Top 10 Most Expensive Cities to Visit

A McDonald's Big Mac costs $8, a mid-range dinner for two runs $150, and the Swiss franc's strength means your home currency evaporates faster than fondue at a dinner party.

A Manhattan hotel averages $350 a night, a cocktail costs $22, and the subway somehow still feels overpriced at $2.90 — New York has perfected the art of making everyone feel poor regardless of income.

Zone 1 hotel rooms start at $300, a pint costs $8, and the Congestion Charge punishes you just for driving through the city center — the British Museum being free feels like a deliberate taunt.

Two Swiss cities in the top five is not a typo — Geneva charges $50 for a basic lunch, $400 for a hotel room, and the lake views, while stunning, are the most expensive water panoramas on Earth.

The world's least affordable housing market extends its pricing philosophy to hotels, restaurants, and taxi rides, though the dim sum at Tim Ho Wan remains a defiant bargain in a city that despises discounts.

Placing Tokyo seventh will surprise those who remember cheap sushi — the weak yen era is ending, Ginza dinner tabs rival Paris, and a night in Shinjuku now costs what a week in Bangkok does.

The startup nation's price inflation has turned a Mediterranean beach city into a $20-cocktail destination where hummus costs four times what it does ten miles away in the West Bank.

A lamb hot dog from the famous stand costs $5, a sit-down meal averages $60, and the Blue Lagoon entrance fee keeps climbing — Iceland prices are as volcanic as the landscape.

Noma made Copenhagen a culinary pilgrimage site with $500 tasting menus, and the Scandinavian pricing philosophy has trickled down so aggressively that even a gas station sandwich feels like a financial event.