In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

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

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

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

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

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Discover the taste of mold.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.