You know those crazy scenes in movies where there's a car chase on a twisting, narrow mountain road with a multi-thousand-foot drop and no guardrail?
Well, here's the real life example. Check out these photos of the Yungas Road in Bolivia, which leads from the capital, La Paz, to the Yungas region. It was built in the 1930s by Paraguayan prisoners of war. In 1995, the Inter-American Development Bank declared this to be the most dangerous road in the world.
Each year, 200-300 people perish on a stretch of this road fewer than 50 miles long. A vehicle plunges off into the ravine about once every two weeks.
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