This story originally appeared in the July 2014 issue of mental_floss magazine. Subscribe to our print edition here, and our iPad edition here. From ancient mud bricks to salty beet juice, roads have ...

HYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is actively considering documenting and capturing the detailed history of roads through oblique cameras within its limits to avoid ...

Q: Has road striping paint changed? When I’m driving at night and in the rain it’s tough to see the lines. It doesn’t seem as reflective as it used to be. A: You’re probably not looking for a history ...

Road names can be peculiar and puzzling, especially if the meaning behind it is unknown. Some seem random and outlandish, others may make perfect sense. In Collier County, many streets are named after ...

If you’ve ever driven up to Central or Northern California, you’ve most likely taken the Grapevine, the 40-mile stretch of the 5 Freeway between Castaic and Kern County. But before it was the ...

Early June 1864 was a bleak time for Washington and the Union cause. What began that spring as a determined Federalist push to crush the Confederacy was moving at a grinding, bloody pace. In Virginia, ...