Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.