Roundabouts! I grew back east in the land of traffic circles... they keep traffic flowing. Just spent two weeks driving around New Zealand, which only reaffirmed my love for these simple interchanges. Why does our society have its head collectively up its arse?

This bridge was the first major span built from here all the way through the Golden Gate. As engineers where busy driving pilings into the riverbed mud, they had to halt construction when a massive sturgeon came upon the work. The fish was "curious" and wouldn't leave the new construction alone. After running up and down the river for a hundred + years, this was the first obstruction it had ever encountered. The workers forged a massive hook, and brought a mule team down to the water's edge. One jammed the hook up into the poor animal's protractable, toothless mouth, and together they hauled this 17-foot long Leviathan, 5-foot high at the gills, up onto the ground in Old Sac. The town enjoyed sturgeon BBQ for days. Estimates placed the animal's weight at 1,700 lbs. It's age, unknown.