Some road trips are terribly boring. But there are also times when it's not the destination, but the road and streets you drive on that are the main attractions.
If you love to travel by car and want to see something unique on your next turn behind the wheel, set your navigator to the strangest and most unusual roads and streets in the world.
10. The most crooked street in the world is Lombard Street
Where is it located: on Russian Hill in San Francisco, USA
Anyone hoping to drive down the world's most crooked street may now have to pay a toll. The road, with eight turns in 400 metres, is so popular with tourists that it creates problems for the people who live there.
City bosses believe charging drivers $10 (just under 640 rubles) will help ease congestion and noise on the unusual road.
9. Steepest paved road - Ffordd Pen Lech
Where is it located: Harlech town in North Wales, UK
In July 2019, the street took the official title of the steepest paved road in the world from the previous steepest record holder, Baldwin Street in New Zealand.
Ffordd Pen Lech is 330 metres long and has a rise of 50 metres. Some sections have a gradient of 37.45 %. At its steepest point, the road has a gradient of 1:2.67 (the height increases by one metre for every 2.67 metres of length), while Baldwin Street has a gradient of 1:2.86.
To avoid accidents, authorities have restricted traffic on the northern part of the street, where cars are only allowed to move downhill.
8. The most musical road - Civil Music Road
Where is it located: Lancaster City, California, USA
Many motorists like to say that they can hear the music of the road, but some roads really do sound like music.
One place where you can feel the rhythm of the asphalt is in Lancaster, California, on Civic Musical Road.
Along its entire 400-meter length, car owners hear an excerpt from the overture to Gioachino Rossini's opera "William Tell." The road was originally intended to advertise the Honda Civic, but soon after its construction, the music lanes had to be moved away from residential buildings. Local residents did not appreciate the art and began to complain about the increased noise level.
7. The most “office road” is the multi-story building Gate Tower
Where is it located: Osaka City, Japan
Imagine a typical day at the office. Employees are busy with paperwork, someone is drinking coffee, and someone has secretly opened this website and is reading it. And nearby, cars are silently rushing by.
This is exactly what happens in one office building in Osaka, through which the Hanshin Expressway passes. The highway occupies three floors of a 16-story office building. Since the area where the highway passes is well soundproofed, cars do not disturb office workers in any way.
6. The narrowest street is Spreuerhofstrasse
Where is it located: Reutlingen city, Germany
When this amazing street was built in 1727, the city authorities hardly thought that "self-propelled carriages" would ever rush along it. And they don't, because even a person who wants to walk along Spreuerhofstrasse has to move sideways.
At its narrowest point, Spreuerhofstrasse is 31 cm wide, and at its widest, 50 cm.
But, despite its impassability, the street has become a symbol of the city and a popular tourist attraction.
5. The shortest street is Ebenezer Place
Where is it located: Wick town, Scotland
Say something like "John Wick - Baba Yaga" while walking and you'll have already reached the end of the shortest street in the world. It's only 2.6 meters long. And there's only one house on it. Number 1. It's a small hotel called Mackays Hotel.
4. The longest road in winter is the Wapusk Trail
Where is it located: between Gillam, Manitoba and Peawanuq, Ontario, Canada
The longest seasonal road, 752 km long, is built every January in Canada.
It relies on snow and ice to allow locals to travel for weeks at a time to remote areas around Hudson Bay, areas that are only accessible by air during warmer months.
3. The most difficult road is the "Magic Carousel"
Where is it located: Swindon town, England
This ring of circles will make any tourist who dares to go there by car tear their hair out and curse the day they decided to get behind the wheel. It was built in 1972 and even then had the reputation of being the most difficult interchange in the world.
Drivers must move clockwise around the large ring, passing five small roundabouts in turn. The mini-rings are marked only by markings, which does not make the task easier for drivers.
2. The widest street is Monumental Val
Where is it located: Brasilia city, Brazil
The widest road in the world is located in the capital of Brazil. This avenue was opened in April 1960 and is 250 meters wide. It connects the Municipal Square with the Three Powers Square.
Locals even have an urban legend that a hundred cars can drive along Monumental Val at the same time. As they say, a strong statement that no one will check.
1. The longest road is the Pan-American Highway
Where is it located: from Alaska in the USA to Brasilia in Brazil, South America
The total length of this highway is 30,000 kilometers. If you do not take into account the 87-kilometer Darien Gap, which is located in the jungle, on the border of Panama and Colombia, then the Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, it creates a single road system that includes all the national road networks of the continental states of America.
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