Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation)

Jacob's Ladder is a staircase to heaven from a dream of Jacob described in the Old Testament.

Jacob's Ladder may also refer to:

Places

A set of stairs and the associated Jacobs Ladder Bridge between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland, New Zealand
A set of 279 stairs in Saint Clair, in Dunedin, New Zealand

A 223 step 'shortcut' to McCaig's Tower in Oban, Argyllshire
A set of stone steps down to the lowest bridge at the waterfalls at Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales
Jacob's Ladder Beach, in Sidmouth, Devon, England
A scenic path in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England
A scenic path on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, England
A path on Wenlock Edge at Eaton-under-Heywood, Shropshire, England
A set of 111 steps in Falmouth, Cornwall
A staircase cut into the side of Calton Hill in Edinburgh

A hillside stairway of 699 steps between Jamestown and Half Tree Hollow, Saint Helena (British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean)

U.S. Route 20, as it crosses the Berkshire Hills between the towns of Chester and Lee in western Massachusetts
A trestle on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, New Hampshire
Grand Canyon, Bright Angel Trail, from South Rim to canyon bottom starts with a steep series of switchbacks of this name

"We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder", a spiritual/gospel/folk song
- "Jacob's Ladder", a song on The Staple Singers album Freedom Highway
"Jacob's Ladder" (Huey Lewis and the News song), a 1987 song written by Bruce Hornsby, initially recorded by Huey Lewis and the News, and subsequently also by Hornsby
"Jacob's Ladder", a song by Rush, on the 1980 album Permanent Waves
"Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)", a 2002 song by Chumbawamba
"Jacob's Ladder", a 1984 song by The Monochrome Set
"Jacob's Ladder" (Mark Wills song), a 1996 song by Mark Wills, on his self-titled debut album
"Jacob's Ladder", a song by Converge, on the 2003 album Unloved and Weeded Out
"Jacob's Ladder", a song by Patrick Wolf, on the 2005 album Wind in the Wires
"Jacob's Ladder", a song by Fucked Up, on the 2006 album Hidden World
"Jacob's Ladder", a 1986 number-one hit single for Huey Lewis & The News

In Mega Man X8, a plan to build a space elevator between the Moon and Earth is called the "Jakob Project"
In the game Alpha Protocol the first mission is called Operation Jacob's Ladder
The game Dear Esther features a story leading to speculations whether this might be a reference to Jacob's Ladder
In the game StarCraft, a multiplayer map with the same name, selected in 1998 as Blizzard's Map of the Week
In the Animal Crossing (video game) series, Jacob's Ladders appear as flowers in perfect towns. However, their appearance actually is of the Lily of the valley.
In the expansion of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Afterbirth+, an item is called ''Jacob's Ladder'' with the effect of electric tears

Jacob's Ladder (1990 film), a 1990 thriller/horror film
Jacob's Ladder (2019 film), an upcoming film
Jacob's Ladder, a 1998 novel by Donald McCaig
Jacob's Ladder (novel), a 2005 novel by Brian Keaney
Jacob's ladder (apparatus), a device for producing high voltage traveling arcs, an electrical effect often employed in classic cinematic portrayals of scientific laboratories
"Jacob's Ladder", a string figure pattern (children's game)
Jacob's ladder (knife), a three-part pocket knife
Jacob's ladder (manifold), a noncompact surface in mathematics
Jacob's ladder (nautical), specialized ladders used at sea, especially a rope ladder with wooden steps for ascending from the deck to the rigging
Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), a ladder made of eight logs of gradually increasing height
Jacob's ladder (toy), a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings
Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament
"A Ladder to Heaven", a 2002 South Park episode
Crepuscular rays, shining down a hole in the clouds
Polemonium, a genus of flowering plants, with common names "Jacob's Ladder" and "Abscess root"
Colloquial name for the UK beef cut of thin rib
The Jacob's Ladder or Frenum piercing, a kind of male genital piercing

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