Attraction Type: Bridge

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Greig Street Bridge

August 25, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
The Greig Street Bridge is a suspension bridge across the River Ness in Inverness and is open only to pedestrians. Dating 1880-81 and built by the civil engineer C. Manners in conjunction with the Rose Street Foundry for a cost of £1,400, it is composed of two side spans of 67 feet and a central span of 201 feet. Its cables were replaced in 1952, and the anchorages were replaced in 1989.
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Bridge of Remembrance

August 25, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
The Bridge of Remembrance in Christchurch, New Zealand, is dedicated to as a memorial to those who participated in World War I and World War II as well as conflicts in Borneo, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam. The Cashel Street bridge over the Avon River initially opened in 1873. Mrs. Wyn Irwin is credited with raising the idea for a memorial atop the bridge in a July 24, 1919, letter to The Press on 24 July
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Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

August 25, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
When it opened in 1964, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (previously misspelled as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge) was the world’s longest suspension span. The bridge was named after Giovanni da Verrazano. In 1524, he became the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor. Its 693-foot-tall towers are 1 5/8 inches farther apart at their tops than at their bases because the 4,260-foot-long required engineers to take into the account curvature of the Earth. Each tower weighs
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Brooklyn Bridge

August 25, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
The Brooklyn Bridge is perhaps the most famous bridge in the United States. The hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge spans the East River and was completed in 1883 to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn. The bridge was originally known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the East River Bridge.
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Waco Suspension Bridge

August 23, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
The Waco Suspension Bridge opened to traffic in January 1870, making it roughly 13 years older than the more famous Brooklyn Bridge. The 475-foot-long bridge forever changed travel in the area. Built at an estimated cost of roughly $141,000 (estimates vary) and designed by Thomas M. Griffith, the bridge was the first major suspension bridge in the state of Texas.
Concord Covered Bridge

Concord Covered Bridge

August 23, 2026 Sightseers’ Delight
The Concord Covered Bridge over Nickajack Creek was built in 1872 to replace an earlier bridge destroyed during the Civil War. The one-lane bridge, also known as Nickajack Creek Covered Bridge, is more than 130 feet long and 16 feet wide and is a part of the Covered Bridge Historic District, so named for the bridge. An earlier bridge was built in the area in 1848, but troops under Union Gen. William T. Sherman burned