In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.