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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 12012378" data-attributes="member: 91140">Top 10 Most Amazing Streets In The WorldTravel has been in man’s blood since the beginning of time.  In order  to facilitate travel, we built roads.  This list looks at some of the  most unusual and interesting roads.  The only requirement for the list  is that the road must still exist today.  Most are modern. 10 Gravity Hill Various Locations   Claim To Fame: Gravity hills appear to defy the laws of physics Unlike the other streets on this list, this is not a specific street  but rather a variety of streets – there are, in fact, hundreds around  the world.  When you park your car at the foot of a gravity hill (also  sometimes called Magnetic hills or Mystery hills), the car will appear  to roll up the hill – not down.  The reason for this is an  optical illusion caused by the surrounding environment.  If you are  interested in visiting a gravity hill, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magnetic_hills" target="_blank">Wikipedia has a list of their locations around the world.</a>  9 Ebenezer Place Scotland  <img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/z4696453x.jpg?w=327&h=290" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Claim To Fame: World’s Shortest street Ebenezer Place is the shortest street in the world, measuring just  2.06 meters (6.8 ft). There is just one house on the street, number 1  Ebenezer Place which was built in 1883.  The building is a hotel  (Mackays) and the owner was instructed to paint a street name on its  shortest side.  It was officially declared a street in 1887. 8 Pan-American Highway The Americas  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/434px-panamericanhwy.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/434px-panamericanhwy-tm.jpg?w=253&h=350" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s longest road The Pan-American Highway is the longest motoring road in the world.   It has replaced Yonge Street (in Toronto Canada) as the longest road  since changes were made to the configuration of Highway 11 and Yonge  Street in the 1990s.  The Pan-American highway links the mainland  nations of the Americas and is an amazing 48,000 kilometers (29,800  miles) long.  The highway passes through 15 nations, including the USA,  Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and El Salvador. 7 Parliament Street England  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/450px-parliament-street-exeter.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/450px-parliament-street-exeter-tm.jpg?w=262&h=350" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s narrowest street Parliament Street is in Exeter, England.  It is the narrowest street  in the world, measuring less than 0.64m (25″) at its narrowest point.   It was originally called Small Street (for reasons that are obvious) but  was renamed when parliament passed an act of law that expanded the  representation of the people in the house of commons.  The street dates  from the 1300s and it is 50 meters long. 6 Road To Giza Egypt  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/picture-4-12.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/picture-4-12-tm.jpg?w=400&h=298" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s oldest paved road The Road to Giza is the world’s oldest known paved road. The road is  over 4,600 years old and is six and a half feet wide. It covered a  distance of seven and a half miles – connecting the quarries to the  Southwest of Cairo, to the quay on Lake Moeris which connected to the  Nile.  The road was used to transport the enormous blocks of basalt to  Giza where they were used for building (especially for paving).                                                                                                                 5 9 de Julio Avenue Argentina  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/picture-3-17.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/picture-3-17-tm.jpg?w=400&h=262" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s widest street 9 de Julio Avenue (meaning 9th of July Avenue – in honor of  Argentina’s independence day) is the widest street in the world.  It has  six lanes in each direction and it spans an entire city block.  There  is a single building that sits on the Avenue (the former Ministry of  Communications building) but there are many famous landmarks along the  side – such as the old French Embassy, a statue of Don Quixote, and the  famous obelisk (visible in the picture above) and Plaza de la República. 4 Lombard Street United States  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/448px-sanfran-61-bg-032605.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/448px-sanfran-61-bg-032605-tm.jpg?w=261&h=350" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s crookedest street Lombard Street in San Francisco is famous for its bizarre hair-pin  turns.  There are eight of the turns (called switchbacks) and the street  is known as the “crookedest street in the world”.  The turns were added  because the street would have been too steep for most vehicles (though  it would still be less steep than the street in item 1). The twisting  section of Lombard Street is now one way – in order to make it safer and  there is a parking ban in place. 3 The Magic Roundabout England  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/msn-magic-roundabout-470x350.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/msn-magic-roundabout-470x350-tm.jpg?w=400&h=297" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: World’s worst roundabout Anyone who has been on the Internet for a while will recognize the  Magic Roundabout – it has appeared in virtually every “funny picture”  list you can find.  The roundabout is a real roundabout in Swindon,  England.  It was built in 1972 and it includes 5 other smaller  roundabouts. To make matters worse, you must travel anti-clockwise (the  reverse of the normal situation on British roundabouts) when you enter  the smaller central roundabout. The Swindon Junction has been voted the  worst junction in Great Britain. 2 Savoy Court England  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/173308297-2db296a79b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/173308297-2db296a79b-tm.jpg?w=262&h=350" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: Only street in Britain where you must drive on the right As most of our readers will know, the British drive on the left  (unlike Europe and the United States).  But there is one exception to  this rule: Savoy Court is the only street in Britain where cars must  legally drive on the right.  Apparently this dates back to the old  Hackney Cabs – by driving on the right, the driver was able to open the  backdoor without leaving the cab, allowing the passengers to alight on  the sidewalk.  This is allowed by a special act of parliament. 1 Steepest Street New Zealand  <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/baldwinstreet.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/baldwinstreet-tm.jpg?w=400&h=300" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Claim To Fame: Steepest street in the world Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand boasts the steepest street.   New Zealand has many cities built on or around mountainous and hilly  areas, and Dunedin is no exception. This street (and many others in New  Zealand) were designed by British town planners who had never been to  the country.  They simply overlaid a grid pattern on the map and had no  idea that they had made impossible or ridiculous design choices.  The  slope on Baldwin street has a 35% grade.  The road is so steep that at  the top it is made of concrete because the usual road surfacing material  used in New Zealand (asphalt) would slide down the street in hot  weather. Contributor: JFrater</blockquote>

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