelain mugs from Japan beside the shop’s artisanal wooden serving tools. Knickknacks from across the country, such as wooden toys and mobiles, blend impossibly well with vintage items, almost as though they were curated to live in the gallery-worthy space. The store has a beautiful assortment of hand-pressed cards by artists if you’d like to write home.

On the southern side of Center Point Road, more than 100 stores, from Old Navy to Le Creuset kitchen store, await.

Tehuacana Creek Vineyards produces and sells blush, red, white, glogg, and port wines on the banks of the Tehuacana ("To-walk-in-a-creek") River just east of Waco, and also hosts tours and tastings.

This is one of those stores you visit when you can't seem to find the right gift. As part of a network of over 390 U.S. retail outlets, they showcase unique, fair-trade products from more than 130 artisan groups in about 38 countries. Their selection is staggering, and the categories seem endless: accessories, jewelry, indoor and outdoor home decor, textiles, baskets, stationery, drinkware, tabletop, linens, birdhouses, garden, bath and body, and gifts for everyone from the wellness guru to the foodie.

Make-believe has never seemed as real as it does in this hometown toy store. Imaginations ignite amid shelves of dump trucks and rainbow-bright kites, pretty pink castles and music sets, and an unreal amount of children’s books. Nostalgic adults will love the selection of novelty candy: Razzles, Smarties, and Pop Rocks instantly bring to mind sunny summer childhood days. The staff is full of kids at heart, who are helpful and knowledgeable about the store’s inventory and who are always ready to make suggestions or, if you twist their arm, play for a while.

This former 1940s Ford dealership is filled with a mix of architectural, industrial, repurposed, and vintage art and collectibles, and there's even a coffeeshop with drinks and snacks so you can make a whole day of treasure hunting. The main building, filled with unique and well-curated antiques, is only the beginning at the 8th Street Market—there are also little houses in the back packed with still more.