They did that with the old London Bridge (now in Lake Havasu, which is in the U.S.). They literally moved its pieces across the world and re-constituted it, though this bridge is not quite as nice looking as the newer one in London.
Creative Commons via Wikimedia.com by Ken Lund.
Curious when people will get bored of phones and start to produce real art in terms of physical buildings and structures again. Like the photo above. Even if let's say we used robots to build it I don't think we would use as much heart and passion to beat the old structures that could take decades to finish. Talk about a deep level of satisfaction they must have felt finishing a structure like this! But nothing beats the European Churches... Just wow!
It's nice to learn this. I've never read about it. We learn something new everyday when we are at the right blog.
But I'm just wondering why they had to take that trouble. Couldn't all the engineers in the U.S just replicate the structure in their homeland? Or is there any particular significance of having to literally move the original bridge to the U.S? I'd like to know.
It does seem like too much trouble and work. They must have believed it would be a major tourist attraction. People visit it, but it can't be as popular as they had hoped when they moved the whole thing.