Places MitchHellman Wants to Go

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This twisty section of highway in the Himalayan foothills is lined with thousands of small mirrors.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

Oklahoma City's oldest arcade has reinvented itself as a competitive pinball mecca.

A comprehensive collection of toy and model trains, largely from the mid-20th century.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.