Living in London and owning a Caterham Seven means that getting to a good road to enjoy it takes some work. But no pain no gain. So in a brief interlude between lockdowns Nik Berg and son Max embraced the effort and sought out seven of the mainland’s most amazing roads in just seven days.

Aston Martin’s Sheffield-born chief designer Marek Reichman lives by a mantra of ‘find the beauty’, so that’s exactly what Dan Trent searched for in his native Yorkshire.

Like Japan’s Irohazka Road, the Kaunertal Glacier road in Austria was once a pilgrimage route. Taking true believers from Kalternbrunn to Melagg in the Southern Tyrol the road was arduous and tested not just faith but endurance.

There can be few more iconic road trips than a run down through California on the Pacific Coast Highway. The PCH or Highway One is one of the best ocean drives in the world and one to be savoured.

New Caledonia is a little slice of France that’s closer to Australia than the motherland. Explore this tropical paradise by car and you’ll encounter lush forests, turtle beaches and, er, boulangeries.

Lapland is a winter wonderland that will thrill kids from one to 92 (as Nat King Cole liked to sing) with reindeer, elves and snowy skids all within easy reach of Rovaniemi.

Endless views to the horizon, the smell of salt spray in the air and asphalt that twists and turns with the coastline. There’s nothing quite like an ocean drive. Here are ten of Detour’s favourite seaside sojourns.

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flats dwarf those at Bonneville in Utah. It’s not a place for speed freaks, but rather for adventure lovers seeking to find their place in this wide world.

Every road trips needs a playlist – unless you happen to be driving on one of the world’s musical roads.

PJ O’Rourke wrote that the fastest car in the world is a hire car. Should you happen to holiday in Crete and take the road from Anopolis to Hora Sfakion, you’ll soon see what he meant.

You don’t have to leave Europe for a tortuous, undulating desert drive. Southern Spain’s barren beauty is the setting of the Puerto de Velefique, a sensational mountain road with a bewildering array of corners, climbing through the parched landscape.

Billed as “America’s Favorite (sic) Drive” the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches over 400 miles from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

La belle France is rich in racing history and marvellous mountainous topography. Here are five fantastic road trips that every petrolhead should take for a taste of both.

The fast and flowing roads of Salisbury Plain come with an added frisson of danger. Stray off them and you may find yourself in the middle of a war game with all-too-real consequences.

In August 2020 6,000 tonnes of “car sized” rocks fell and blocked the A83 between Inverary and Crianlarich. Yet, amazingly, by the standards of The Rest and Be Thankful road, this was a relatively small disruption.

Norway, land of fabulous fjords and majestic mountains, is a driver’s delight thanks to a road network that zigs and zags along its coast and sends switchbacks up its peaks.

“Hang on lads, I’ve got an idea.” Take a drive up the stunning Colle de Nivolet and you’ll be following in the wheeltracks of Michael Caine.

From horrifying hitch-hikers to phantom horsemen, America’s roads are rife with haunting stories. Here are five drives for wannabe Ghostbusters to seek out and the rest of us to avoid.

Atlantic Highway is something of an exaggeration. The A39 from Porlock to Barnstaple is a winding single carriageway, but it most definitely delivers on the Atlantic part of its name, with stunning views across the ocean.

First a word of caution. Not about the trolls that give this incredible road its name, but about the tourists who flock to drive it. The Trollstigen (Troll’s tongue) road is the most popular tourist drive in Norway with more than half a million visitors each summer.