Most people who wait out the long, slow-moving line into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican leave with an overwhelming feeling of inferiority, slumped over at the feet of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Not this guy! Nope, a U.K. man named Robert Burns has this to say: "One day I saw some photos of the Vatican in Rome and thought, 'I could do that.' I never looked back."

Everybody knows that books are a bitch to move and pack! They're even harder to store and display in cramped urban quarters. How to fix? Go the obsessive route and turn every square inch of your apartment into a custom-made book-storage unit. Check out this staircase-bookshelf!