Travel Picks: Top 10 famous hotel rooms

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - If walls could talk some hotel rooms would never be quiet, with men's Web site Askmen.com coming up with a list of top 10 famous hotel rooms.

This list was compiled by Askmen.com and is not endorsed by Reuters:

1. Room 1738, 1740, 1742, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada

John Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed in bed here for a week in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War but the suite's biggest event was Lennon and Ono recording anti-war song "Give Peace a Chance" there. Now available to the public as the John Lennon and Yoko Ono suite, the living room and bedroom have various press articles and other memorabilia to commemorate their stay.

2. Room 16, L'Hotel Paris, France

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go," Oscar Wilde said in this hotel room where he spent his last days before his death in 1900. Wilde was flat broke when he stayed there as you can see from letters on the wall, asking Wilde to pay his bill.

3. Room 105, Highland Gardens Hotel (formerly Landmark Hotel), Hollywood, California

Janis Joplin checked into this Hollywood hotel room and overdosed on heroin, dying on October 4, 1970. Now renamed the Highland Gardens, the hotel does make her famous hotel room available to the public.

4. Room 776, The Mayflower, Washington, D.C.

Franklin Roosevelt stayed here in the months leading up to his 1933 presidential inauguration. The hotel is also more recently known as the site of Client 9's (aka former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer) secret meetings.

5. Room 217, The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado

Stephen King and his wife checked into this room in Colorado for a quiet weekend but instead King came up with the idea for "The Shining". Many believe the hotel is haunted. "The Shining" TV miniseries was shot here as well as parts of "Dumb and Dumber". The hotel's TV plays the movie and miniseries on a loop.

6. Room 524, Stamford Plaza (formerly The Ritz-Carlton), Sydney, Australia

INXS leader singer Michael Hutchence hanged himself with a belt in this room in November 1997, with a coroner ruling it was suicide despite a popular suggestion his death was accidental.

7. Room 203, Mark Twain Hotel, San Francisco, California

On January 22, 1949, federal narcotics agents raided jazz singer Billie Holiday's room and she was arrested for possession of opium. The case went to trial but she was acquitted.