When the Travel Channel listed the top ten bridges in the world it put the Sunshine Skyway Bridge at #3. (The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was #1, and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan was #2.) At just over 4 miles long the Sunshine Skyway Bridge connects St. Petersburg and Terra Ceia.
The bridge was featured in the The Punisher (2004).
I took the still photo above just before I drove over the bridge on Monday. It made me think of the bridge it replaced after a tanker hit it in 1980. That accident resulted in 35 people plunging to their death as cars and a bus fell into Tampa Bay. The St. Petersburg Times ran a super article by Jean Heller on the 20th anniversary of accident— The Day the Skyway Fell.