America’s Lost Highways Are Beautiful Monuments To Our Garbage Infrastructure

From crumbling ruins to roads surrounded by ghost towns, here's what happens when a highway is abandoned.

JALOPNIK
By Erin Marquis

January 5, 2024

It’s hard to overestimate just what a game changer the 1957 Interstate Highway Act was to building America. It’s an incredibly impressive feat of engineering and construction. But even before those slick new ways of driving, America was still the home of the road trip, via a ramshackle method of highways, turnpikes and bypasses.

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