There are roads that take you somewhere, and there are roads that ask you to stop. In western North Dakota, one county road does both. It runs for about 32 miles between Interstate 94 and the town of Regent, and along the way it passes enormous metal creatures, birds, people, and one dragon with a castle. They are made from scrap metal. They stand in the prairie weather. And they were built because one former schoolteacher decided that a town being bypassed did not mean it had to disappear. I’m Lenny Voss. This is Strange America. Today, the Enchanted Highway, and the man who kept building it.
In this episode:
• The North Dakota Teacher Who Built a 32-Mile Highway of Giant Scrap-Metal Monsters
Sources & further reading:
• Artist & Project: https://enchantedhighwaynd.com/artist-and-project/
