27 Stair Designs That Will Hurt Your Brain And Break Your Neck

Stairs, like ceilings and doors, are a basic design feature of most buildings. And yet, somehow there are designers out there who still manage to mess them up… sometimes in spectacular fashion. Whether it’s a visually confusing layout that makes you unsure where to step or a geometry-defying design straight out of MC Escher’s wastebasket, these god-awful stair design fails will make you shake your head or break your neck. 

1. This invisible kicker

2. This visual mess

3. This shop class-looking booby trap

4. This 45 degree nonsense

5. This step that isn’t a step

6. This plaid-patterned death trap

7. This actual Escher come to life

8. This top of the stairs speed bump

9. This dystopian holo-staircase

10. This waste of concrete