There is something weird and mysterious about stairways that don't go anywhere, and yet they're surprisingly common: inside and outside old buildings, among demolished walls, in big cities and small villages, or in artists' imaginations. They get your mind going, spurring you to imagine secret places and invisible doors. Try climbing the next one you encounter. Or just imagine climbing these.
1. Green stairs to nowhere, University of Vermont campus, USA
Photo: zappowbang
2. University of Cincinnati, USA
Photo: srecd
3. Ocean stairs, San Sebastian, Spain
Photo: Lauren Manning
4. Centre of the World, Felicity, California, USA (salvaged from
the Eiffel Tower in 1989)
5. Knaresborough, Yorkshire, Great Britain
Photo: SFB579 :)
6. One of the famous stairs of Malta
Photo: Mads Johansen
7. Galveston, Texas, USA
Photo: moleratsgotnofur
8. Waiting in Whitby, Great Britain
Photo: gregwake
9. Wooden staircase of Tors Cove, Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada
Photo: ffreshness
10. Ancient stairs carved into rock, Petra, Jordan
Photo: Neil and Kathy Carey
11. Leicester, Great Britain
Photo: karlos of syston
12. Stairway on a house, Offenbach Marktplatz,
Frankfurt, Germany
Photo: vollefolklore
13. Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
Photo: aquababe
14. Floating stairway over the Hudson River, New York, USA
Photo: twinxamot
15. Staircase of a demolished house. Looks like a dinosaur.
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Photo: mikelietz
16. An old brewhouse, Philadelphia, USA
Photo: fish2000
17. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Photo: Andrea Schwartz
18. Stairs on the bank of the River Danube, Budapest, Hungary
Photo: Attila Nagy/Gizmodo
19. Michel De Broin's mind bending sculpture: 'Révolutions'.
Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, Montreal, Canada
Photo: Evelyne Awaad/art_inthecity
20. Staircase sculpture at the KPMG Building in Munich,
Germany by Olafur Eliasson, entitled 'Rewriting'
Photo: Alaskan Dude
21. 'Winding stairs' monument by Rudi van de Winton,
dedicated to those who lost their lives in a 1977 air disaster.
Tenerife, Spain
Photo: Arturo Rodriguez/AP
22. 'Crouching Tiger and Turtle, Magic Mountain', by
sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter in Duisburg, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Photo: Funny-Leo
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