A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

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

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

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

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

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

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.