http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ludington/7/208/452
This is a cute little half-sim of a piece of roadside America. Unfortunately, it's on a tiny island, unconnected to anything else.
SL has many good pieces of roadside America. Maybe, between the junk-filled continents and the isolated islands, SL should have an intermediate stage. Little themed privately owned areas, with SL-owned buffer sims between them to set the theme.