What is the most famous street in the world?
A few of these you walk for the shopping, a few for the ghosts, one for a photograph you have already seen a thousand times.
1Champs-Elysees
Paris's ceremonial axis from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe, and the finish line of the Tour de France.
1000pts
2Fifth Avenue
Manhattan's luxury run past the Empire State Building, St Patrick's and Central Park.
732pts
3Ocean Drive
Miami Beach's art deco strip, pastel hotels facing the Atlantic.
660pts
Shibuya Crossing
Tokyo's scramble intersection, where up to 3,000 people cross at once.
628pts
5Downing Street
A cul-de-sac behind a black door that houses the British government.
553pts
6Oxford Street
London's retail spine, walked by around half a million people on a busy Saturday.
553pts
7Hollywood Boulevard
The Walk of Fame, the Chinese Theatre, and more disappointed tourists than any street in California.
488pts
8Wall Street
A narrow lane in Lower Manhattan that became shorthand for global finance.
325pts
9Bourbon Street
The loud heart of the French Quarter, and the reason Mardi Gras looks the way it does.
325pts
10Nanjing Road
Shanghai's shopping street, among the busiest retail miles on earth.
325pts
11Las Vegas Strip
Four miles of casinos that turned a desert highway into a skyline.
325pts
12Unter den Linden
Berlin's grand boulevard from the Brandenburg Gate to the Museum Island.
325pts
13Rodeo Drive
Three blocks of Beverly Hills luxury that became a film location in itself.
325pts
14Lombard Street
San Francisco's eight hairpin turns down a single block of Russian Hill.
325pts
15Abbey Road
A quiet north London street made permanent by four men on a zebra crossing in 1969.
98pts
16La Rambla
Barcelona's tree-lined promenade from Placa de Catalunya down to the sea.
98pts
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