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

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

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Learn to make this village's specialty: volcanic mud tofu.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.