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This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

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

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

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

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

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

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

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

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.