As you scroll past some of these images, you will wish you could stop your life and get onto that road. Others you will be grateful if you never have to get any closer than your computer. Some you will simply marvel at human engineers. And as always, for some we must thank the artistry of the photographer.
When I know where the image is located, I label it. If you recognize anything unlabeled, please share the location in the comments.
BP Koirala Highway, also known as Banepa Bardibas Highway, Nepal
Newlands valley, Lake District, England by John Finney
Dallas/Fortworth, aka John Wayne airport.
Highway of Death, Bolivia
Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan
Nfinity Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees, England
Chaloos, Iran
Monument Valley, Utah By Ian Soboley
Monitor Marrimac Memorial Bridge and tunnel, S.E. Virginia, USA
A California highway, probably in Los Angeles
North Atlantic Road, Norway
Iranian Province of East Road
Tuscany, Italy
Gate Tower Highway through a building, Osaka, Japan
Cliffside steps, Hunan, China
Rwanduz city in Kurdistan
The Dark Hedges, Northern Ireland
The Atlantic Road, Norway
Perfect car for some of these rugged roadways.
An overpass for animals to cross highway safely, Trans-Canada Highway
Oresund, Denmark and Sweden. Who knew there were two bridges that turn into tunnels?
Staircase at Pailon Del Diablo waterfall, Ecuador
Train at Dudhsagar Waterfalls, India
The Bridge of Immortals, HuangShan, China
Atlantic Road, Norway
Note deer crossing
Rope Bridge over Tsingy de Bemaraha (Stone Forest), Madagascar
Moki Dugway in Utah, maybe
Sakuragawa River, Japan
Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina
Victoria Falls, Zambia
Northern Lights, Norway
Stair above the sea, Aketx, Basque County, Spain
Vermont
South Carolina, By Johnn Cox on flickr
Transfagarasean, Romania
Nisqually Vista, Washington
For more weird roads to here.
Thanks to Erica Moore at Pinterest and DamnCoolPictures
and to Tim, Kathleen, Jen and Neil
AS EVER—THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING, SCARY AND UNIQUE PICTURES! AND NO, I DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE TWO, YES 2, “BRIDGE TO TUNNEL TO BRIDGE” CREATIONS!
BEST, LORIE
“There’s roads and there’s roads and they call can’t you hear it
Roads of the earth, and roads of the spirit,
and the best roads of all are the ones that aren’t certain,
On one of those is where you’ll find me when they drop the big curtain…”
-Bruce Cockburn lyrics
Thanks for sharing the beauty, Dusky.
I have always been a daily appreciater of Nature’s wonders — thank you so much for showing me some that I never knew existed. I am truly in awe!
Just so Wow… as usual.
Thanks
Beautiful
The runway as a bridge looks like Dallas-Ft.Worth airport (John Wayne?) to me. I remember flying in there. Very bad cross winds make it difficult to land there. But you taxi over the highway on the way to the terminal.
Beautiful pictures…
Barbara, Thanks for the info. I’ve updated the image.
Transfagarasan is in Romania… one of the most interesting circuit in the mountains. Nice collection.
Thanks. I’ll update the image. I love it when people can help me identify artists and places.
The 13th photo from the end looks like it could be the Moki Dugway in Utah.
Thanks CK. I tried googling Moki Dugway images and looking for that photo. The terrain looks the same, but no one managed to get that perspective of twists and turns. Everyone seemed to be taking their pics from a different place. So I’m not sure what to think. Thanks for sharing on being a detective to figure out locations.
God! Some places are right out of dreams. And then there are places that even dreams cant imagine!! thanks for showing me how less i have seen, and how much is left!!
thankyou so much for showing.. enlightening us with this!
Some of the roads gave me crepes…!!!!…some others made me salute man’s enterprise, engineering skill & bold imagination…!!! I wd like to be on some…but….never on others..!!!! they give me vertigo even while seeing their pics….!!!!!…..God….!!!!
Equally enterprising are the guys who skillfully photographed these roads…..!!!!! quite hair-raising…!!!
The 23rd image (boardwalk) is a section of the Overland Trail at Cradle Mountain National Park in Tasmania.
And that is definitely the Moki Dugway. You have to actually get out the car and walk a little way to get this view.
Fun page! Thanks!
Thanks so much for the info. I’ll update it.
I so enjoying looking at these wonderful pictures, thank you, Dusky. Just wanted to mention that the actual John Wayne Airport is Orange County, CA, not Dallas/Ft.Worth.
The curved concrete highway hanging off the side of the mountain and resting on huge concrete pillars appears to be the Linn Cove Viaduct between mile posts 299 and 317 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. It is regarded as a marvel of engineering and allowed construction without damaging the side of the mountains.
It is the photo just before Victoria Falls, Zambia.
Gene,
Thanks for the info. I’ll fix it on the post. What a beautiful highway.
The Moki Dugway is definitely in Utah, about 30 miles north of Monument Valley. And yes, it’s scary as hell but amazing views.
Congratulations, if you have done it yourself.
The photo of the Airbus 380 going over the road is not DFW (and certainly not John Wayne airport!…..that is, as another said, in Orange County, CA) . Look at the traffic………………………..the cars are heading in a most decidedly British direction!…………AND they look British!………………….The sky even looks British!……………..
John,Thanks for the heads-up on this. I just copy what I find other places unless it has a red flag to catch my attention. Obviously this didn’t. 🙂
Thank you add Rwanduz city in Kurdistan the road iam from rwanduz city
Now called the Hamilton Road
Gehan,
Thank you so much for telling me about these images. What a beautiful place you live–and that road looks unbelievable. I will definitely include it in my next post about vacation places.
The Mogi Dugway does not have lane paint, it is a gravel road with no lanes but its two way traffic. I drove it last summer and was beautiful drive but dangerous.
Photos are beautiful!
The photo labeled “Iranian Province of East” is actually of “Highway of Death” in Bolivia.
I agree, the photos are beautiful.
Regarding the road in Iran ,which is in Japan, I wrote you a comment in Pinterest where you posted it