World's steepest street in New Zealand actually result of poor planning

Imagine stepping out of your front door onto this mind-bending street.

Located in Dunedin, New Zealand, Baldwin Street holds the title of the steepest street in the world, according to Guinness World Records.

Baldwin Street is even paved with concrete instead of asphalt, because on a hot day the tar would actually move down the slope.

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New Zealand Daily Life

Participants take part in a race to run up and down the world's steepest street in Dunedin, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept., 18, 2011. Baldwin Street is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest residential street in the world with a the slope of about 1:2.86 (19° or 35%) – that is, for every 2.86 metres travelled horizontally, the elevation rises by 1 metre. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

So why would anyone set up home on such a bizarre stretch?

Turns out it's all to do with bad planning, and urban designers from England are to blame!

Find out more in the video above.