The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge this week is ascend.  If I were a bird, I would spread my wings and fly! Since humans have no wings, we have created other ways to go up…

Escalators at Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago (two of these go down, one goes up)

Circular stairways at Grand Ave. Mall in Milwaukee
The funicular and the stairs connecting Upper and Lower Old Town, Quebec City, Canada

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Want to see the view? Try Chicago’s Ferris Wheel on Navy Pier!

Circular stairway at Museu da Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I did a long post several months ago about going up Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) in Rio de Janeiro, including a video of our cable car ascending. Here it is again:

Some are getting ready to descend, or are disembarking after ascending!

Winding staircase and marble staircase at State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota

Elevator door, State Capitol, Bismarck, North Dakota