A shot taken of the New River Gorge Bridge from a light aircraft. The steel arch bridge sits 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, Fayetteville, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long the New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge and is now the third longest. The roadway crossing the New River Gorge Bridge at 876 feet (267 m) above the New River makes it one of the highest vehicular bridges in the world, and is currently the third highest in the United States. The bridge sits within the US National Park Service's New River Gorge National River area. West Virginia, USA
Fat cats adorn wooden wishing plaques at a shinto shrine in Tokyo. The plaques are known as Ema 絵馬, translated as 'picture horse', and are intended to bring luck to the person who hangs them. These plaques funnel a long tradition that started during the 8th century Nara period where people donated horses, seen as the “vehicles of gods”, to the shrines to assist with their prayer. Over the subsequent years due to the financial cost of horses, the tradition shifted first to pictures of horses on wood, and eventually to pictures of other animals. Tokyo, Japan.
Sometimes in life you have to take the road less traveled. An outback track, far western New South Wales, Australia.
