Places joseramirez Wants to Go

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.