Rivers

River raft through rural Colombia’s ancient rock formations, pristine landscapes, and towering waterfalls.

At the site of the most dangerous crossings on the Oregon Trail, a museum explores the complex history of westward migration in America.

One of the oldest suspension bridges in the world blends in perfectly with a medieval castle.

One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.

The oldest standing building on Merseyside is special for its rich history as a Benedictine monastery and its unique connection to the origins of the Mersey Ferry.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.

A beloved statue of a diving woman in Perth’s Swan River is frequently dressed up in costumes for special occasions.

An adorable intake tower with a “witch hat” stands in the Edo River.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

The predecessor to this bridge was depicted in a famous Japanese woodcut print that influenced Van Gogh.

Take a ferry across the Paraíba river in one of these 1980s bus-turned-boats.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

This historic suspension bridge is one of three remaining swinging bridges in Michigan, and one of the few swinging bridges left in North America.