Roads

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

Things roll uphill on this Mexican street that seems to defy gravity.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.