The Most Amazing Roads in the World. On the Iroha-zaka road in Japan, there are 48 curves. Each curve has a plate with one of the 48 syllables of Japanese.

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The Most Amazing Roads in the World

On the Iroha-zaka road in Japan, there are 48 curves. Each curve has a plate with one of the 48 syllables of Japanese Hiragana alphabet.

Estrada de Los Caracoles, in the Chilean Andes.

Bridge Road Storseisundet Atlantic (Atlanterhavsveien), Norway.

Highway 163, heading towards Monument Valley near Navajo, Utah

James Dalton Highway, built parallel to the Alaskan pipeline to support the project.

Millau bridge, highway Paris-Barcelona.

Corridor of snow on the road to Mount Tateyama, called the Japanese Alps.

Troll Road (Trollstigen), Norway.

Curves of the "S" on the road to Jiufen in Taiwan.

Bridge "inverter between China and Hong Kong because traffic drives on the left in Hong Kong.

Bridges, tunnels into the Chesapeake Bay, which allow the passage of warships of the base in Norfolk.

Estrada da Serra do Rio do Rastro in Lauro Müller, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Passage of Stelvio (Stelvio Pass), in the Italian Alps.

Turini Pass (Col de Turini), France.

Tian Men Shan Road, Hunan province, China.

Coastal road in Cape Town, South Africa

As the village of Guoliang was isolated in a valley,13 residents opened a tunnel in the rock on their own, using only picks.

Road Kill (camino a los Yungas), from La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia (average of 96 deaths per year). In fall, the drivers use the opposite order to see the abyss.

Judge Harry Pregerson intersection, between Interstates I-105 and I-110, Los Angeles

The flawless finish of the bridges in Japan.

Intersection spiral in Shanghai, China.

Bridge spiral: the solution to descend a very steep mountain in Kamazu, Japan.

Highway 17, the stretch of Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA.

Siberian Road to Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world (record of 64 º C below zero).

Garganta del Dades, Morocco.

Picture on the Internet identified this as a bridge. But it is actually a gazebo on Hiyoshi Dam in Kyoto, Japan.