Earth's most breathtaking roads — mountain passes, coastal highways, and wilderness routes that are as much destination as journey.
Driving the Lofoten archipelago's E10 highway crosses bridges between dramatic fishing islands of jagged granite peaks, red fishermen's cabins (rorbuer), and arctic fjord reflections of extraordinary beauty.
The highest paved road in the world traverses the Karakoram mountain range at 4,693m altitude through some of Earth's most untouched and awe-inspiring high-altitude landscapes.
The quintessential American drive — 655 miles of raw Pacific cliff edge from San Francisco to LA past Big Sur's cathedral redwoods, Hearst Castle, and Malibu's surf breaks.
The 300km Garden Route from Mossel Bay to Storms River passes whale-watching lagoons, bungee jumping from Bloukrans Bridge, knysna forest elephants, and the Tsitsikamma coastline.
The 243km Great Ocean Road hugs Australia's southern coastline past the Twelve Apostles limestone stacks, surf beaches, temperate rainforest, and the memorial arch commemorating WWI soldiers who built it.
Iceland's 1,332km circumnavigation of the island passes glaciers, geysers, volcanic craters, black sand beaches, and the Northern Lights — arguably the world's most rewarding complete loop drive.
The 121km Milford Road from Te Anau to Milford Sound passes through Homer Tunnel into a glacially carved Fiordland landscape of hanging waterfalls and mountains reflected in mirror-still sound.
One of the most spectacular coastal mountain roads ever constructed, Chapman's Peak Drive near Cape Town cuts 9km of tunnels and ledges into a vertical granite cliff face above the Atlantic.
The world's most dramatic coastal road clings to cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea between Positano and Ravello — hairpin turns, pastel villages draped on near-vertical hillsides, and the bluest Mediterranean water.
The Stelvio Pass, at 2,758m, is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps — 48 hairpin bends photographed from above look like a coiled serpent. Declared the world's most beautiful road by Top Gear.
America's most spectacular alpine road crosses the Continental Divide at 2,026m through meadows of wildflowers and glacially carved peaks — open only 8-10 weeks in summer due to snowpack.
Norway's 'Troll's Ladder' hairpin mountain pass ascends through 11 hairpin bends beside a roaring waterfall — a road so spectacular UNESCO considered protecting its viewshed.
“Lofoten Islands Coastal Drive, Norway”
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