Q’eswachaka Rope Bridge in Peru

We’ve all heard about weaving things like baskets and mats, but have you ever heard of a handwoven bridge? Strange, right? Many years before humans discovered the power of steel and concrete, we used stiff ropes instead. The Q’eswachaka rope bridge is one of the world’s only surviving handwoven ones that local tribes built hundreds of years ago using woven grasses in a long-lost Inca way.

Though its antiquated design doesn’t guarantee the utmost safety, anyone who’s lucky and brave enough will cross to the other side. The woven straw crossing is 118 feet long and hangs 60 feet above the canyon’s rushing river.