Street Facts

The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.

While major thoroughfares and famous avenues in Japan may have names, the majority of residential streets do not. Instead, the Japanese addressing system relies on a hierarchical structure of districts, blocks, and building numbers for navigation.

The world's officially recognised steepest street is Baldwin Street, with a 35% gradient, in Dunedin, New Zealand.