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Designated CP. July 23, 1973. Designated NMSRCP. June 20, 1971. The Loretto Chapel is a former Roman Catholic church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, that is now used as a museum and a wedding chapel. [2] It is known for its unusual helix -shaped spiral staircase (the "Miraculous Stair").
The Staircase is a 1998 American television film about the story of the spiral staircase, believed by some to be miraculously built, at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It stars Barbara Hershey as Mother Madalyn in charge of the chapel and William Petersen as Joad, the traveling carpenter with spiritual talent as well as woodworking ...
Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain. Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain is an art installation and landmark in Duisburg, Germany, built in 2011. [1][2] It was designed by Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter. It resembles a roller coaster, but it is a walkway with stairs. Its vertical loop continues the walkway and stairs but is unwalkable and ...
Hang a Statement Chandelier. In the foyer of our 2019 Whole Home, designer Vern Yip installed a stunning gold chandelier in the middle of the curved staircase. The gold metal brings out the gold ...
e. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its ...
Technical. Line length. 281.6 metres (924 ft) Highest elevation. 183 metres (600 ft) Maximum incline. 87% (41°) Jacob's Ladder is a Grade I listed staircase leading from Jamestown, Saint Helena, up the side of Ladder Hill to Ladder Hill Fort. The name is a reference to the biblical Jacob's Ladder, a ladder extending to heaven.
The Devil's Staircase Wilderness is a forested wilderness area adjacent to the Umpqua River in the Southern Oregon Coast Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was officially designated in March 2019. It was officially designated in March 2019.
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 [1][2][3][4] and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. [5] A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which ...