most amazing streets in the world

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.

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.

The Road to Giza is the worlds oldest known paved road. The road is over 4600 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).

9 de Julio Avenue (meaning 9th of July Avenue in honor of Argentinas 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 Rep

Lombard Street in San Francisco is famous for its bizarre hairpin turns. There are eight of the turns (called switchbacks) and the street is known as thecrookedest 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.

Anyone who has been on the Internet for a while will recognize the Magic Roundabout it has appeared in virtually everyfunny 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 anticlockwise (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.

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.

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.

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 Wikipedia has a list of their locations around the world.

Road to Giza is at No. 10 in our list of ten most amazing streets around the world. This is also named as the oldest known road that still exists on the world. It is said that the road is linked back to more than 4600 years by the researchers or historians. It is relatively wider roads of that time as it is six and a half feet wide. The total length of this oldest known road is around seven and half miles.