Places DBlock1001 Wants to Go

This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

An old curiosity shop holds on to a centuries-old tradition of manually-distilled rose water.

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

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.

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.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

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

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

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

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

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

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

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

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

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

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

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

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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

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