World's Most Beautiful Bridges

You'll cross these bridges when you come to them. From an ancient Iranian meeting place to a modern French viaduct, these bridges are stunning in their own way.

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Harbour Bridge, Sydney
Without the Opera House in the background, Sydney's Harbour Bridge isn't as recognizable. But the steel-arch bridge is the tallest of its kind, at 440 feet.


World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Harbour Bridge, Sydney

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Stari Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The 16th-century "Old Bridge," or Stari Most, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was rebuilt in 2004 from its own rubble. Do like the locals have been doing for centuries and take a 66-foot dive from its central arch into the Neretva River below.

  

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Stari Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina 

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Iron Bridge, England

The 18th-century Iron Bridge in the West Midlands region of central England was the first arched bridge to be built of cast iron. The designer, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, had no precedent to go on, so he based the design on carpentry techniques.

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Iron Bridge, England

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Navajo Bridge, Arizona

Navajo Bridge is a spandrel arch bridge in Arizona's Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 467 feet above Marble Canyon and the Colorado River. Traffic became too much for the original, so a new, nearly identical bridge was opened in 1995, and the older bridge became pedestrian-only.

 World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Navajo Bridge, Arizona

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Atlantic Road, Norway

Drive this graceful five-and-a-half-mile stretch of concrete bridges in Norway, and you'll quickly see why the Atlantic Road was voted the country's Construction of the Century. Connecting small islands, the eight successive bridges twist and swell in mind-boggling fashion.

  Atlantic Road, Norway

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Khaju Bridge, Iran

Located in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, Khaju Bridge is a two-level brick-and-stone pedestrian bridge that has been a meeting point for locals for more than 350 years. The 435-foot-long, low-lying Khaju is highlighted by 23 Islamic arches.

  

Khaju Bridge, Iran

World's Most Beautiful Bridges: Millau Viaduct, France

At 62 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower, the 1,125-foot Millau Viaduct in France is the tallest bridge of its kind in the world.

Millau Viaduct, France