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

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

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

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

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

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

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

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

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

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.