The Frankford Avenue Bridge is the first known stone arch built in the United States and probably the oldest bridge in the country.
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One of the hallmarks of Pittsburgh's landscape is the Smithfield Street Bridge spanning the length of the Monongahela River and connecting Smithfield Street downtown to Station Square. Built in 1881, it's considered the second oldest steel bridge in the United States.
Although the Arkadiko Bridge may be the oldest bridge still in use in Europe, it is not the only one of its kind in the area. In the broader vicinity, there are four known Mycenaean corbel arch bridges near Arkadiko, all of which belong to the same highway between the cities of Epidaurus and Mycenae.
The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Opened in 1781, it was the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron.
Union Bridge (England/Scotland, 1820), the longest span (137 m) from 1820 to 1826. The oldest suspension bridge in the world still carrying road traffic.
London Bridge is the oldest river crossing in London, bringing river and road traffic together. It was rebuilt multiple times, from timber to stone and concrete and steel. London Bridge was actually the sole crossing of the Thames until the construction of Putney Bridge in 1729.
The oldest known bridge is the Kazarma Bridge or Arkadiko Bridge, located in Argolida, in the Peloponnese, Greece, whose construction dates back to the Mycenaean period, around 1300 BC.
Once this was completed, the old bridge was quickly dismantled and lost into the annals of history. There are, in fact, a few lasting remnants of the old London Bridge, and one of which is built into the tower of St Magnus the Marytr's Church on Lower Thames Street.