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The Road to Nowhere

Bryson City, NC

A mountain road built after the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park ends abruptly at a long tunnel through the mountain. Construction was abandoned before the promised route was completed, leaving a paved road and dark pedestrian-access tunnel that literally lead nowhere.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/grsm/learn/historyculture/north-shore-road.htm

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