Mark Pack

Think staircases are just a burden to use when the lifts are broken? Think again as you look at these ten amazing staircases from around the world.

One I would add to the list, though it isn’t open to the public most of the year, is the Grand Shaft. It’s a very clever triple spiral staircase built on the Western Heights in Dover that is really three staircases in one, letting troops rush down from the top of a cliff to the bottom in order to defend Dover at treble the rate a normal staircase would have allowed.