30 Confusing Stair Designs That Make No Sense at All

We build things to make life easier, and stairs are a simple part of that. But some stairs break every rule of logic and basic safety. These designs are so confusing that you can’t help but wonder why they were ever built.

The DeathStairs Reddit community, with over 32K members, collects the most puzzling and impractical staircases from around the world. Scroll down and imagine how you’d feel if you had to climb one of these bizarre designs.

#1 Staying at the inlaws

#2 Stairs in my friend’s flat.

#3 My sisters landlord wanted to improve the accessibility, so added these planks

#4 There’s nothing like relaxing in bed…

#5 No room for a staircase

#6 These glass stairs my dad was faced with at work

#7 Not my picture but thought it belonged here

#8 I hate going to the theater

#9 A quick slip to the beach

#10 New floors at my job

#11 AirBnB insanity

#12 Literally called the Stair of Death in Peru

#13 This belongs here

#14 The less snowy bits are glazed over

#15 I’m sure they are fine…

#16 This occurs every winter at my hometown.. 💀The sing says no winter upkeep and yes they lead strait to river bank

#17 Just to smoke, with my broken ankle I have to traverse this nonsense

#18 “Honey, I installed the new stairs!”

#19 Curved, yet rhomboidal

#20 Death by Windex

#21 Those are stairs

#22 To the attic of a house built in 1902

#23 Stairs at my hostel

#24 Weird perspective?

#25 stairs

#26 The last step…

#27 Hmmm this doesn’t look right

#28 May be I won’t die, immediately

#29 Unique

#30 Does the tape prevent it from being deadly?