Walking the streets of a new city is one of my favorite things to do, and they have a lot of influence on the way I experience each place.

The narrow, steep streets of Lisbon and Porto with its tiled buildings made me fall in love with both cities, and the streets of Tallinn made me feel like I had taken a step back in time.

So I thought I’d put together a list of some amazing streets around the world that stand out from the rest. By visiting these streets you have experienced something special…

The Most Romantic Street - Lower Slaughter, England

Lower Slaughter, a picturesque village famous for its beautiful Cotswolds cottages, now have something else to be equally proud of:

Last year a street in the city called Copse Hill Road, was voted the most romantic street in Britain by voters on the Google Street View award.

Perhaps the perfect street for a romantic stroll on the upcoming Valentine’s day?

The Steepest Street - Dunedin, New Zealand

Many of the cities in New Zealand were designed by British town planners who had never even been to the country, let alone knew what the areas really looked like.

They simply overlaid a grid pattern on the map, having no idea how ridiculous and impossible the designs would turn out.

In some places, like in Christchurch, this worked – in others, like Wellington and Dunedin – it didn’t…

This resulted in streets like Baldwin street, which at 35% grade is one of the steepest streets in the world.

The Narrowest Street - Exeter, England

Parliament Street in Exeter is a 50 meter long street dating back to 1300′s, known as the narrowest street in the world.

If you’re wider than 0,64 m (25”) you would probably get stuck at its narrowest point, that’s how narrow it is..!

The Crookedest Street - San Francisco, United States

With eight bizarre hair-pin turns, also called switchbacks, Lombard street in San Francisco is known as the crookedest street in the world.

Unlike Dunedin, they realized that without the turns the street would be too steep for most vehicles, and today it is a one way street to make it safer.

There are a number of luxury villas and five star hotels jotted along this famous street if you want to stay close.

The Shortest Street - Wick, Scotland

This is my favorite, and how they can call this a street I don’t know – but in 1887, the Ebenezer Place was officially declared a street.

Measuring at 2.06 meters (6.9 ft), Ebenezer Place in Wick is the shortest street in the world. There is just one house on the street, which today serves as a hotel, and the owner was instructed to paint a street name on the house.

Have you visited a crazy, beautiful or amazing street you would like to share?