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Most Challenging Traffic Signs Ever (PHOTOS)

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When you visit a new country, you're not allowed to vote. You can't cash a personal check. Your
library card isn't valid. Yet they let you drive. They let you get behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle and zip around anywhere you please. Somehow we are expected to navigate the road and pick up the traffic nuances - perhaps even adjust to a steering wheel on the opposite side of the car while driving on the opposite side of the road - before making their first lane change. If that isn't demanding enough, there are the signs to contend with, like these classics from the Signspotting book series. Photographed an insane traffic sign during your travels or on the way to work? Send it in at www.signspotting.com. And don't miss the free iphone/ipad app

Most Challenging Traffic Signs Ever
Traffic light from hell(01 of07)
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At least you know where you stand... or sit, idling in park for ever.
Where: Florida, USA
Credit: Richard Gaebler
Hotel California of roads(02 of07)
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You can't say you weren't duly warned.
Where: Commerce City, Colorado, USA
Credit: John McLaughlin
It's a round-and-roundabout(03 of07)
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What happens when they let MC Escher design the driver's exam.
Where: Leiden-Haarlem Canal, The Netherlands
Credit: Donald Haslett
Good luck!(04 of07)
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Honey, looks like we're going to be here for a while.Where: Tokyo, Japan Credit: Heather Cook .
Extreme urban driving(05 of07)
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No inverted U-TurnsWhere: Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA Credit: Larry Holmen
Try the insane lane(06 of07)
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Presumably that text is Chinese for 'Go ahead, make a left turn from the right lane... we dare you.'
Where: Guangzhou, China
Credit: Lynn Ihlenfeldt
Directionally challenged(07 of07)
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Oh really, you couldn't find it with a map and a compass?
Where: Arizona, USA
Credit: Jim Tanner

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