For nearly two centuries, European cities have quietly asked their visitors to help shoulder the cost of being visited — a practice born not of greed but of fairness, rooted in the simple observation that infrastructure wears down and residents should not alone bear that burden. Italy now collects over €452 million annually from four cities alone, and England, long resistant to such levies, is beginning to reckon with the same question its continental neighbors answered long ago: who pays for the places that everyone wants to see?