Every day a person walks kilometers of the way. And often we do not pay attention to the road under our feet. But there are highways, bridges and tunnels that catch the eye with their amazing view or unique design. To your attention 9 of the most original roads in the world.
Troll Ladder
The Troll Staircase is a famous hiking trail located in Norway. The construction of this unusual track was completed in 1936. It is a serpentine road of bizarrely curving roads along a mountain slope, between which a waterfall 180 meters long flows. Troll ladder tilt angle - 9%.
Storsezandet "Drunken" Bridge
Another attraction from Norway is the longest bridge on the Atlantic Road. The deviation of the roadway at sea is as much as twenty-three meters. This track, as part of the entire Atlantic Road, was built in the 1980s for eight years. Until 1999, the Storsezandet Bridge was paid.
Interesting fact: the construction of the bridge is so unusual that from a certain viewing angle it seems that it is still unfinished.
Magnetic hill
Sometimes it seems that mysticism intervenes in the creation of an unusual path. So you might think, having visited the Magnetic Hill, located on the Leh - Kargil - Batalik highway in India. This road has long attracted the attention of tourists who believe in the supernatural. The thing is that the cars left at the foot of the hill on the "neutral" do not stand, but move on their own, and up along the path. A lot of assumptions have been made regarding the reasons for such a strange phenomenon - from optical illusion to theories of extraterrestrial interference. But so far the most plausible seems to be the version about the deposits of magnetic ores, which "push" machines up.
Musical road
In California, there is an unusual road that will give everyone passing along it minutes of enjoying classical music. The road surface was designed in such a way that when driving on it with a certain speed, the melody of the final part of the overture of Rossini's opera "Wilhelm Tell" is created. However, the correct speed is not everything: according to Novate.ru, in order to hear music, you need to drive in a car with a solid, sturdy body - it is from it that the vibration created by the notches on the road will resonate in the form of a melody.
Baldwin street
It would seem that roads with a high degree of inclination should meet in the mountains. However, in New Zealand, the steepest path is asphalted and runs along a normal street between residential buildings. Baldwin Street in Dunedin is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the coolest in the world. It is 359 meters long, with an ascent of almost 80 meters. In the steepest section, the slope is 19 degrees.
Roof of japan
Mother Nature can also create an unusual path. It happened in Japan, in the high-mountainous region of Mudore-dare. The thing is that in 1971 a record amount of precipitation fell there, and even before that, a lot of snow had accumulated, which no one removed. And then they decided to clean the 90-kilometer track. The cleaning took a whole month. The spectacle that opened after the cleaning was incredible: the road was "chained" in snow walls up to twenty meters high. After that, such cleaning became a tradition and bore fruit - the "Roof of Japan" became a famous point on the tourism map, which is visited by up to a million people every year.
Winston Churchill Avenue, Gibraltar
Sometimes the traffic in the city is so busy that cars at the intersection have to let … the plane pass. Such an unusual story takes place every day on Winston Churchill Avenue, one of the busiest roads in the area. On one stretch, the road crosses the runway of the North Front Airport, also known as Gibraltar. In such an unusual way, the problem of lack of space for the roadway was solved.
Gate tower building
Asians are known for their ingenious approaches to solving the problem of lack of space. This is how a unique sixteen-story office building, the Gate Tower Building, appeared in Osaka, which literally crosses the Hanshin Expressway. The road was built in 1989, occupying from the 4th to the 8th floor of the building.
Nanpu bridge
Perhaps, in China, the problem of lack of space for both the road and residential premises is more acute than anywhere else. Therefore, when it was required to build another bridge in Shanghai in order to reduce the length and area of approaches to it, they decided to make the structure in a spiral. So in 1991 a bridge appeared over the Huangpu River. It is one of the most famous bridges in Shanghai, 8346 m long.
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