276 Best Places to Shop in USA

This well-established gallery showcases artwork that captures the beauty of Maine, including Dana Heacock's brightly colored giclèe prints, cards, and Abacus calendars. Well-executed, often entertaining home-decor items and delicate or statement pieces of jewelry also make excellent souvenirs of your visit to Boothbay Harbor.

The Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc., a collective of Berkeley artists and artisans, has been a stalwart gallery and store showcasing ceramics, textiles, paintings, photography, jewelry, and various media since 1957. Explore the amazing range of local talent in a well-lit historic space, and find truly one-of-a-kind gems to take home. The gallery also hosts special events featuring artists explaining their works.

Among Southeast's countless gift shops, this one is truly worth checking out. The local owners have curated an intriguing selection of art from around the region, including uncommon, limited collections you won't find elsewhere. Ampersand's selection includes jewelry, original paintings and mixed-media works, prints, and ceramics.

At this salon-inspired gallery, relax on antique furniture while gazing at framed paintings, mostly of island and coastal Maine scenes, that fill the dark walls. Opened in 1996 and representing approximately 30 artists of national renown who live, summer, or paint on Mount Desert Island, works range from $500–$10,000. The owner's background is in art history, and she warmly welcomes even those who are "just looking" and shares her art knowledge, especially the stories of painters who've been drawn to the island since the 1800s.

The biggest and arguably the best art gallery in town has changing exhibits of regional sculpture, paintings, fine crafts, and photographs.

You'll find an incredible collection of fine Spanish Colonial, Mexican, and Indigenous paintings, textiles, carvings, ceramics, sculptures, and furnishings in this rambling gallery, but part of the fun of visiting is just walking through this grand, rambling historic compound in Abiquiú's unpaved village center. It consists of a large old home, a 5,000-square-foot former mercantile, and lush gardens enclosed within massive adobe walls.

Bunnell occupies the first floor of an old trading post. They showcase innovative Alaskan-made contemporary art, and host workshops, lectures, musical performances, and other community events.

You don't have to pay admission to enter this part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the museum shop where you can buy ceramics, glasswork, decorative pieces, books, scarves, and jewelry by southern artists. The museum itself is filled with contemporary and folk paintings, mixed-media artworks, photography, and sculpture.  Live music and after-hours events are held on Thursday.

The Trujillo family weaving tradition, which started in northern New Mexico more than seven generations ago, is carried out in this colorful, inviting gallery. Irvin Trujillo and his wife, Lisa, are both gifted, renowned master weavers, creating Rio Grande–style tapestry blankets and rugs, many of them with natural dyes that authentically replicate early weavings. Most designs are historically based, but the Trujillos are never shy about innovating and their original works are as breathtaking as the traditional ones.

A lovely stop as you begin a drive down scenic Chuckanut Drive, this sprawling space showcases works in all media by more than 400 artisans, including contemporary art glass and furniture and housewares crafted from local materials. Stroll through the lush sculpture garden to see the array of colorful works for yards and patios. 

Owned by renowned Santa Fe chocolatier Hayward Simoneaux, this bright and colorful shop specializes in folk art and carries wonderfully offbeat and eye-catching items from all over the world and at a wide range of price points. Think Spanish-colonial-style leather messenger bags, hand-painted wild boar ceramic piggy banks, Mexican paper-mâché eggs painted to look like lucha libre masks, and hand-embroidered reversible jackets from India. And yes, you'll also find some carefully curated chocolates for sale.

This exceptional gallery specializes in vintage, classic, and contemporary photography but also represents artists in other media.

The ladies running Gallery B are gregarious and knowledgeable about the work showcased here, including paintings and sculptures by regional and local creatives, so walk in expecting a deluge of inspiration and conversation.

A collaboration between a local artist and a Danish-born curator, this gallery presents changing exhibits of jewelry, sculpture, and objets d'art.

In a restored 1800s farmhouse in the center of town, this gallery showcases exceptional paintings and sculptures from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The focus is on artists inspired by Maine's beauty, especially those who have painted on Monhegan Island. Among those represented are Rockwell Kent, James Fitzgerald, Andrew Winter, Carroll Thayer Berry, and Charles Woodbury. Contemporary artists include Andrea J. Peters, Kevin Beers, and Henry Isaacs.

If you're looking for statement jewelry or just want to admire wearable art, add Jewelers' Werk Galerie to your list. Owner Ellen Reiben personally curates an eclectic collection made by artists from around the globe. 

Expect the unexpected in wildlife art, where fish, sea turtles, and other creatures are depicted with utmost creativity and touches of whimsy. If you're looking for souvenirs above and beyond the usual, or unique jewelry, paintings, sculptures, and pottery—this is the place.

C.J. Kale is an accomplished, award-winning photographer famous for capturing extraordinary images of lava flowing through the curl of a wave. Not a believer in using any photo manipulation or special effects, Kale produces work that is as authentic as it gets. He and gallery partners Linda and Don Hurzeler showcase their fine images of the beauty of Hawaii and other scenic places around the world.

WREN (the Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network) has been a vital force in little Bethlehem's steady growth into a center of more than 120 artists, craftspeople, and other business owners. At WREN's headquarters, there's an outstanding gallery that presents monthly juried exhibits and a retail gift boutique, Local Works, featuring crafts, foods, books, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

One of the island's only artist cooperatives, Maui Crafts Guild is crammed with treasures. Resident artists produce lead-glazed pottery, basketry, glass and feather art, photography, and woodwork pieces. One artist even creates gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish rubbing, resulting in stunningly vibrant pieces. The prices are surprisingly low, making this a great place to find gifts and one-of-a-kind items to take home.

This gallery shows pieces by more than 300 local artists, including exquisite woodwork, lovely ceramics, authentic Niihau shell lei, wave metal etchings, and whimsical clay figures. There are also locations in Makawao and at the Shops at Wailea, and all three galleries feature unique Artists in Residence programs that connect the public to artists during monthly "talk story” sessions.

This intimate space focuses on the prolific work of world-renowned, award-winning contemporary Native American artist Dan Namingha whose celebrated paintings and sculptures are part of exclusive collections all around the world. His sons Arlo and Michael are also artists working in bronze, wood, and stone as well as digital imagery. The family founded the Namingha Institute to help instruct and guide new generations of Indigenous artists.

Stop by this cooperative gallery to see impressive displays of pottery, sculpture, jewelry, art glass, paintings, and quilts by resident artists, including an upstairs gallery devoted to original paintings by well-known Northwest landscape artist James Hardman. You'll find gifts in a wide price range at this wonderful space.

An anchor in downtown Belfast, this two-decade-old gallery showcases the work of a super-talented family: luminescent paintings by Joanne Parent and masterful, mostly black-and-white or sepia photographs of the Maine Coast and its fishing vessels and traditional windjammers by Neal Parent. These are complemented by the work of a handful of other talented artists.

The highly respected, longest-running gallery in Utah features three floors of local and regional artists' work, including mixed media, paintings, and sculptures. Check out the sculptures in the rooftop garden.

Accomplished artist Sarah Richards specializes in horses and other animal subjects, capturing them in flowing swaths of color. In addition to original paintings and prints, Richards' gallery sells drinkware and clothing bearing some of her most popular images. Also there are lovely watercolors by her late mother, the talented floral artist Lyn Snow.

Sherri Reeve is well-known for her watercolor pastel expressions of Maui's landscapes, flora, and fauna. Her origami-like sculpted works are sublime, and her designs have been applied to houseware goods that make ideal gifts. The gallery is a family affair, including her niece Makana and her daughter Hailey. Stop in and marvel at the large paintings, clothes, matte prints, postcards, luggage tags, and more.

Inside historic Poetter Hall, the Savannah College of Art and Design's shop is filled with handcrafted items guaranteed to be one of a kind. Handmade and hand-dyed silk accessories are cutting-edge, as are original fashion pieces and experimental purses by design students. Just remember that these originals are often truly unique and may not come cheap.

Ann and Paul Breeden’s Spring Woods Gallery, nestled between their home and a large shade garden for visitors, is illuminated by a tall arched window. Local farm animals appear often in her colorful, playful oil paintings. His strikingly realistic acrylic paintings capture the intensity of the Maine Coast. Both originals and fine art prints and cards featuring their works are sold, as are their son's decorative and practical ironworks and their daughters' pottery, paintings, prints, and cards. Folks are welcome to come just for the acclaimed tranquil garden, with benches, sculpture, and a delightful children's playhouse. Off U.S. 1 in Sullivan, the gallery is open off-season by appointment.

Painter Steve Adams has transformed Helper's historic JCPenney building into a glorious showcase for his impressionist takes on nature scenes from all over the world. He shares the space with painter Tim Morse, whose depictions of the Southwest are graphic and vibrant. Most days you can see at least one of them working in this huge studio and gallery. Lofty ceilings with a stuffed elk and motorcycles on display make this a memorable spot to peruse.