Explore the world's largest china shop

Visitors to North Carolina will find unique shopping venues throughout the state but none is more fascinating and unusual than a visit to the world’s largest china shop. Replacements, Ltd. is the world’s largest retailer of old and new china, crystal, silver and collectibles with more than 11 million pieces of inventory from more than 450,000 patterns in a warehouse the size of eight football fields. Located in McLeansville, near Greensboro, the building looks more like an arena than a china shop. Replacements, Ltd. offers free tours of the shop, warehouse and china museum which includes more than 2,000 rare pieces such as official White House state dinnerware service of President Harry S. Truman and a “great wall of china” with more than 500 china, 150 crystal, and 150 flatware patterns alphabetically arranged by manufacturer. Possibly the most amazing thing about the world’s largest china shop isn’t just that it is the world’s largest china shop. It’s that it is the world’s largest china shop — and it is pet-friendly. Workers are allowed to bring their pets and visitors are even allowed to bring well-behaved pets into the facility.