Before seafaring and air travel took over, we had bridges to connect us all. In many ways, they’ve helped shape communities and countries and played a significant part in our history. And among these ...

Bridges all around the world, from West Virginia’s New River Gorge to Peru’s Q’eswachaka give every traveler an opportunity to connect and explore. In fact, this year, the Q’eswachaka quite literally ...

See 15 superbly suspended structures from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Built in 1917-1919 ...

When I think of cities with famous bridges, Los Angeles doesn’t immediately come to mind. New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge are the obvious ones that come to mind, ...

Beauty prizes for the handsomest U.S. bridges built last year were distributed last week by the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. The prize for the loveliest bridge costing over ...

We’ve got a serious weakness for spectacular railway bridges. Nothing beats rumbling across valleys and rivers while soaking ...

And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced . . . (How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!) . . . Hart Crane (1930). To engineers and architects, Hart Crane’s rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an ...

People want to continue to walk back and look at it and be able to say, ‘That’s the same bridge that I was at 40 years ago ...

Bridges carry us across the obstacles in our path with such ease that we forget they even exist. Streams, railroads and chasms fade into the background and escape our notice as we rush about our ...