So Many Possible Secret Lairs, So Little Time For Global Plots

For nearly 40 years, architectural critic John Margolies photographed attractions and buildings along the roads of the United States. The Public Domain Review has a neat article about how his pictorial archive was donated to the Library of Congress, which put the material in the public domain (although individual artwork may still be copyrighted).

I found poking around the article (and lightly through the archives) to be a fun traversal across time and space in America. Of course, the gamer in me couldn't help but wonder, "What kind of encounter could I set amid the windmill of the Log Cabin Motel, a dinosaur-shaped auto center, or a carwash shaped like a whale?"

-- Steven Marsh