Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have a lot to answer for. Before Top Gear visited Romania, the Transfagarasan Highway was near enough a secret.

For the past 27 years, the island state of Tasmania has given itself over as playground to a rally quite unlike any other.

The are few places in the world where you can legally and safely exceed 200mph. Nardo is one of them.

This is one of the greatest mountain roads in Europe, and whether you’re cranking your pedals or pressing them to the metal, it’s one for the bucket list.

When the winter sports crowd (and the economists) have gone then Davos becomes a destination for drivers.

Top Gear once called the Stelvio Pass the world’s best road. So, if you’ve got a passion for four wheels or two, a pilgrimage is obligatory.

If there’s a surefire way to fall for New England in the fall, it’s a drive down the Kancamagus Highway.

There's a good reason Britain's car magazines and YouTubers head to Wales so often. The Black Mountain Pass over the Brecon Beacons ticks all the necessary boxes.

The engineers who blasted this road out of the Austrian mountainside clearly loved to drive.

Bond fans will recognise this from the movie Goldfinger, where 007 runs Tilly Masterson off the road.

No sooner have you changed up to third than you have to brake again

For telegenic twists and turns this road is hard to beat.

Whether you take days or weeks to drive it Iceland’s Route One will be seared on your memory forever.

Eight bridges span a series of small islands, some so low that you feel you’re skimming the sea, while fishermen catch cod from the side. Others a roller coaster ride into the sky and down again.

California 33 is a throwback to the 1950s. A time when roads had no guard rails. When the route flowed with the land rather than being blasted through it.

Few have any reason to visit, except for the pure thrill of the drive.

Climbing to a mighty 2,200 metres the views are either epic or non-existent as the road can get completely engulfed in cloud.

It’s a rock-crawling, axle-twisting grind through the High Sierras

It was a monumental feat of engineering, employing 18,000 men over an astonishingly short eight months, in some of the most inhospitable terrain the world has to offer.

There are more than a dozen memorials to those who have perished along the way.