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Are you planning for a road trip with friends and relatives? If so, then try these roads. In most road trips you get to enjoy the places you pass by and drop by but passing in these roads already gives you a great experience.
Stelvio, Italy
Probably the most famous driving road anywhere in the world. It is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps. Originally it was carved through the mountains in 1820 to connect Lombardia to Austria, but it's mostly used for hoonage now.
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Lombard St.
San Francisco USA
The most crooked street in the world. The 27 percent grade of the hill made a series of super tight hairpin zig-zag turns necessary. Cars have to crawl down at a walking pace, although we think it would make for an entertaining hill-climb race.
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Baldwin StreetDunedin, New Zealand
The world’s steepest street. Made up of concrete since using asphalt can be very slippery. It has a 19 degree angle on inclination. So when driving here, you better use a car with automatic transmission or pratice half clutching as not to hit the car following you.
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Swindon, England
Sometimes the Brits can get a little carried away with their own cleverness, though. This nightmare consists of five smaller clockwise roundabouts with an anticlockwise roundabout in the centre. Apparently the trick to navigating these is just to hold your breath, and hope you come out the other side. Isn't it a thrill going back and forth in this round about. Passing here is quite an adrenaline rush.
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90 Mile Straight, Australia
Holds the record for the longest straight road and perhaps the world’s most boring road, is also one of its most deadly. This stretch of tarmac in Western Australia is 146 km long. Can you imagine it cause I can't. It stretches way beyond the horizon. Even over speeding at 120 km/h it would be over an hour of driving totally straight. It’s no wonder many people loose concentration and veer off the road.
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Germany
We’re not sure who we’re more scared for, the people in their cars on the highway, or the passengers in the plane. The W1 taxiway connects the two sides of this major international airport. The bridge looks way too thin for that gigantic Airbusses.
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Norway
According to legend it was built by ancient Norwegian trolls who used to roam these mountains looking for sweet cars. A different legend says it was built in 1936 under King Haakon VII. Either way, it's one of the most stunning stretches of tarmac anywhere in the world. The 11 hairpin bends scale the mountain right next to a 320 metre waterfall.
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Canada
If you've never been across the bridge to P.E.I. before, it's definitely worth the road trip. It's 12.9 km long and ranks among the longest bridges in the world.
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China
In order to solve the problem in building a bridge that connects left-hand-drive Hong Kong with right-hand-drive China. This concept bridge solves the problem by crossing one lane under the other. On a bridge, it’s fine, but we worry about what happens we you’re suddenly in another city and you’ve got to remember to drive on the opposite side of the road.
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Romania
Majority of the portion of the road is at 2,034 metres above sea level and up. Along the way you'll pass a castle that was the inspiration for Bram Stokers' "Legend of Dracula." as shown in the picture. The road actually goes through some mountains instead of over them, with the longest tunnel spanning some 845 metres.
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France
It's the tallest bridge in the world. One of its towers has a height of 343 metres above the ground. The road over the viaduct has the distinction of being the highest road-bridge in Europe. So avoid it if you're afraid of heights but if not try to bungee jump here.
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China
There is a lot of confusion surrounding this engineering marvel which cuts through of the Taihang Mountains in China. The real Guoliang tunnel was built to link the otherwise inaccessible Guoliang Village on top of the mountain to the rest of the country. It has to be seen to be believed.
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Once it earned the nickname, “Bridge to Nowhere” in the national press, the Gravina Island Bridge was doomed. It was supposed to connect the city of Ketchikan, Alaska (population 7,400) to the nearby airport on Gravina Island (population 50). It would have cost US$398 million. Federal funding for the bridge disappeared, but money for the highway to the proposed bridge still came in. Instead of a bridge to an airport, residents got a new US$25 million road that dead-ends where the bridge was supposed to go: the road to nowhere. Too bad this was not a part of the stimulus fund.
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Nunavut, Canada
It was made famous by the TV show Ice Road Truckers, but was made awesome by the fact 87 percent of the road’s 600 kilometres are over ultra-thick lake ice. The road was originally built in 1982 to supply the Lupin Gold Mine. Today, it serves isolated communities which, for 10 months of the year, are only accessible by air.
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China
It goes over, through and around 14 separate mountains. That alone is enough to make this list. It also crosses several famous rivers in
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Bolivia
Nobody seems to have exact figures on which road is deadliest, but Guinness World Records says most experts consider the North Yungas Road from La Paz to Coroico in Bolivia to be the deadliest. There are as many as 300 deaths annually per 4.3 km of road. Despite all this people still have the guts to pass here? WOW. Can't they budget a detour? This road has killed more than AIDS does.
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Ebenezer Place
Wick,
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