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People tend to do crazy things when they're on vacation, and I'm not talking about getting drunk and ending up on a Girls Gone Wild video, I'm talking physically dangerous things. Maybe it's that thought that, "hey, I'm on vacation, nothing can happen to me" or something else. In any case, here are three videos of places you can go where danger lurks around every bend - and yet, more and more people are visiting them. So sit back, and hang on, for some wild rides!

Originally built in 1901, El Caminito del Rey (the King's little pathway), now serves as an approach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro near Álora in Málaga, Spain. Watch this guy walk it without any fear at all! And just in case the youtube video isn't as clear as you'd like, there's another, better on here.

At the top of Victoria Falls, in Zambia, Africa, there is a natural pool that you can swim in (when the water is low) called the "Devil's Pool". When the river flow is at a safe level, usually during the months of September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the falls within the pool without continuing over the edge and falling into the gorge; this is possible due to a natural rock wall just below the water and at the very edge of the falls that stops their progress despite the current. You can see other videos of it that are here and here that give you different views of the pool and the approach to it.

In Bolivia there lies the "Road of Death", which has been called the most dangerous road in the world. It is also called the North Yungas Road (also Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Camino de las Yungas, El Camino de la Muerte, etc. There are drop-offs of 2,000 feet, no guardrails, traffic, fog, mud, rain, and local road rules specify that the downhill driver never has the right of way and must move to the outer edge of the road. So of course, someone had to start a mountain biking tour service up!

In Norway, one of the most famous rocks is the Kjeragbolten, which is a boulder wedged in a mountain crevice in the Kjerag mountains in Norway. The name means Kjerag Boulder or Bolt. Below the bolder is a sheer drop of about 3200 feet (1000 meters) to Lysefjorden, below. You can see another video here.

So if you're looking for an adrenaline rush on vacation, check out these places - you'll be glad you did!

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