Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

Following Victoria's coast, this grand highway stretches for several hundred kilometers, starting just southwest of Melbourne. Among its stunning sights are the "Twelve Apostles," the 20-million-year-old rocky remnants of limestone arches that rise up from the Southern Ocean. A commemorative statue was designed to mark the road's 75th anniversary—it depicts the WWI veterans who built the thoroughfare, with one of the sculpted men handing a drink bottle to another because, as Roger Grant, chairman of Great Ocean Road Marketing, said, "Building the road with pick and shovel would have been very hard work and it would have been thirsty work."

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