Places lokimann Wants to Go

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

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

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

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

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

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

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

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

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

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