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Falling Upwards: A Vertigo-Inducing View at King Aragon’s Stairs in France

January 27, 2014

Christopher Jobson

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Photographer Allard Schager shot this perplexing photo while looking up the Stairway of the King of Aragon, a stairwell carved into a steep cliff face in Bonifacio, Corsica, France. I’ve looked at it carefully half a dozen times and still get confused as to which way is up or down. Totally wild.

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