Jackson Street Bridge

This guide to Jackson Street Bridge in Atlanta starts with a plain two-lane overpass that nobody designed to be famous, laid over a trench where two interstates converge. It traces back more than fifty years to a fight over Interstate 75's route through the Old Fourth Ward, and the court settlement that buried the highway instead of the neighborhood. Photographers who gather at the railing near sunset trade a well-worn tip: turn around, because the sky behind you can be better than the one everyone came for.