Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

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

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

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

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

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

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

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

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

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

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

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

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.