A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.