Virginia-Highland

This guide to Virginia-Highland in Atlanta starts with a number that never balanced: eleven houses torn down in the 1960s to make way for an Interstate 485 exit ramp that Georgia never built. It follows the Virginia-Highland Civic Association's yearslong fight against the state, and the strange, graded, empty lot that sat untouched for more than a decade after the highway plan was dropped. You'll hear how the neighborhood eventually decided what to do with the land nobody wanted to talk about. Look for the wide, oddly shaped gap in the block where the ramp was meant to curve.