A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

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

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

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

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

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

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

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.