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Beautiful, well engineered infrastructure you haven't seen before - a thread🧵👇

1. The Banff Wildlife Crossing Project in Alberta, Canada, is essentially a bridge for animals & has reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80%🇨🇦 Image
2. The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, a rotating boat lift that opened in 2002. It connected the Forth and Clyde canal to the Union canal for the first time since the 1930s and is the only one if its kind in the whole world.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
3. Crab Overpass on Christmas Island, where more than 40 million red crabs migrate every year🇨🇽 Image
4. Amager Bakke ski resort in Copenhagen is also a waste-to-energy plant🇩🇰 Image
5. Cell phone tower disguised as a cactus in Arizona🇺🇸 Image
6. Heatherwick Rolling Bridge, London, England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
7. Yanweizhou park was designed to flood during the monsoon season to help prevent the city of Jinhua, China from flooding🇨🇳 Image
8. The Gwangyang Steel Works in Gwangyang, South Korea is the largest facility of its kind in the world. It outputs an average of 18 million tons of steel per year, producing parts for bridges and other infrastructure, cars, refrigerators, and more.🇰🇷 Image
9. Roads through an archipelago in Værlandet, Norway🇳🇴 Image
10. Inside the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore🇸🇬 Image
11. Bike path through a lake in Belgium🇧🇪
12. Boston, MA moved a highway underground in ~15 years🇺🇸 Image
13. Jacksonville, Florida Spiral Interchange🇺🇸 Image
14. Bharati Research Station of India in Antarctica🇦🇶🇮🇳 Image
15. The Friedrich Bayer Bridge in Sao Paulo, Brazil🇧🇷 Image
16. Land Bridge in the Netherlands🇳🇱 Image
17. Sart Canal Bridge in Belgium🇧🇪 Image
18. Panlong Road in China🇨🇳 Image
19. The old Stockholm Telephone Tower connected more than 5,500 telephone lines🇸🇪 Image
20. An oil rig before being sunk Image
21. Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado🇺🇸 Image
22. Veluwemeer Aqueduct, The Netherlands🇳🇱 Image
23. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales for pedestrians and narrow boats🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Image
24. Railway bridge over Nairobi National Park in Kenya🇰🇪
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25. At nearly 24 miles long, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana stands as the longest continuous bridge over water in the world🇺🇸 Image
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