But most major road trip-planning tools, such as AAA, Google Maps and Mapquest, bypass these inspiring sights, assuming that most travellers only want the fastest route between points A and B.

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Glacier Girl was part of a squadron of six P-38s and two B-17s en route to Iceland in 1942 when bad weather forced them to crash-land on a glacier in Greenland.

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Each marathon course was approximately twenty-five miles, believed to be the length of the route from Marathon to Athens run by Pheidippides in 490 B.

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In addition to the frontline duties in Helmand, since Christmas, B Company has been providing security for the rebuilding of the Highway 1 route, a road said to be vital to communications links across Afghanistan.

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