1. Highway 1, Big Sur, California

Highway 1 (State Route 1) is one of the main ones on the west coast of the United States, passing from south to north, penetrating the state of California. In the Rocky Mountain region of Big Sur, the road goes inland and passes through colorful redwood forests, then again emerges on the coast, crossing several historical sites, one of which is the Bixby Creek bridge.

2. Road of the abyss, Switzerland

The road passing through the high (2429) pass (Furka Pass) in the Swiss Alps

3. atlantic road, Norway

The Atlantic Road, opened on July 7, 1986, is part of the National Tourist Route Country Road 64 and is 8.3 kilometers long. It connects the towns of Kristiansund and Mold in the district of Mere og Romsdal.

The road is built on several small islands and skerries connected by dams and eight bridges.

4. White desert road, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

170 km road through national park provides selective extreme for thrill-seekers.

5. Tainmen High Road, Hunan, China

It is located in the Taimen National Park in the northwest of Hunan Province. The top can be reached by cable car, which is 7455 meters long and takes you to a height of 1279 meters. Or you can take the 11 km road with 99 bends. A pleasant journey awaits you into the depths of the caves that are located on the top of the mountain.

6. Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys

Seven miles or 11 kilometers of the world's longest bridge built from single blocks. Connects the islands of the Florida Keys.

7. Peak Chapman Drive, Cape Town, South Africa

On the southwest coast of South Africa, there is a road that goes around the rocky mountains of Chapman Peak, providing the traveler with stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean.

8. Stelvio Pass, Eastern Alps, Italy

The sharp turns - about 60 - and 48 hairpins on the Stelvio Pass road will not leave you indifferent. The road, built in 1829, is located at an altitude of 2757 m above sea level, and is considered the second largest pass in the Alps after Col De L'Iseran (2770 m).

9 Col De Turini, France

The highest pass in the French Alps (1607), it is famous for the fact that Monte Carlo Rally of WRC competitions are held on the 32-kilometer part of the road.

10. Gualin Tunnel Road, China

Tunnel in the Teiheng Mountains, Henan Province. It was opened in 1977, its length is 1200 meters, height is 5 meters, width is 4 meters. The Chinese name Guoliang means "the road that does not tolerate mistakes." Traveling through the tunnel will reveal the beauties of the surrounding mountains.

11. Denali Highway, Alaska

The Denali Highway, opened in 1957, is 217 km long. It passes through the amazing, wild places of Alaska and leads to Denali National Park (formerly McKinley Park).

12. Karakoram Highway, China / Pakistan

The eighth wonder of the world is one of the names of the 1300-kilometer high-altitude highway Karakoram, which runs at an altitude of 4693 through the Khundzherab pass. Construction was carried out for twenty years - from 1966 to 1986 - and cost three billion dollars.

13. Great Ocean Road, Australia

Along with the Great Barrier Reef, the Great Ocean Road is rightfully considered a national treasure of Australia. The 243-kilometer road runs along the southeast coast of the mainland and was built between 1919 and 1932 by soldiers returning from the First World War.

In addition to beautiful landscapes and mountain ranges, there are other sights along the way - the legendary limestone towers of the Twelve Apostles.

14. Sani Pass, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The Sani Pass mountain pass in Lesotho is a place for extreme sports. A nine-kilometer long road requires the driver to have special driving skills. Besides, vehicle must have 4*4 drive. The pass is often closed due to weather conditions.

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Railways were built and are being built everywhere, regardless of the terrain. We know about the highest and most dangerous highway, about the longest and shortest road.

The most dangerous railway

Many railway lines can be called dangerous, but the road located in Argentina is recognized as the most dangerous. Its name is Tren a las Nubes, which translates as "Train to the clouds." During the journey, the road passes through tunnels, bridges, zigzags, descents and ascents. Tourists on the 15-hour route experience fear as the carriages literally make their way through the clouds. The train often slows down and slips, which is additional reason for passenger anxiety.

Moving along the banks of the canyons, the train crosses them on steel, seemingly weightless bridges. He ends his journey at an altitude of four thousand meters. The most famous place of the route is the old viaduct, built in 1930. During the trip, the train passes two zigzag rises, overcomes twenty-nine bridges, twenty-one tunnels and twelve viaducts, several times it makes a three hundred and sixty-degree turn.

On the verge of hysteria are train passengers during a trip over one of the most deep canyons Argentina, the depth of which is seventy meters. The train moves over the rickety bridge for five minutes without end.

The shortest railway

This year, the Pope allowed everyone to use their own railway. We are talking about the road connecting the station in Rome with the station in the Vatican. This railway was built back in 1934 in order to deliver the pontiff from the Vatican to Rome. All these years it has been available for use only to the current pope. Now everyone can use it for forty euros.

The length of the railway track between the stations is only one kilometer two hundred and seventy meters. It originates behind St. Peter's Basilica and passes by several sights of the city-state - this is the Second Vatican Cathedral, and the Vatican Gardens, and the Sextine Chapel, and multiple museums.

The highest mountain railway

Railroad tracks do not always pass through the plains. Often their construction is carried out in mountainous areas, over canyons or over expanses of water seas. The highest mountain railway is considered to be the one that runs from the Chinese province of Qinghai to the autonomous region of Tibet. Its length is almost two kilometers.

The highest point of this road is at an altitude of five thousand seventy-two meters. Since at this altitude the atmospheric pressure is up to forty percent of normal, trains on this route are equipped with oxygen masks.

Construction was carried out for several decades due to many obstacles - high mountain ranges, rarefied air, permafrost. Thanks to the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet road, the outlying provinces received a powerful impetus for economic development.

The longest railway in the world

The title of the longest railway in the world was given to the Trans-Siberian Railway or the Trans-Siberian. For many years, this road has remained in first place in terms of length. Its length is nine thousand two hundred and eighty eight kilometers.

The giant highway, passing through the territory of Russia, connects the European part of the continent with the Far East, the Urals, Siberia, and connects ports in the south and west. The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was due to the need for a uniform socio-economic development of a huge country.

Construction began in 1891, when the first stone was laid. The end of construction can be considered the year 1904, when the railway connection between Vladivostok and St. Petersburg appeared. Despite the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway, construction work continued for many more years, until 1938, when a second track was laid. Not only railways are amazing, but also the trains that run on them. There is a site on the site that mentions underwater, the oldest, longest and other interesting trains.
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How great it would be to drop everything and go on a real road trip, when the wind plays in your hair, and only the horizon and kilometers of new roads lie ahead. But why delay? Right here and right now website offers you to see the most beautiful tracks in the world.

Running through dangerous serpentines and sand dunes, they become part of a beautiful landscape that opens up to everyone who dares to drive there.

Road along Tianmen, China

This highway is called the Big Gate Road, but the people simply call it the Road to Heaven. And the point is not even in the height to which the roadbed rises, but in the complexity and number of curled turns. Speaking of altitude, the road starts at 200 meters above sea level and rises to 1300 meters. It is also called the 99 turns road, since the nine is lucky number in China, symbolizing heaven and 9 palaces.

Los Corales, Chile

This road connects 2 countries South America- Chile and Argentina. It runs along an extremely steep slope and has many very sharp turns, which makes it one of the most difficult in the world.

Florida Keys, USA

The Seven Mile Bridge is one of the most popular places on the islands of Florida. This is a unique masterpiece of engineering.

Dadès Gorges, Morocco

The "Dades Gorges" road in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is famous for its sharp turns and deadly danger.

Transfagaras Highway, Romania

The Transfagaras highway is a mountain highway in the Carpathians, connecting the Romanian regions of Wallachia and Transylvania and passing through the Fagaras mountain range. According to the rating of the popular British TV show about cars Top Gear, this highway is the most interesting road in Europe.

Sani Pass, South Africa

Sani Pass is the highest mountain pass in South Africa, located in the Dragon Mountains at an altitude of 2880 m above sea level. Bypassing the Sani Pass, you find yourself in another state - Lesotho. The path here lies through one of the most high points mountains Drakensberg - "The Roof of Africa".

Stelvio Pass, Italy

This is the most winding road in Europe - it has 48 "hairpins", in some places the road becomes extremely narrow. It zigzags for almost 1.5 km, and then follows 275 meters of a gentler descent with many bends that still keep drivers on their toes.

Atlantic road, Norway

The 8 km long Atlantic Road was built in Norway specifically for tourists. The 12 bridges that connect the islets along the North Atlantic coast are a route to enjoy the beauty of nature, fresh breeze and a sense of freedom.

This spectacular tunnel is one of the few ways to get to the village of the same name in the Hunan province of China. Hand-carved in 1970, Guoliang is a road that Mahmassani calls "more sculpture than vehicle." The tunnel cuts through a fragile part of the Taihang Mountains and is dotted with makeshift windows that provide a picturesque yet terrifying view.

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Atlanterhavsveien, Norway

Atlanterhavsveien, better known as the "Atlantic Road", is a 9 km stretch of road on the west coast of Norway that opened in 1989. The road consists of eight small bridges that cross an archipelago of eight different islands. Humpbacked bridges of bizarre shape are created using special technologies that allow them to withstand any bad weather. During their construction, the workers who worked on the project had to endure about a dozen tornadoes, which are as common in the area as ordinary rain.

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Yungas Road, Bolivia

One of the most terrible and dangerous roads in the world is located in the Andes and leads to the capital of Bolivia - La Paz. The elevation changes on it range from 1200 to 4500 meters, while the width of the road is only 3 meters. Do not expect that along the route you will meet at least one fence, they are not there. Therefore, car crashes here occur almost every day. Every year, 300 people die on the Yungas road (the length is only 65 km). In the near future, it is planned to expand it, but at the moment the project is at the stage of searching for investors.

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Capulin Volcano Road, New Mexico, USA

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This serpentine road rises almost to the very mouth of the Capulin volcano, which formed 60,000 years ago. At its very top is the Capulin Volcano National Monument. The road is so narrow and winding that only one car can pass through it at a time, so the traffic is organized according to a schedule. Hiking to the crater of the volcano is organized at the top, since it has not been active for a long time.

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Trollstigen, Norway

This mountain pass in southwestern Norway opened in 1936 after eight years of construction. Trollstigen literally means "Road of the Trolls" in Norwegian. It is one of the four most popular tourist sites in Norway. In its very middle is a small bridge over the Stigfossen waterfall, which has a height of 180 meters. Some passes were cut right into the side of the mountain. The passage is open, as a rule, from the end of May, and sometimes, due to harsh winters, it opens only in June.

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There are many roads in the world different types complexity, different layout and importance. Some of them pass between cities, others lead through mountains and valleys. In this collection, I will tell you about the most beautiful and famous roads in the world. They are very popular with hikers and hikers because of the picturesque landscapes and many twists and turns. Driving along such a road, you will not leave a feeling of delight, and sometimes even fear.

1. These roads are not only the most beautiful, but also the most winding. We have already written about the most dangerous roads in the world, this topic will be a continuation of the selection. We start at the Stelvio Pass in the eastern Italian Alps, this zigzag road extends up to 2.7 kilometers above sea level with around 60 hairpin bends. Looking at it from the side is very beautiful, but driving on it is very dangerous.

5. Trollstigen in Norway

This is one of the most unusual roads on our list, passing along the bed of a frozen river. It connects the remote corners of Canada with civilization, but only during the cold season, when the river is in a frozen state.

14. Atlantic Road in Norway

This is one of the most popular tourist routes in Norway, and its real decoration is Storsesandet bridge, which is often called the bridge to nowhere