Places Faded Highways Wants to Go

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.