6 Insane Roads To Drive Before You Die

This road goes through an active airport runway. Yes, the one road connecting Gibraltar with the Spanish main land has to pass through the main airport runway. The traffic is halted whenever a plane is landing or taking of for about ten minutes. Imagine a plane landing right in front of you. I get goosebumps, do you?

If you like mud, then, the Lena highway is the place to be. This so called national highway in Siberia, Russia, has been built using compacted mud right next to a river. This road is as smooth as tarmac on cold winter months when temperatures can dip below -40 degrees. But once the summer arrives along with the rain, the road becomes a highway of mud and slush that can be as deep as your car. Driving this 800 mile stretch of highway will be one hell of an adventure.

Long time allies Pakistan and China decided to build a land link between the two countries and the only route they could find was through the Karakoram mountain range. This road is the highest international road at 15,500 feet. You not only have to battle low oxygen, falling boulders and prowling terrorists while driving through the Karokoram highway, you will also have to contend with snow leopards that are known to have attacked passing cars.

This is one road that you should keep to your senses while driving. It has been hand built by villagers who tunneled through a mile long mountain to connect their village to the mainland. The tunnel has been crudely built with long openings on the side that can lead you in to a free fall hundreds of feet down. The name has become popular as 'The Road That Does Not Tolerate Any Mistakes'.

You might have heard of roads that are so close to buildings, but here is one road that literally passes through a building. The Japanese city of Osaka has an express way that passes through a building named as as the Gate Tower. When town planned decided to build this express way, they found their plan was obstructed by a building. When the owners refused to raze their building to build the road, the engineers just built a road through it.

So we so far looked at roads that were built on solid earth. But here is one that passes through water. The Chesapeake Bay bridge in Maryland, USA is a 12 mile bridge that connects to costs of the Bay. When engineers planned the bridge, the US navy blocked their plans stating their ships could not pass the bay. The only solution was to build a tunnel under the ocean. Just imagine driving on the bridge and suddenly notice the road is no longer there and all you have in front of you is plain sea water. The under water tunnel runs for nearly two miles.