London Bridge was falling down (falling down, falling down)

In the sixties of the last century the 1831 London Bridge needed replacing: too much traffic, existing structure not strong enough anymore.
Someone suggested they'd sell the old Fair Lady and lo and behold, there was a buyer for it: Robert McCulloch, the founder of Lake Havasu City and the chairman of McCulloch Oil Corporation.

'The founder of Lake Havasu City'.
Lake Havasu City is a place designed and built in 1964, by this McCulloch. He purchased the bridge to serve as a tourist attraction to his retirement real estate development, which at that time was far from the usual tourist track.
The idea worked.
The bridge, bought in 1967, opened to the public in 1971 and from all over the world people flocked to the Arizona desert to see the London Bridge spanning an artificial lake.

Picture a very modern, sub-tropical resort with retired couples, surf dudes and bikini-clad girls, a broad river, a nice lake, a huge desert surrounding it, blazing heat and the stone structure of a century old English bridge.

Yes, we didn't believe this story either. But it's true. It's not a replica. It's bloody real. And, even when seeing it with your own eyes, unbelievable!