8. Lombard Street, San Francisco, USA



The street is famous for a small section near the top of Russian Hill, between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. Here the hill is so steep (27°) that it would be too dangerous for most vehicles, so between 1922 and 1923 this part of Lombard Street was transformed into a switchback with eight sharp turns.



The crooked section of the street, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long, is reserved for one-way traffic traveling east (downhill) and is paved with red bricks. The speed limit in this section is 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h).

10. Street in Orvieto, Italy



Orvieto is a city in Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone called Tufa. This beautiful city is full of charming narrow streets, like this one in the picture above.

12. Fiskargränd, Visby, Sweden



Fish Alley (Fiskargränd) is a street of Visby and it is one of the most photographed streets in Sweden. The area where Fiskargränd lies is popularly called "Fish root" from the 1600s onwards. Fiskargränd, adjoining neighborhood fishermen, has been used as a street name since the 1750s. Climbing roses, among other plants, were planted in the early 1940s.



In December 2004 there was a citizen proposal that Fiskargränd be renamed to Rose Alley. The person wrote "that there are no fish there, but there are at least a thousand roses." The proposal was rebuffed by the Municipality of Gotland, which did not see enough reason to change the name.

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