3888 Best Places to Shop in USA

Located along a block of converted warehouse buildings just north of Pioneer Park, this stylish lifestyle boutique represents more than 30 local makers. You'll discover an extensive selection of ceramics, kitchen and bath accessories, planters, jewelry, and body-care products. 

An institution in the Pioneer Valley, this market sells produce, baked goods, and specialty foods—try a cider doughnut to sample the best of all three.

A mixed-use development and outdoor mall, Atlantic Station covers about 10 square blocks, clustered around a green space known as Central Park. Retailers include IKEA, the Dillard's department store, Banana Republic, and H&M. It's easy to reach by car but is also accessible by free shuttle buses from the Arts Center MARTA station. An on-site concierge is happy to help you find your way around or to make dinner reservations for you at the more than a dozen restaurants here.

Atomic Books specializes in obscure titles and small-press publications, including independent comics and 'zines, along with videos. There's also a formidable selection of pop-culture toys such as lunch boxes, cookie jars, and stickers.

Gadgets and home accessories with a sleek modern design are imported from all over Europe and Japan and sold at this charming store in a courtyard off Union Street. Among the eye-catching items are a Mies cuckoo clock and a wine rack made of leather loops.

This friendly women's clothing shop is filled with racks of designer threads and has frequent sales.

This dreamy cottage of French and English delights has richly scented soaps, vintage and new linens, antique enamelware, collectible plates, and decorative accessories.

Explore Anthropologie, have an authentic Persian meal at Rumi’s Kitchen, then indulge in dessert from Cafe Intermezzo at this outdoor mall. This 86-acre community with apartments and a hotel nearby is in the heart of Alpharetta. It features more than 500,000 square feet of retail for hours of shopping, including a 12-screen movie theater—and it's entirely walkable.

Avenue Antiques is a collection of multiple dealers, selling antiques from Victorian to mid-century modern.

This renovated train terminal houses an upscale, indoor shopping mall with several dozen shops and restaurants as well as an 11-screen movie theater. It's a beautiful space, with a glass-dome ceiling, marble staircases, and brass storefronts. The complex is part of Terminal Tower; the 52-story tower, which opened in 1930, was the second tallest building in the world (after New York's Empire State Building) until 1967.

Step back into the 1970s at this California-based retro fashion palace with styles for men, women, and children. Hoodies and sweatpants with throwback stripes or smiley faces will make you feel groovy, man.

They don’t make shops like this University City mainstay anymore. An international newsstand, stuffed with foreign periodicals, newspapers, postcards, and hip art publications, they also run a café of sorts, offering coffee, tea, and chocolate, and an old-school smoke shop selling specialty tobacco products. The patio seating is small—enjoy your paper and espresso with a little people-watching and feel like a displaced revolutionary or European or both.

Spread across two complexes on either side of South Kihei Road, this no-frills shopping center is in the heart of Kihei. The mall has more than 50 stores, including a scuba shop for rentals and dive bookings. It also has a gas station, several great takeout and dine-in restaurants, a coffee shop, a post office, and ample free parking.

A short drive from downtown and operating for more than two decades, the oldest and largest weekend-only flea market on the Treasure Coast has a street-bazaar feel, with shoppers happily scouting the 500 vendors for the practical and unusual. A produce market carries local tropical fruits and vegetables. If you have an open mind and love to shop garage sales, you'll do just fine here.

You'll pass this cactus farm en route to Saguaro National Park East. There's a huge selection of cacti and succulents, and they'll ship anywhere in the country.

Just about all your sporting-goods needs can be met here.

Sure you can shop online for sex toys for maximum anonymity, but if you want to see and touch the goodies IRL before you purchase, this is the place to go. The staff is friendly and helpful, but not in a way that’ll make you uncomfortable, and there are plenty of lubes and dress-up clothes as well.

This store is crowded with all manner of stylish clothing and accessories for babies, kids, and tweens and many special gift items. You'll find yourself "#happy" (as one of their kiddie tees reads), especially if you follow the big hopscotch board around back to their ice cream shop.

This cozy space in an old, creaky-floored adobe is stocked with perhaps the finest handmade cowboy boots you will ever see—in every color, style, and embellishment imaginable. If you can't find what you're looking for, they create custom boots too. Other finds, like funky ranch-style furniture, 1950s blanket coats, jewelry, and belt buckles are also sold here.

A Main Street treasure, this comprehensive shop features books on the American West, environmental studies, Native American cultures, water issues, and western history, as well as rare antiquarian books on the Southwest. There's also a nice nook for kids.

One of the country's top outdoor-equipment retailers, Backcountry has a flagship store in West Valley City that comprises a small showroom and massive (200,000-square-foot) back room where you can shop or pick up products you've ordered online. Skiers, boarders, campers, and climbers all favor this place.

A highlight among the several galleries in Florence's Old Town, this co-op features the diverse works of more than 30 esteemed creatives living and working throughout the area and working in a variety of media.

You'll find everything for the bird lover here, including bird feeders, birdhouses, a huge supply of bird seed, and colorful bird-theme gifts ranging from wind chimes to stuffed animals. There are several other locations in the Portland metro area.

An eclectic independent shop in downtown Santa Cruz, Bad Animal has shelves packed with rare and used books, mostly representing the humanities: literature, philosophy, and theology, among them the favorite picks of the owner, a friend of famed poet Lawrence Ferlenghetti who earned a PhD in the History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz.

Where to start your shopping adventure? This cluster of spruced-up shops, restaurants, and vendors is responsible for the restoration of the colorful historic district where Bahamians settled in the 19th century. The village lies roughly between Whitehead and Fort Streets and Angela and Catherine Streets. Hemingway frequented the bars, restaurants, and boxing rings in this part of town.

This shop is owned and run by the knowledgeable Mark Bahti, whose father, Tom, literally wrote the book on Native American art, including an early definitive work on katsinas. The store sells high-quality jewelry, pottery, rugs, art, and more.

Vintage aloha shirts are the specialty at this kitschy store. Don't expect to find bargains, but rather unique designs you aren't likely to find elsewhere. Some shirts cost several hundred dollars. Thousands of them are used; others are creations by top designers. The tight space and musty smell are part of the thrift-shop atmosphere. Antiques hunters can also buy old-fashioned postcards, glassware, Hawaiian LPs, authentic military clothing, funky hats, and denim jeans from the 1950s.

This modern gallery, founded in 1994, helped establish Aspen as a destination for collectors and art buyers. The iconic gallery specializes in contemporary art and is a must for art lovers on a visit to Aspen.

In the countryside 2 miles south of downtown West Chester, this book lover's refuge in a large converted, five-story 1822 barn has nooks and crannies filled with more than 300,000 used and rare books on almost every subject, along with vintage maps and prints.

The highly stylish Italian fashion house brings an architectural approach to men's and women's ready-to-wear fashions, handbags, and accessories—especially shoes. Additional locations are at The Shops at Crystals and Wynn.