Tunnel to Nowhere

A few weekends ago, I found myself walking through a long, dark tunnel. Phantoms were hiding in the corners* somewhere, I am sure of it. But they let us pass through, probably as interested in the variety of visitors as I was in their possible existence. On the walls, written in red and white graffiti, were the following words:
"Nowhere, somewhere..."
And further down the way, "The story always ends..."
Then finally, "the end is near."
And I emerged into light, gripping the staff of some other traveller that had never found the end of the Tunnel of Styx. A road not taken lay before me. But instead of walking down it, I turned and made my way back through the Phantom Cavern to that unfinished road on the other side.
If you're looking for some deeper meaning, perhaps you'll find it. But this is actually a place--a tunnel constructed at the end of the Road to Nowhere near Bryson City, NC.

* "But tunnels don't have corners," says you. "That is why I couldn't find them, for that is most certainly where they were hiding," says I.