Visit the childhood home of legends.

John Lennon

Home to his aunt Mimi and her husband, this detached, middle-class Liverpool home in Woolton was John Lennon's from the age of five until adulthood. During a difficult time for Lennon's mother, she sent Lennon there and continued to visit him regularly. Later, in 2002, Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, purchased the house when it faced demolition. She donated it to the National Committee for Conservation of Nature (NCCN).

Bob Dylan

Robert Zimmerman, the real name of musician and singer Bob Dylan, lived on the second floor of a two-story house in Duluth, Minnesota, from birth until he was six years old. The house is now owned by a Dylan fan.

Andy Warhol

At age six, the legendary artist Andy Warhol moved into a modest three-story yellow brick house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol lived there for 15 years, until he moved to New York City in 1949. The basement of this house was also where he learned to use a camera.

Kurt Cobain

The frontman of Nirvana lived in the four-bedroom house in Aberdeen, Washington from 1968 to 1976. The shed of the house was also where he and Krist Novoselic rehearsed for the early days of Nirvana in the 1980s. The house has retained many of its original features, including Cobain's handwriting on the bedroom wall.

Johnny Cash

Music legend Johnny Cash grew up on a five-room ranch in Dyess Colony, Mississippi—a federal experiment resulting from President Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1935, Cash's father was granted 20 acres of land and the house, completely free of charge. Cash lived there until 1950, when he joined the Air Force.

Michael Jackson

In a strange coincidence, Michael Jackson's childhood home—a two-bedroom, white-framed house in Gary, Indiana—is located at 2300 Jackson Street. All nine of the Jackson children were raised in this small house by their grandparents, Katherine and Joe.

John F. Kennedy

On the second floor of a two-and-a-half-story house in Brookline, Massachusetts, the 35th President of the United States was born on May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy lived here, at 83 Beals Street, for a decade, until the Kennedy family moved to New York City in the late 1920s. Today, the house has been renovated to resemble the original home where JFK lived and is open for tours.

Nelson Mandela

At the age of nine, Nelson Mandela moved to live in a "hut" in Mqhekezweni, a village in eastern South Africa. Raised by Chief Jongintaba, this place held deep significance for Mandela, and he continued to visit it in his old age.

Princess Diana

Althorp House, the Spencer family estate, was Princess Diana's home before she moved to Buckingham Palace. Located in Northamptonshire, England, the estate dates back to 1688. Today, it is open to visitors.

Ernest Hemingway

In 1906, the Hemingway family moved to a spacious house in Oak Park. Ernest Hemingway, then 7 years old, spent much of his childhood there before moving after World War I. In 2012, the house was sold for $525,000, with the new owner hoping to restore the house's "legend" and keep it as a private residence rather than turning it into an apartment building.

Hans Christian Andersen

Not far from St. Knud's Church in Odense (Denmark) is where Hans Christian Andersen, the author beloved by generations of children, lived with his family from the age of two until he was fourteen. The small house was about 60 square meters.²Today it is open to visitors.

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens – or the famous writer Mark Twain – lived here from 1844 to 1853, from the age of 9 to 18. The house's most striking feature is its white fence, an image that appeared in his 1876 novel, *The Adventure of Tom Sawyer*. Today, the house is a tourist attraction.

Walt Disney

At the corner of Tripp Avenue and Palmer Street, just outside downtown Chicago, Walt Disney was born and raised in a modest home designed and built by his family – Flora and Elias Disney. The cost of building the two-story log cabin in the 1890s was only about $800.

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