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A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

This dizzying span over the ancient Algerian city was once the highest suspension bridge in the world.

This colorful overpass is one of Bhutan's longest suspension bridges.

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The stoutest tree in the world.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

English parliaments were once convened by this ancient oak tree in the heart of Sherwood Forest.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.