He gently pulls the steel handles along the walls to show a walk-in closet on the other side, then slides another panel out to reveal a full-sized bathtub.

BBC: Hong Kong copes with tight living spaces

From Hongguan you can continue on to the riverside village of Big Likeng, though this 15km walk is more complex with numerous side trails -- you will definitely need to hire a guide in the village before leaving.

BBC: Rural adventures in China��s backcountry

Born in New York City 48 years ago, he was adopted by relatives who raised him in their walk-up flat on Chicago's tough South Side.

FORBES: Larry Ellison

In the Big Apple, however, Cintron ended up finding a "mother lode" of pay phones, 15 of them on a seven-block walk up Broadway on New York's Upper West Side.

CNN: Pay phones: The search for an endangered species

Venture on a short drive, or 30-minute walk, from downtown Austin to the city's south side for some of the top vegetarian choices the city has to offer.

BBC: A vegetarian in Texas

Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi