Places MitchHellman Wants to Go

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.