3. Sockerbit, 89 Christopher Street

Called “Sweet & Swedish,” Sockerbit, which is also a kind of marshmallow, specializes in Scandinavian candy, making it quite a gem among New York City’s culinary locales. If you were to enter the store, you’d immediately see a wall with bins containing over 130 different kinds of Scandinavian sweets, which you can pick and choose from to scoop into your bag (you pay per pound). The candy names are foreign, but you can read their English descriptions if you’re not sure what to choose.

Your options include gelehallon, which are raspberry drops with sugar, rabarberbitar, which are rhubarb licorice with lemon filling and sura persikobitar, which have a creamy, peachy inside but a sour exterior.