Showing posts with the label Street

Woodmere Avenue: Britain’s Infamous Width Restriction Keeps Wrecking Cars

Dec 15, 2021

A clearance of seven feet should be wide enough for most vehicles to pass through, but apparently, not for some. As these videos reveal, man...

Prague’s Streets Paved With Jewish Gravestones

Aug 5, 2019

Millions of people walking through the beautiful cobbled streets in the Czech capital Prague are unaware that they are treading upon old gra...

Ffordd Pen Llech: The World’s New Steepest Street

Jul 27, 2019

A sleepy little seaside community in northwest Wales will soon find itself swamped by tourists. Just a few days ago, the Guinness World Reco...

The Iconic Gold Hill of Shaftesbury

Dec 3, 2014

Gold Hill, in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset, is a picturesque steep cobbled street. The street was made famous by ...

9 de Julio Avenue: The Widest Street in the World

Jun 22, 2012

9 de Julio Avenue (or Avenida 9 de Julio, in the local tongue) in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, is not just any street. Nine lanes wide,...

Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world

Jul 20, 2008

Located in the city of Dunedin, in southern New Zealand, the Baldwin Street has earned the distinction of being the steepest street in the w...