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Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

by bookofjoe on 4/16/2026, 3:08:33 PM

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-once-led-to-the-top-of-the-eiffel-tower-now-you-can-buy-14-of-the-original-steps-180988535/

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by: sneak

All spiral staircases have a single guardrail. That’s why they aren’t double helix staircases.

4/19/2026, 3:50:20 AM


by: SV_BubbleTime

Look, I know ads are <i>the mechanism</i> for some sites. And I don’t normally <i>“this site gave my phone cancer”</i>.. but on IOS with blockers, everything except the text on the site can go fuck itself.<p>Been to the top of the Eiffel, it was a long enough set of elevator rides to flirt with and eventually date a French girl. So that probably wouldn’t have happened on stairs.

4/19/2026, 4:39:43 AM