"It’s not just the great bars and infinite characters; it’s that the old never feels old here. This 1838 mansion, for example, was most famously home to Florida’s first health officer, Dr. J.Y. Porter, who is said to haunt it—along with some patients who succumbed to yellow fever. U.S. poet laureate Robert Frost stayed in the cottage behind it on visits between 1945 and 1960 and penned the poem “The Gift Outright” here. Of course, the town is also associated with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Jimmy Buffett."