Ah, Europe, home of landmark cafés, glorious historic churches—and stinking, dangerous red-light districts rife with hookers, drug dealers, and pickpockets. Correspondents for the Times of London highlight the continent's most tawdry areas.
- Reeperbahn, Hamburg: Germany's decorous port town turns as seedy as it gets here. Pimps fight turf wars with knives, while half-naked prostitutes pelt other women with perfume-filled condoms.