3888 Best Places to Shop in USA

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.

Featuring contemporary art and crafts made by Alaskans, this is the go-to stop for gifts, a touch of Alaska, and an education. The high-ceiling, spacious gallery was constructed out of repurposed historic railroad timber. Be sure to give yourself enough time to browse as there is a lot to see.

This island favorite, with a coffee bar and a couple of cozy seats with panoramic views of the water, specializes in literary fiction and nautical literature.

Along with selling bikes and accessories, this community-oriented shop rents bikes and offers reasonably priced repairs. Bikes come with locks and safety reflectors, and part of rental proceeds go toward a nonprofit for affordable housing. Bikes are first come, first served and there are no reservations.

This amazingly curated boutique specializes in the two things essential to every fashionable home: mid-century furniture and beautiful plants. The offerings here are more vintage than antique—couches, chairs, lamps, tables, and other one-of-a-kind statement pieces from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, all perfectly preserved and irresistibly cool. There are some new items for sale, too, all of which are ethically produced (either American made or, if they’re imported, fair trade). And yes—for any literary buffs who were wondering, the name is in fact a reference to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

New and used books focus on local history, the arts, modern fiction, and out-of-print works, including a fine selection of antiquarian books and obscure titles.

At Dave Hodges Fine Art, you'll find bronze sculptures of horses, wildlife, and cowboys by this internationally known artist. Western-theme paintings and Navajo weavings also are displayed.

You can get most anything you may need here for your travels, including some of the best cappuccino and Colombian coffee in town. The store is also the heartbeat of the local community, where everyone gossips, discusses local politics, and swaps info on the best hiking and adventure spots.

Soak in the Balinese beauty of this gallery-like store where North County’s wealthy come to shop for Indonesian art, wooden furniture, clothing, jewelry, pottery, antiques, artifacts, live-edge slabs, and other international imports.

Historic Native American art and regional paintings, particularly Santa Fe modernists, are David Cook's specialty.

Although furs may not be to everyone's taste or ethics, a number of Alaska fur companies have stores and showrooms in Anchorage. One of the city's largest and best-known furriers is David Green Master Furrier, whose family has been in the fur business in Alaska since 1922.

The radiant photography of artist David J. West captures Zion's natural setting in its full grandeur, along with Bryce, Cedar Breaks, Arches, and other stunning spots throughout Utah and the Southwest. The gallery also stocks contemporary landscape paintings and geologically inspired pottery.

Few things have made a bigger comeback in recent years than vinyl records. Daybreak Records, a small, stylishly outfitted shop with a roll-up door for warm days, stocks a great, varied selection of mint used vinyl, including deep-catalog albums, plus a lot of 45s. Local audiophiles adore this place.

Spanning 18,000 square feet, this farmers market has homemade baked goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, plus butter churns and ceramic speckle ware made by the local Mennonites. Don't be surprised to see locals trotting by in their horse-and-buggy. It's a good place to mingle with the craftspeople, as well as with students from James Madison University in nearby Harrisonburg. It's open Thursday through Saturday from 9 to 6.

One of the largest flea markets in the South draws residents from all over the state as well as visitors. It's open weekends, including Friday, from 9 to 5.

Looking for a longer-lasting souvenir than T-shirts and baseball caps? Then visit one of the artists at Dead Ahead Tattoo Co., one of the pioneer studios in Nashville’s budding tattoo tourism industry. Clients have traveled from as far as Canada for new ink.

Paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and works in other media by southern New England artists are this gallery's specialty.

The owner and staff of this haute couture boutique work with top stylists and celebrities, as well as Hollywood studios and major fashion publications around the world. Decades Two resells contemporary designer and couture clothing and accessories.

Wine geeks love the retail choices and the exciting offerings poured at this hybrid wine store–bar. This is the place to ask questions about quieter regions and rarely seen grapes—the co-owners are gifted sommeliers and love to share their passion with guests. The shop puts together some of the greatest cheese, charcuterie, and tinned fish boards in town.

The edgiest clothing boutique on the Hill, December Thieves stocks fashion-forward, contemporary, emerging designers and brands from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other places across the globe. Find a curated and wildly fun array of apparel, scarves, handbags, jewelry, beauty products, and home decor. 

One of the first retail stores to reinvigorate downtown Raleigh in 2012, Deco moved to bigger digs a few years ago, all the better to fit items from more than 100 local and independent artists and designers. The place for funky souvenirs and gifts like Krispy Kreme collage art or Holly Aiken leather bags, Deco even has an exclusive line of Carolina Hurricane–themed products.

Find country fabrics in Deer Country Quilts, as well as thousands of bolts of flannels, batiks, and cotton in the store's lovely log lodge studio. Ask about receptions for quilters and the classes they offer all year long.

This nonprofit gallery, fondly referred to as DIAA, comprises works from local artists with rotating exhibits every two weeks during the summer months.

Hawaiiana of all kinds, old and new (as the name suggests) is showcased in this clean, tiny antique shop. They carry vintage aloha shirts and clothing, vinyl LPs, jewelry, posters, toys, and more. You're bound to find an easily packable, special souvenir to take home. The owner is fun to talk with because he is so honest about his collections and what you are getting if you buy something.

This family operation has a great assortment of branded surf wear and clothes for outdoors fanatics, including tank tops, caps, swimwear, footwear, and Kauai-style T-shirts. They also carry sunglasses, bodyboards, and water-sports accessories, as well as Hawaii-style gifts.

Developed in 1989 by Del Mar residents Ivan Gayler and David Winkler, this plaza is worth a side trip if you're visiting the racetrack. Along with its collection of high-end shops, the tiered plaza contains outstanding restaurants and fountain courtyards with Pacific views. Some businesses validate parking, which is underground.

This shop specializes in Mexican folk art, jewelry, and Southwest-style clothing.

This three-story, open-air retail and entertainment complex in downtown Denver houses national chain stores like Sephora, H&M, GNC, and PacSun. There are also restaurants, including Denver's Hard Rock Cafe, and a 15-screen movie theater, the UA Denver Pavilions. Don't expect distinctive local flavor, but it's a practical complement to Larimer Square a few blocks away.

Anyone who loves to cook will enjoy browsing this well-equipped Fredericksburg mainstay which, after decades in town, has recently moved to the beautiful old historic stone Keidel Memorial Hospital building. It offers a high-quality selection, with stock that ranges from coffee and tea to cookware and cutlery. And, in a fun twist of fate, the owner is the daughter of a doctor who practiced medicine here until the 1990s.

Although you can buy wines and beer steins in the Germany pavilion, they don't provide the warm, fuzzy feelings that the teddy bears on display here do. Bears (or "bärs") share the boutique with Rapunzel and Snow White snow globes and plush toys, Minnie dolls and figurines, and German confections.