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Longest Road Through No Man’s Land

The Pamir Highway between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan takes a mere hour driving through a stretch of No Man’s Land.

Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch sits alongside Route 66 in California.

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Route 66: The Mother Road

America’s Historic Route 66—the Mother Road—has become a drive of legend. Join us to see what keeps travelers coming back.

Odyssey Studios x Atlas Obscura April 28, 2026

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Shortest Street in America

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

Hill Road Flyover

This striking high elevated road snakes downhill between densely packed buildings.

Freedmen’s Town Bricks

After emancipation, former slaves paved the roads of their newly built settlement with these bricks.

Hugglescote, England

The Hugglescote Death Star

An obscure roundabout modeled on the Death Star from “Star Wars.”

Taipei Bridge Scooter Waterfall

The cascade created by Taipei’s rush-hour traffic has become one of the city’s quirkiest photo spots.

Hamburg, Germany

Waitzstraße

Dubbed Germany’s most accident-prone shopping street, this short stretch has seen around 30 cars crash into storefronts.

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Oldest Concrete Street in America

An Ohio man paved the way for the future of American transportation.

Drammen, Norway

Drammen Spiral

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.

Tozawa Goryeo Hall

A roadside stop offers a taste of Korean culture.

Charlton, Massachusetts

Charlton Route 20 Cow Tunnel

A 1926 cow tunnel that passes underneath the nation’s longest road.

Remnants of the Lincoln Highway

An old brick section of the original Lincoln Highway in a quiet neighborhood outside of town.

Smugglers’ Notch

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Hangman’s Hill

The spirit of an executioner is said to cause cars to roll uphill in this English forest.

Serra da Leba Pass

One of Africa's windiest and most scenic roads is a national symbol of Angola.

What I Found Driving Down Highway 61

The Blues Highway is by larger-than-life legends and even more remarkable true tales.

Aaron Joel Santos June 20, 2025

How to Turn Your Road Trip Into a Nature Scavenger Hunt

Teach your kids to identify astonishing flora along your journey.

Vanessa Chakour June 17, 2025