This Is Real

Usually, when you hear something called a water bridge, you assume it’s a bridge over water, but that is not the case with this bridge. Also, it’s not an edited photo. This is the Magdeburg Water Bridge. It spans the Elbe River, connecting the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittellandkanal, and is almost 1,004 yards long.

The bridge was built in 2003 using 24,000 metric tons of steel and almost 89,000 cubic yards of concrete. The construction of the water link started as early as in the ’30s, but it was suspended till 1997 and was built as part of a unification project between East and West Germany.