Vasco da Gama Bridge, Portugal - 56,381 feet: Lisbon's Vasco da Gama Bridge is the longest in Europe, spanning a total distance of 10.7 miles. Taking three years to complete, the bridge opened for traffic in 1998 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's discovery of the maritime route from Europe to India.
A type of wave that can travel through empty space as well as through matter is electromagnetic wave.
Mechanical waves are waves that require a medium in order to transport their energy from one location to another. Because mechanical waves rely on particle interaction in order to transport their energy, they cannot travel through regions of space that are void of particles.