A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.