China Built the World's Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It's a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky

China Built the World's Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It's a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky

Now officially taking rides: an over-a-half-mile long escalator that stretches ever upward in a mountainous city in China’s Chongqing municipality. Called the “Goddess” escalator, its endeavors towards a suitably heavenly domain. The absurd architectural feat cuts through the center of the city in Wushan, starting from the bottom of a steep bank and rising straight into the sky, which it almost seems to touch; footage of the marvel, while impres…