Rivers

The river that gave its name to a 1960s musical movement has a rather inauspicious starting point in town outside of Manchester.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

Amid rushing rapids, this small bit of land is an important First Nations site on border between Canada and the United States.

This 15th-century Ottoman bridge was modified to keep up with the changing course of the river Erenik.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

A neat pile of shale marks an early English trip to the Yarra River.

Since Tokyo's Kiyosu Bridge was inspired by a historic bridge that crossed over the Rhine, this viewing spot is known as a "view of Cologne."

A natural wonder with mythological ties to the local Ainu tradition.

The inhabitants of the world’s largest wetland have learned to navigate its dramatic seasonal changes.

One of the largest early 20th-century bridges in Sudan.

The remains of a failed attempt to regulate Mitchell River.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

A ferry has operated across the River Hamble for around 500 years, but its distinctive bubblegum pink is a more recent addition.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.