10 Mind Blowing Bridges You Didn’t Know Were Real
1- Iya Valley Vine Bridges, Japan:
This Vine Bridge is located in Tokushima, over the Iya-gawa River. Standing at 148 feet long and 46 feet high it remains one of Japans most scariest bridge to date.
2- Canopy Walk, Ghana
This bridge is located in Kakum National Park at about 100 feet above the forest floor, with it only being a foot wide, you’ll need a brave heart to cross this bridge for sure.
3- Millau Viaduct, France
When driving on the bridge you can look down into the clouds! This bridge which is taller that the Eiffel Tower at the highest point is the world’s tallest vehicular bridge!
4- Volgograd Bridge, Russia
Crossing this bridge is considered such an accomplishment that the 34 people who have done it created their own Facebook page. The old railway bridge is only 50 feet above the water, so what makes it scary? it’s barley wide enough for one car and is covered with ice for most of the year and has no railings to catch your fall.
5- Road Between Tierradentro to La Plata, Colombia
The mountain road is full of bamboo bridges, with water rushing just inches below makes it the one of the scariest bridges of all time.
6- Cikurutug Bridge, Indonesia
After enjoying the beautiful views on your three-hour trip to Argo Gede the ride turns from scenic to scary once you get to the Cikurutug Bridge. This train slid off its tracks in 2002, though nobody was hurt, authorities have elevated security precautions to protect their passenger’s safety since the accident.
7- Captain William Moore Bridge, Alaska
The bridge that’s only anchored securely at one end by the engineers that built it, do to the fact that it crosses an active earthquake fault, so when the ground below shifts, the bridge isn’t torn apart is located along the South Klondike Highway near Skagway.
8- U Pain Bridge, Myanmar
This 3/4-mile-long teak bridge was built more than 200 years ago. More than 1,000 wooden posts (read: logs)—with roughly four or five feet between each—hold it up.
9- Seven Mile Bridge, Florida
This bridge located in the Florida Keys makes it a prime target for the region’s many hurricanes. This Bridge connects the Middle and Lower Keys.
10- Hussaini Hanging Bridge, Pakistan
This bridge is considered to be the world’s most harrowing suspension bridges, it is located in the village of Hussaini in Northern Pakistan, crossing the Hunza River.