Not even the worst construction workers could have thought this stuff up. These baffling feats of engineering are beyond belief – but that’s exactly what makes them so funny.

Engineering, architecture and construction are by no means simple pursuits. However, anyone who does choose to follow these highly technical paths needs at least a shred of common sense – otherwise, you end up with absolutely absurd scenarios, like these 20 hilariously baffling feats of construction. You couldn’t make these up.

Apparently, wheelchair-bound people only need help with the first five steps. We’re sure they can manage the rest on their own, though, right? We wouldn’t want to be in this architect’s shoes when the city council finally figures out what’s wrong.

We suppose this wouldn’t be too bad, as long as you drove a motorbike. Or a really, really thin car. Yeah, okay, this is just plain awful. However, maybe the homeowner just really couldn’t bear to cut down his favorite tree.

Good luck avoiding this stupidly-placed telephone pole if there’s any traffic on the road. Maybe there was a breakdown in communication within the construction team. Unfortunately, though, it’s one that could spell disaster for drivers.

We really hope that’s not the front door – or, more accurately, it might be the exit, as that’s probably the only thing you’ll be doing if you go through it. On the other hand, perhaps it’s just an ill-thought out security measure…

Call us crazy, but we think the construction crew may have forgotten something important when building this balcony. Like, you know, getting onto it without having to abseil down from the floor above. As interesting as that might be, of course.

What’s life without a bit of adversity? Everyone likes a challenge, of course. At least, that must have been the rationale of whichever clever clogs thought a step at the bottom of an access ramp would be a good idea.

“And if we take a look in the kitchen, you’ll see we’ve got some wonderfully conceptual drawers. No, they don’t open. It’s like art. Or something.” Yeah, we really don’t envy whoever has to try to sell this place.

We’ve heard of a stairway to heaven, but a stairway to nowhere seems like a bit of a downgrade. Or maybe it’s just the world’s shortest, most pointless viewing platform. Either way, it doesn’t even look particularly safe. Great job, guys.

Some escalators are so long that often you can’t see exactly what’s at the top when you get on. That probably explains the bamboozled looks on these unwitting travelers’ faces. Why else would they have taken the escalator to nowhere?

Maybe this construction crew simply ran out of windows and figured a door wouldn’t look too out of place. Apart from being completely wrong, of course, we sure hope they at least barricaded the other side…

Really, you can’t blame the guy who installed the door – just look at the haphazard placement of those basement windows along the bottom. There’s not even an ounce of symmetry involved there. The door guy was probably just as exasperated as the rest of us.

Even tall people need to use ATMs. And by tall people, we mean clowns on stilts. Hey, at least this way nobody’s going to see your PIN number, right? You can never be too secure when it comes to your finances, you know.

Oh, don’t worry. We’re pretty sure the train can just go around that concrete block. Right? It’s not like the wheels need to be on the track, after all. Sometimes you just have to wonder what was going through people’s minds…

It doesn’t take an engineer to figure out that this footbridge may in fact be slightly misaligned. Though why the construction crew thought it was acceptable to just leave it as it is we’ll never know. Maybe they thought people could just jump across.

You can go down the ramp. And you can even go back up it, if you start from the bottom. But once you’re on the ramp, you can be damn sure you’re never, ever leaving it. The word “accessibility” must seem like a foreign language to some builders.

Finally, a bench designed exclusively for ghosts. It’s been a long time coming. More seriously, though, why is there even a random railing at that particular part of the low deck but nowhere else along it? This entire situation is beyond baffling.

Bathrooms don’t come much more compact than this. While it may take a contortionist to use the toilet, you can’t argue with how space-efficient it is. And isn’t that what modern architecture is all about?

While this garage may be unusable at the moment, it’s at least the most future-proof car storage facility we’ve ever seen. Just think: sci-fi movies can’t all be wrong – at some point, hovercars are going to be a thing. Right?

At least nobody’s going to get on this escalator by accident, unlike the one that leads to nowhere. Provided it’s an “up” escalator, that is. Can you imagine getting on at the top, only to go straight down to a pillar? You can’t even jump over the handrail here!

Oh well, then. Never mind. We didn’t want to get into that cupboard after all. Indeed, who needs storage space when you can have an unusable door? In fact, that’s real modern art, right there. Or at least, that’s what the desperate realtor will tell you.