California Has Chased a Moving Highway Downhill Since 1935. In 2024 It Gave Up and Chose a Tunnel

Pennsylvania Refused an 1885 Tunnel, Dug Its Own 85 Feet Away, and Is Now Abandoning That One Too

A Colorado Railroad Dug Under the Divide in 1893, Then Climbed Back Over the Mountain to Save Rent

Texas Rebuilt the Beach That Destroyed Highway 87 in 2023. The Road Is Still Lying in the Surf

It Took Washington 67 Years to Build This Mississippi Highway. There Is Not One Gas Station on It

Oklahoma Paved a Highway Half as Wide as a Highway in 1922, Then Made It Route 66. One Mile Survives

In 1956, Wyoming Told Washington Not to Build I-80 Here. It Opened in 1970 and Closed in Four Days

Two Men Carved Their Names Inside an Oregon Highway Tunnel in 1921. Then Oregon Filled It With Rock

Why Is There a Railroad Over the Continental Divide in Colorado That Nobody Is Allowed to Tear Up?

Why Did America's Longest Electric Railroad Pull Down Its Own Wire in the Middle of an Oil Crisis?

Why Is There a Wooden Railroad Bridge in the California Desert That No Train Can Reach?

Why Did North Carolina's Steepest Railroad Aim Every Train on the Way Down at a Runaway Ramp?

Arizona Ran US 80 Across the Top of a Dam in 1922. In 1993 the Dam Broke and the Highway Did Not

A Colorado Railroad Built America's Highest Tunnel to Win a Race, Then Went Bankrupt Keeping It Open

A Minnesota Mine Dug to the Edge of a Lake. In 1924 the Lake Came In and 41 of 48 Men Never Came Up

A Pennsylvania Town Watched Its Dam Bend 32 Inches in 1910. In 1911 It Killed 78 of Them

Henry Ford Killed a Michigan Highway So a Fishing Club With 50 Members Would Finally Let Him In

California Kept Its Own Constitution in an Abandoned Railroad Tunnel for 63 Years

The Army Sealed This Tunnel in 1942 With 32 Men Buried Outside It and It Has Not Been Opened Since

A Man Built a Railroad Over the Top of a Mountain Because He Could Not Afford to Dig Through It

Richmond Sealed a Tunnel in 1926 With a Locomotive and Two Men Still Inside It

America Held a Ceremony in 1942 to Rip Up the First Transcontinental Railroad for Scrap

Florida Left the Wreckage of Its Worst Bridge Disaster Standing and Charges 4 Dollars to Fish On It

Engineers Wrote Down Exactly How This Bridge Would Fall in 2002. In 2003 It Fell That Way

Pennsylvania Buried a Finished Highway in 1977, Then Rented It Out to Goat Farmers

America Promised North Carolina a Road in 1943, Then Paid 52 Million Dollars Not to Build It

California Wiped US 40 Off Its Maps in 1964 — Then Kept Driving It for Sixty Years

Baltimore Bulldozed 971 Homes for a Highway, Built 1.4 Miles of It, and Left the Rest on the Map

Interstate 95: The Highway That Lost Its Number

Glenwood Canyon: The Road Buried Under America's Last Interstate

Blue Ridge Tunnel: The Tunnel Virginia Sealed for 76 Years

Memorial Tunnel: The Abandoned Tunnel They Kept Setting On Fire

Route 66: The Bridge Nobody Could Afford to Demolish

Route 66: The Mountain Grade Cars Climbed in Reverse

Hoover Dam: The Highway America Closed and Never Reopened

Laurel Hill: The Abandoned Tunnel Guarded Around the Clock

Highway 287: The Road Colorado Decided to Drown

Donner Pass: The Tunnel America Dug by Hand and Abandoned

Cumberland Gap: The Highway America Erased

Why 13 Miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Were Abandoned

The Ridge Route: The Deadliest Road California Ever Abandoned

What Killed America's Loneliest Road?