Bridges

Four Medici Lions guard a heritage old stone bridge that was constructed in 1867.

Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.

This natural sandstone bridge hasn't been seen since the 1960s when Lake Powell covered it—until now.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Hidden behind an industrial area, this is one of the very few such transporter bridges in existence.

Cathedral-like Victorian vaults are hidden within this iconic bridge.

The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

On May 2, 1845, crowds gathered to watch a clown and four geese sail upstream in a bathtub. Then disaster struck.

Several bricks indicate the various flood levels this crossing has survived over the centuries.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

Wild seas have created two spectacular formations just a stone's throw away from each other.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.