Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge – Jiangsu, China

Located between Shanghai and Nanjing, the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is renowned as the longest bridge in the world.  Ten thousand people lent a hand in constructing the 102-mile-long bridge and the job took four years to complete. With China’s financial portfolio, spending $8.5 million on the bridge was not a problem. It officially opened in 2011 and functions as a high-speed extensive bridge transporting trains between  Shanghai and Nanjing. It rises 100 feet up above the ground and its suspension structure has been expertly designed to withstand natural disasters like earthquakes and typhoons.