15+ Staircases that no one should climb: 'The stairs... shake when I walk on them. Fun!'

These stairs should've never made it past the blueprint phase, yet somehow, they're set in stone (and wood, and ceramic) and ready to trip up anyone who walks on them!

A lot of kids are afraid of stairs. So are many dogs. It doesn't take much to overcome this fear — you either practice until you get used to it, or if you're a small child, you sit down and sort of slide down. Most adults aren't especially fearful of staircases, so when you see one that strikes fear in your heart, you remember it for a long time! 

I used to have relatives who had a home that was like 4 stories tall, and then had a lovely roof where you could go outside and see the Philadelphia skyline. Later, they added another rooftop deck with a narrow, winding staircase, much like the one in the first photo here. While it was all well and good to climb up this staircase, and it was wonderful to chat and watch the sunset on the second rooftop deck, going down was truly frightful and nightmarish. You were suddenly staring down about 6 floors, looking right down into the neighbor's garden from a frightful height, and the only thing stopping you from tumbling down was this flimsy little spiral staircase. It sends a shudder down my spine just thinking about it! That staircase, and many of the ones here, are like something out of a bad dream — you need to get somewhere, but a creaky old staircase is blocking your way. 

Check out a bunch of these shudder-inducing staircases below! I really do feel for that first person — it would ruin the vacation if you had to face your own mortality every time you left your bedroom on those wobbly spiral stairs.