One road, two countries
Imagine crossing from one side of the road to the other only to realize that you’ve walked over from one country to another! This is the case if you’re on Rue Canusa in Canada… or is it the USA? It really depends on which side you are standing. The only thing that separates the two countries is a yellow strip in the middle. The Haskell Opera House is located on this road and the entrance is in USA, but the stage is in Canada! Fun, huh?
Snake alley – a driver’s nightmare
Welcome to the world’s crookedest street – Snake Alley in Iowa – a proud winner of a spot in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! This is (thankfully!) a one way street with five half curves and two quarter curves. You need nerves of steel if you dare to drive a car through this street. The turns are sharp, really sharp. You’ll have to make a total of 1100 degrees of turning by the time you exit Snake alley at a breathtaking speed of about 2-3 km per hour. Whew!
A riot of colours
It isn’t often that you get to walk along a street and be able to feel like you are in a gallery full of crazy art. Hosier Street in Melbourne is packed full of street art scenes by artists from around the world.Here, you can feast on art in every imaginable genre and form- caetoons,sketches,stencils,graffiti and so much more. This street is alive in the sense that the artwork continues to evolve and inspire people who walk by.
A street on a diet
Spreuerhofstraße in Germany, also registered as City Street Number 77, is one of its kind. You might as well forget trying to pass through this street if you’ve stuffed yourself with pretzels and fries. The widest portion of the street is a generous 50 centimetres, tapering down to 31 centimetres at its narrowest. Constructed in 1727 after a city fire, it makes one wonder how thin the people were back then to be able to use this street comfortably.
The street that never was
Is it a street? Is it a railway station? Is it a busy marketplace? It’s Maeklong Market Railway – and this busy street in Thailand is a bit of all of these. One minute you’ll be haggling with a roadside seller about the price of fresh lobster, the next minute you hear a train’s horn and scramble! Likewise, the sellers get busy shifting their wares to the edge to let the train pass with only a few inches gap between the train and the stalls. For the locals, this is probably a mundane event but imagine the thrill a first-time visitor can experience here!
Unforgettable passage
‘Forgotten Songs’ is an installation fitted by artist Michael Hill on Angel Street, Sydney. In this small lane, you get to admire artistically placed empty birdcages hanging from above while also hearing the sound of one among fifty bird species. The soundtrack keeps changing through the day. If you’re an expert in bird songs, you can easily tell when it is the call of a tawny owl and when it is a melody of a white-throated nightjar!
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