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The devil's tanning booth

For some reason, the Guiness Book of World Records didn't count England's Tarr Steps as an actual bridge when it elected Caravan Bridge as the "oldest bridge still in use." According to Atlas Obscura, the Tarr Steps might predate the Caravan Bridge by a century or two, though it's impossible to say when exactly it was built since there isn't any record of its construction. Perhaps the missing date-time stamp is what kept it out of the record books. The Tarr Steps, which crosses the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, is a "clapper bridge" — it's made of 17 flat stone slabs carefully arranged end to end and supported by stacks of smaller stones. Each of the flat slabs weighs up to 2 tons, so of course it was built by aliens. Not really, but it is hard to imagine how ancient people moved and arranged stones that big. So hard, in fact, that there's even a local legend that the devil built the bridge as a place to go sunbathing, which is patently ridiculous since everyone knows the sun never comes out in England.

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