10. Ojuela Bridge, Puente de
Located in Mexico’s Durango
Founded in 1898
Price range: $30–40,000*
Many times, the Puente de Ojuela Bridge appears in lists of the “Most Dangerous Bridges” in the world. Constructed in the late 1800s by John A. Roebling Sons & Co., a New York company, the bridge is undoubtedly peculiar. Wilhelm Hildenbrand was its designer. Situated in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, it led to the deserted Ojuela Goldmine mining village.
Bridge at Puente de Ojuela, Wikimedia.org/Miryam Zarzar
Before being renovated as a tourist destination in the early 1990s, the 1,870-foot-long Puente de Ojuela sat abandoned for over a century—and, some online sleuths claim, haunted. The pedestrian exclusively uses the bridge. On the bridge, there are two plaques honoring “the people who worked in…the mineral town.”
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