3843 Best Places to Shop in USA

Come here for top-of-the-line surfboards and the latest in California beachwear, sandals, and accessories.

Bride-and-groom ears are among the most recognizable fashion statements you'll see here, but they represent just a fraction of the inventory. Shelves are stacked with every shape and style: broad-brimmed sun hats, jaunty Panama hats, 1960s-style porkpie hats, brightly colored fascinators, Indiana Jones–inspired fedoras, and a few dozen others to top off your trip.

Books and videos are the primary offering here, with more than 400 titles on Ancestral Pueblo and Southwestern topics. You can also find a selection of touristy T-shirts and hats. Hours vary throughout the year.

This is the South's oldest independent feminist bookstore.

You'll find designer clothing, upscale cookware, kitchen gadgets, and footwear at this store that's been selling to Katonah locals since 1924. The salesperson-to-customer ratio is high, so expect some old-fashioned service.

The museum contains the world's most comprehensive collection of Tiffany stained glass, drawings, paintings, jewelry, pottery, and other objets d'art—so naturally shoppers come here for the representations of Tiffany glass, silk scarves with stained-glass motifs, and fine-art glass that Louis Comfort himself would have treasured. There are also many objects from world museum gift collections and a wide assortment of books about the Arts and Crafts movement.

The signature stretchy, earth-toned linen wedges helped to put this local shop on the map, and their offerings now include sandals, flats, and boots, all of which transition seamlessly from a casual backyard hangout to a elegant dinner. There's a second downtown location inside the City Market.

This is the spot for local produce, eggs, plants, and crafts. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Browse an excellent selection of hand-picked vintage and small-batch designer goods at this oh-so-charming East 11th Street boutique. You'll find plenty of Stevie Nicks–worthy caftans, rare couture gems, and a curio cabinet full of eccentric jewelry and statement pieces. An assortment of "apothecary" items, from face and body oils to incense and crystals, lend to its overall hippy-witchy aesthetic.

Nuts of every imaginable variety are stocked in huge quantities in this little downtown shop.

The fancy furniture, lighting fixtures, and objets d'art at this upscale shop make it a dangerous place to enter: within minutes you may find yourself reconsidering your entire home's aesthetic. The owner's keen eye for French style makes a visit here a pleasure.

This well-stocked independent shop is a favorite of many locals.

This public gallery at Providence's private Wheeler School exhibits works from Rhode Island's extensive population of local artists, including past and current attendees of the nearby Rhode Island School of Design. Attached to Wheeler's library, the gallery features winners from about a half-dozen juried art shows it sponsors annually, in a variety of media.

This family-run business boasts the largest walk-in refrigerator of cheese and cured meat in Colorado. With more than 350 types of cheese, it's no doubt the best place in the state to stock up on all things cheese. Be sure to also check out the massive selection of imported kitchen and household items as well as perfumes.

Sure, these days you can go to any ol' grocery store and find excellent cheeses, but you'll never find (or learn) what you will at this neighborhood favorite, which is essentially an interactive ode to incredible cheeses and wines. Oh, and the charcuterie, pasta, condiments, and breads are amazing, too.

Pick up a snack or the makings of a picnic at this lively basement-level cheese shop that stocks both domestic and imported cheeses, along with German sausages, other meats, and all the accoutrements for a picture-perfect charcuterie board. There's also a shop at the Pybus Market in Wenatchee.

While you're in a western-state of mind, mosey over to Cheif Records for country tunes from the likes of Gene Autry, Lefty Frizzell, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Wills, and of course Ernest Tubbs.

This men's clothes shop traffics in a mishmash of garb, harkening back to the days when the neighborhood was filled with shops like this that catered mostly to gay men. The racks are loaded with everything from designer jackets to cardigans to party shorts to sexy jockstraps.

In a pleasant, predominantly residential neighborhood 2 miles from downtown, the Cherry Creek shopping district has retail blocks and an enclosed mall.

Just north of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center is Cherry Creek North, an open-air development of tree-lined streets and shady plazas with art galleries, specialty shops, and fashionable restaurants.

At Milwaukee Street, the granite-and-glass behemoth Cherry Creek Shopping Center holds some of the nation's top retailers. Its more than 160 stores include Free People, Burberry, H&M, Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton, Neiman Marcus, and Macy's.

Cheshire Union Gift Shop & Antique Center, 5 mi south of Canandaigua, occupies a 1915 schoolhouse with tin ceilings and black-and-white photos of former students on the walls. A deli and grocery store are downstairs; antiques and a wide selection of gifts fill the former classrooms upstairs.

Across from Mazza Gallerie is the newer, similarly upmarket Chevy Chase Pavilion. Its women's clothing stores range from Alpaca International to JCrew and Stein Mart.

The Children's Bookstore is a cozy, well-stocked resource for current and classic children's literature.

The large selection of works for sale in this gallery, established in 1937, includes paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture from the 1500s to the present. For a special memento with more weight than a Red Sox hat, pick out a piece from the gallery's impressive collection of Boston expressionism and Boston School impressionism art.

This local artists' cooperative exhibits and sells crafts, jewelry, and fine art.

This 180,000-square-foot open-air mall and cultural center is occupied by 35 Asian-owned businesses (mainly Chinese and Vietnamese), including restaurants, nail salons, bakeries, boba tea shops, and retail outlets selling clothing and jewelry. The cornerstone here is the MT (My Thanh) Supermarket, the largest international grocery store in Texas, which stocks all manner of Asian foods and related items. Dining standouts include First Chinese BBQ and Pho Saigon Noodle House. Though a bit short on atmosphere, eateries deliver well-prepared, simply presented lunch plates and noodle-based soups at easy-to-digest prices. The center is open daily, but some stores close one day a week.

This family-run shop has been selling bright, fun-shaped kites—dragons, butterflies, sharks—since the 1960s. There's a lot more than kites, too, with feng shui items, art tiles, and even iPhone cases that can go home as local souvenirs.