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

A gallery of faded glory by photographer Tom Salt

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.

Mrs Orcutt's 4.1-mile driveway was used as an illegal test track by car magazines and drag racers throughout the 1970s and 80s

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

They stand, noses down, rear wheels upended, tail fins pointing skywards towards Cadillac heaven.

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

Buried deep beneath the mountains between Laerdal and Aurland is the world’s longest road tunnel.

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.

The Lysebotn Road tests man and machine, tightening in places before rising to a series of plateaus with the road reaching out as far as the eye can see and gentle kinks littered between bursts of straight.