In the years following World War II, a national highway system began to expand into the American West, improving trade and bringing with it tourists from the East Coast. Along these new thoroughfares grew several small communities hoping to cash in on this sudden influx. By century's end, however, many of these upstart communities had failed, and huge numbers of residents had left in search of another livelihood. What happens to these places when everyone has disappeared? This photographer set out to find out, journeying across several states and encountering remnants of a once bustling past, from toppled water towers and boarded-up businesses to abandoned homes hidden behind overgrown lawns, exploring the enduring impact humans have on their landscape.