PARIS, FRANCE -- Visit Paris’ Left Bank and you’ll expect to see iconic names like Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots and Brasserie Lipp.

Monickers such as The Moose, The Great Canadian Pub and (on nearby Ile St. Louis) The Beaver, however, may seem a bit out of place.

ROME, ITALY -- The scene is ancient Rome, the year 205 A.D. Chariots race around the Circus Maximus, the city’s oldest and largest chariot track, at a blinding pace. 
 

YORK, ENGLAND -- We asked the old man sweeping the stoop outside his medieval shop on one of this city’s famed narrow streets what the area was called.

“You’re in Shambles,” replied the elderly man.

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- This is a city whose architecture you either love or hate.