This spectacular road in Tianmen Mountain National Park is as beautiful as it is deadly. Snaking around Tianmen Mountain (Heaven Gate Mountain) for seven miles (11.2km), it boasts 99 nerve-wracking bends as well as plenty of precipitous drops. Unsurprisingly, driving up the hair-raising track, which is also called Tian Men Shan Big Gate road, in China's Hunan Province, has become a big tourist draw.

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