Forget kale smoothies and green juice. We’re talking pure, unadulterated, sugary bliss! Sometimes you just need to ditch the diet and dive headfirst into a mountain of candy. And we know just where to find it.
From coast to coast, we’ve tracked down the most outrageous, delectable, and downright addictive candy stores in the US. Get ready for the ultimate sugar high with our list of the 20 best. Maybe buy an extra toothbrush.
1. Dylan’s Candy Bar (New York City)
Imagine Willy Wonka went to fashion school and opened a three-floor sugar palace in Manhattan! Founded by Ralph Lauren’s daughter, this candy mecca stocks over 7,000 confections.
The rainbow-spiral staircase leads to chocolate fountains and candy-embedded surfaces.
2. Economy Candy (New York City)
Holy time machine, Batman! This Lower East Side institution hasn’t changed since your grandparents bought penny candy here in 1937.
Floor-to-ceiling shelves burst with every nostalgic treat imaginable. Wax bottles, candy cigarettes, and obscure international chocolates create a treasure hunt atmosphere.
3. Schimpff’s Confectionery (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
Step into 1891 at this fourth-generation candy museum-slash-factory-slash-time-portal! The antique tin ceilings watch over candy-making demonstrations where red-hot cinnamon drops form before your eyes.
The soda fountain serves up phosphates exactly as they did during the Roosevelt administration—Teddy Roosevelt!
4. Rocket Fizz (Multiple Locations)
KABOOM! Your taste buds just exploded from buffalo wing soda and bacon-flavored cotton candy!
This retro-funky chain is part candy store, part practical joke emporium, part fever dream. Where else can you find 500 soda flavors including corn, turkey dinner, and ranch dressing?
5. It’Sugar (Multiple Locations)
Size matters at this candy megastore chain where everything comes GIANT-SIZED! One-pound Reese’s cups! Five-pound gummy bears!
Cereal boxes bigger than your torso! Your dentist just felt a disturbance in the Force and doesn’t know why.
6. Candy Kingdom (Lake Buena Vista, Florida)
Mouse ears meet sugar highs at Disney Springs’ sweetest spot! Watching candy artists pull taffy while crafting Mickey-shaped everything will hypnotize you faster than a Disney villain’s spell.
Your wallet may scream, but your inner child won’t stop grabbing.
7. Papabubble (New York City)
Candy as performance art! These sugar-spinning magicians transform molten candy into microscopic masterpieces before your drooling face.
Watch mesmerized as artisans stretch, pull, and snip hot sugar into tiny candies with intricate designs inside—from flowers to words to custom logos. The minimalist shop looks like a laboratory.
8. Sweet Pete’s (Jacksonville, Florida)
A Victorian mansion transformed into 23,000 square feet of candy paradise? Yes, please!
This architectural sugar temple houses not just a candy store but a factory, dessert bar, and candy-making classes. Rare candy store where dietary restrictions don’t equal disappointment.
9. Mast Brothers Chocolate (Brooklyn, New York)
Bearded hipsters transformed chocolate into an art form at this Williamsburg temple of cacao! The factory-meets-gallery space smells like heaven and looks like an Instagram filter come to life.
Watch the bean-to-bar process through glass walls as craftspeople create small-batch chocolates wrapped in papers so beautiful you’ll hesitate to open them.
10. Candylicious (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Vegas-sized sugar rush! This 14,000-square-foot candy playground inside The LINQ Promenade features a candy-covered Volkswagen Beetle suspended from the ceiling!
Insiders know Candylicious offers the superior selection, including international treats you can’t find elsewhere. The candy cocktail section proves what happens in Vegas (sugar-wise) should definitely not stay in Vegas.
11. Sugarfina (Multiple Locations)
Candy for grown-ups! This luxury boutique chain turns confections into jewelry-store treasures with champagne gummy bears and bourbon caramels displayed in crystal-clear cubes.
Founded by a couple who dreamed up the concept on their third date, Sugarfina elevates gummies and chocolates into sophisticated gifts. The “rosé all day” bears create lines out the door.
12. Lolli and Pops (Multiple Locations)
Wes Anderson definitely designed this whimsical candy chain! The apothecary-meets-Victorian-parlor aesthetic features candy “sommeliers” in bowties and striped aprons who offer samples on silver trays.
The macarons, truffles, and international chocolates are organized by country of origin.
13. Sockerbit (New York City)
Scandinavian minimalism meets maximum sugar at this all-white Swedish candy haven! The name means “sugar cube,” and the store looks like one too—a pristine backdrop for bins of colorful Nordic treats.
Salty licorice, chocolate-covered marshmallow cars, and sour “fish” candies introduce Americans to the unique Swedish tradition of lördagsgodis (Saturday candy).
14. Big Top Candy Shop (Austin, Texas)
Circus freaks and sugar geeks unite at this bizarre carnival-themed candy museum! Vintage sideshow posters and actual circus memorabilia create the perfect backdrop for over 300 bulk candies and 2,000+ retro packaged treats.
Their Mexican Coca-Cola selection might outshine even their candy collection!
15. Hammond’s Candies (Denver, Colorado)
Handmade candy canes twist to life before your eyes at this historic factory dating back to 1920! The free tours show artisans pulling, twisting, and cutting candies using techniques unchanged for a century.
Their signature “Mitchells” (oversized stripes of caramel, chocolate and marshmallow) have fueled Rocky Mountain sugar rushes for generations. The factory store sells “oops” candies!
16. Chocolateria San Francisco (San Francisco, California)
Ghost pepper caramels and sourdough chocolate bars? Only in San Francisco!
This tiny chocolate laboratory creates bizarre flavor combinations that somehow work magnificently. The experimental chocolatiers infuse local ingredients into small-batch confections—think Anchor Steam beer truffles and fog-inspired marshmallows.
17. Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory (Multiple Locations)
Sensory overload alert! This psychedelic candy chain looks like what would happen if Willy Wonka hired the circus to decorate after consuming too many of his own products.
Animatronic characters, wild colors, and candy-making demonstrations create controlled chaos. Their make-your-own candy stations let kids mix custom sour powders.
18. The Sweet Palace (Phillipsburg, Montana)
Ghost town meets sugar rush! Located in a preserved 1890s mining town, this Victorian candy mansion offers 50 varieties of homemade fudge surrounded by authentic Old West architecture.
The 1,000+ candy varieties include buffalo taffy and huckleberry everything. Housed in what was once a saloon, the shop maintains period details.
19. Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Food nerds worship this culinary mecca where candy-making becomes scientific obsession! Their confections feature painfully sourced ingredients like Persian saffron caramels and 5-year-aged vanilla beans.
The peanut brittle undergoes a 16-hour process that will ruin all other brittles for you. Their candy-of-the-month club has a waiting list longer than many exclusive restaurants.