London

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

-- Samuel Johnson

Illustration: London: Northumberland House, by Canaletto, 1752, public domain

The Grand Canal

"White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of palaces and strips of sk..."

- H. W. Longfellow, Venice

Illustration: The Grand Canal, J. M. W. Turner, c. 1835, public domain