Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

The legendary author Ernest Hemingway bought this 1851 Spanish Colonial house in 1931 and lived in it until 1940. It features a lush tropical garden and the salt-water pool that he claimed nearly wiped him out financially, and contains his "last penny" pressed into the concrete. Tourists can see the restored interior as well, which displays the writer's own collection of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish furniture. More than forty descendants of Hemingway's original brood of house cats still roam the property. He wrote a number of novels here including A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Address: 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida