Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

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

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

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

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

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

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