Places MitchHellman Wants to Go

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

The fastest way to send a message before electricity was invented.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.