A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

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

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

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.