The Chelsea Hotel, New York

The Hotel Chelsea mantra is that it’s a “rest stop for rare individuals.” Arthur C. Clarke, wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while living at the hotel, Joni Mitchell created the song Chelsea Morning during her stay, and William Burrows authored parts of Naked Lunch there. Artist Willem de Kooning, Bob Dylan (above), Jane Fonda (who starred in Klute with fellow Chelsea alum Donald Sutherland), Jasper Johns, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Vladimir Nabokov, and a host of others resided there too. Ethan Hawke, who lived at the hotel and directed the film Chelsea Walls there once noted that you could feel the creativity in the walls. “You'd read about the punks and Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe and Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe fighting in the lobby. I was like, "Whoa—I have to go to that hotel!" said the actor.