Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

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

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

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

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

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

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

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

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

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

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

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

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

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.