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There are roads just like this and more all over rural America. This stretch of curvy road is apparently on State Highway 42 in Wisconsin someplace. It is quite a wiggly stretch, but I suspect the perspective has been intentionally foreshortened here to make it look even more extreme than it is.
Similar camera field of view tomfoolery results in infamous images like this one...
...Where traffic appears to be driving up a sheer wall.
Viewed from the side the bridge in question is still pretty steep, but looks considerably more tame.
A sufficiently large zoom compresses space to make things appear closer than they are. That's how photographers make the moon look gigantic on a vista. Add that along with extremely small aperture will create a look as if things are close and totally within focus to give a surreal look. The focal distance trick only really works if you have close foreground though.
Still seems like that road could have been paved straight down the middle.
Possibly not. It's on a narrow spit of land that sticks out into Lake Michigan. It's probably as meandering as it is to stay on the thickest plots of dirt, to prevent sinking into the lakebed.
There are various engineering solutions that could overcome this, for sure, but they're all expensive.