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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.