Bridge

According to a local informant, the roads leading to the Bridge of Death are windy and curvy as they are, not for any engineering reason, or even stupidity, but because Yale University had a boat house in the path of the bridge, and was able to argue that eminent domain did not apply in this case. That's a nice advertisement for the Yale Law School! "How good are we? Well, see that bridge... ?"

The boat house is long gone, by the way, and it seems that the city of New Haven has decided that the old bridge was causing too many traffic delays and endangering too many lives, and is building a new bridge. The new bridge will be straight.