An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

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

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

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

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

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

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

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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