23 Unique Staircases That Will Help You Burn Tons of Calories
Jun 18, 2014 17:51
Here's one easy way to take 10,000 steps daily. Walk up any one of these staircases. We won't guarantee you'll enjoy doing that, but we can at least be sure you'll marvel at their magnificence. Just check them out! They aren't your normal-everyday staircase.
1. Iowa State Law Library
2. Roche Residence in France
3. Infinite staircase by artist Olafur Eliasson at the KPMG building in Munich, Germany
4. Co4lorful stairs at the School of Arts in Saint Herblain, France
5. Staircase at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan
6. Stairs to the top of the Rock of Guatapé
7. The Longchamp store in New York City
8. Cascading stairs at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland created by Charles Jencks
9. The rainbow staircase in Findikli, Turkey
10. Spiral glass staircase around a fish tank in Scotland
11. Staircase at the Natural History Museum in London
12. Chand Baori stepwell in India
13. Double spiral stairs at the Vatican Museum
14. Stairs in a Portuguese Bookstore
15. In 1906 when the store first opened
16. Melk Abbey in Austria
17. Most likely the longest mosaic stairs in San Francisc
18. Sculpture that looks like you can walk into the sky by artist David McCracken in Australia
19. Groninger Museum in the Netherlands
20. Ice Hotel stairs
21. In Edinburgh, the Dovecot Studio specializes in tapestries and has these woven stairs
22. A walking roller coaster in Germany
23. Spiral stairs at the Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal
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