World's 11 Scariest Roads (PHOTOS)

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1. North Yungas Road, Bolivia

Also known as "Death Road," North Yungas Road connects the city of La Paz to Coroico in North Yungas, Bolivia and is considered the world's most dangerous road. The narrow dirt road, which was built into the side of the Cordillera Oriental Mountain chain by Paraguayan prisoners in the 1930s, has a death toll of about 300 people a year, according to the History Channel. The path, most of which is no wider than 12 feet, descends nearly 11,800 feet in just 40 miles, and travelers have to deal with dangers such as aconstant fog, heavy rain, loose rocks, limited visibility and 2,000-foot drop-offs. But that doesn't stop thrill-seeking tourists from traveling (and even bicycling) the infamous road, which has become one of Bolivia's most popular attractions. 

2. Guoliang Tunnel Road, China

The Guoliang Tunnel Road, which is carved along the side of and through the Taihang Mountains in Xinxiang, Henan Province, China, has a fascinating history. Construction of the road is said to have been undertaken in the 1970s by 13 villagers from Guoliang, using only chisels and hammers. The project took five years to complete, according to the Daily Mail. Only 12 feet wide, the road offers views of the sheer drop below via 30 tunnel "windows" of varying sizes. 

3. Trollstigen Mountain Road, Norway

One of Norway's most visited attractions, the Trollstigen National Tourist Route is a 3.7 mile-long stretch of road by the UNESCO-protected Geirangerfjord with a dizzying view of sheer mountainsides, waterfalls, deep fjords and valleys. The road, also known as "Troll's road" has a steep incline of 9 percent and consists of 11 hairpin bends, according to VisitNorway.com. Although several bends were widened during 2005 to 2012, vehicles over 41 feet long are prohibited from driving the road. Visitors who want to take in some of the country's most dramatic scenery should stop at 2,300 ft plateau, where there is a car park and several viewing balconies overlooking the bends and the picturesque Stigfossen waterfall.

4. Fairy Meadows Road, Pakistan

Pakistan’s Fairy Meadows Road, leading to the base of the Nanga Parbat Mountain, has been called one of the world's deadliest highways due to its "treacherous high altitude, unstable and narrow mountain roads," according to the Daily Mail. The road is unmaintained and there are no guardrails to protect drivers from falling at least 2,000 feet down.

5. Stelvio Pass, Italy

The Stelvio Pass is a mountain pass in northern Italy, at an elevation of 9,045 ft above sea level, and is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps. The spectacular road, which connects Bormio to the South Tyrol and to Switzerland, has 40 hairpin turns on the Lombard side above Bormio, and 48 more on the South Tyrol side above Prato allo Stelvio, in the Venosta Valley. Viewed from below, the road resembles "a giant strand of spaghetti dropped from the heavens," according to the Independent.

6. Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand

7. Atlantic Road, Norway

The Atlantic Road (also known as Atlantic Ocean Road) is a 5.2 mile long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Eide and Averøy in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. It is built on several small islands and skerries, which are connected by several causeways, viaducts and eight bridges, including the cantilever 850ft-long Storseisundet Bridge. The road has a width of 21 feet and a maximum gradient of eight percent.

8. Kabul-Jalalabad Highway, Afghanistan

The Kabul–Jalalabad Highway is a road running between the cities of Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan and through the Kabul Gorge. Because of the many traffic accidents, the road is considered one of the most dangerous in the world. The gorge, in some places no more than a few hundred yards wide, is framed by vertical rock cliffs that soar more than 2,000 feet above the Kabul River below, according to the New York Times. A new 65-mile highway section designed as an alternative to the Kabul-Jalalabad Highway has been slated for completion in April 2017, but progress on the projct has been slow and saddled with setbacks, Reuters reported in 2015.

9. Los Caracoles Pass, Chile

Los Caracoles Pass winds through the harsh terrain of the Andreas Mountains from the Andes on the way between Chile and Argentina. The road climbs to an elevation of almost 10,500 feet, and has no roadside safety barriers. Frequented by large trucks and covered in snow most of the year, the pass (also called "Snail's Pass" by locals) has some of the world's steepest slopes, called "switchbacks."

10. Kolyma Highway, Russia

The Kolyma Highway is a road through the Russian Far East, linking two regions of Russia, the Sakha Republic (or Yakutia) and Magadan Oblast. It is the most remote of all federal highways in Russia. The mostly unpaved road is extremely dangerous during the winter, because of heavy snow, the slippery ice, and an extremely reduced visibility. The area is incredibly inhospitable, it's only 62 miles from Oymyakon, known as the coldest city on earth. Kolyma is another highway with an eerie, haunting past. It is also known as the "Road of Bones," because the skeletons of the forced laborers who died during its construction were used in much of its foundations.

11. Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria

The spectacular views of Grossglockner mountain in Austria used to be only accessible to skilled alpinists, but since the opening of Grossglockner High Alpine Road in 1935, more and more visitors have been able to experience the stunning scenery. But driving this road is an experience on its own: a thrilling one for some, an especially scary one for others. The highest  mountain pass road in Austria, the road connects Bruck in the state of Salzburg with Heiligenblut in Carinthia. Humans have actually been crossing the Alps on a path that mainly follows this road for more than 3,500 years—Celts, Romans, gold diggers and galley slaves had to go through this strenuous and dangerous path.

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