There is a highway in Louisiana that you can ride on for 24 miles (39 kilometers) and see nothing but water on both sides. It goes right across the middle of Lake Pontchartrain, the largest lake in...
LINKS TO LAND
When yon travel from place to place and rivers and lakes get in the way, you can go across by boat, or go around them, or go over a bridge. People build bridges to make it easier to travel from place...
WHERE OCEANS MEET
> What's the shortest sea route between New York City and San Francisco? > Through the Panama Canal! The locks of the Panama Canal let water in or out to raise or lower ships. Before the canal was...
BY CAMEL, BY CAR, BY TRAIN
There's a special road for camels, and a special road for cars, and a special road for trains, and they all go through the Khyber Pass in West Pakistan. The Khyber Pass connects Pakistan and...
BUILDING A TUNNEL
> Workers of France and Italy finished building the Frejus Tunnel in > 1871. You can dig a little tunnel with your hands, or with a spoon, or with a shovel. But how would you dig a tunnel through a...
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
> "London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, > > London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady. The London Bridge that was forever \"falling down" in the nursery rhyme was built of...
CITY OF CANALS
In Venice, Italy, the streets are canals. So instead of seeing cars, you can see flat-bottomed boats called gondolas. Venice is built on a cluster of small mud islands. The canals twist around the...
DONNER PASS
"California or Bust!" That's what some of the early pioneers shouted as they traveled westward in wagon trains. The pioneers had to find a pass through a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada...
WHERE NATURE GETS IN THE WAY
What happens when you want to get to the other side of a mountain, when you can't climb it? How do you get to the other side of a lake or a river, when you don't have a boat? How do you get a boat...
