Rue du Tresor

This guide to Rue du Tresor in Quebec City starts with a promise the name never delivers: three centuries on, no treasure has ever turned up beneath its cobblestones. It traces the street to French colonial rule, when settlers came here to pay taxes to Quebec's Royal Treasury, coin by coin, before the money was shipped off to France. It then follows the lane through nearly two quiet centuries between the grand facades of Notre-Dame Cathedral and Chateau Frontenac, before you wonder what eventually gave this narrow street something worth stopping for.