Places are less important than people you meet.

MOVIES:  hmm, for example Once Upon A Time In America; The Big Blue; spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone MUSIC:  well, maybe these ones: Pat Metheny, Bugge Wesseltoft, loads of Brazilian Tropicalia movement like Caetano Veloso, Joao Gilberto, Marcos Vale, etc., Joe Zawinul, Ennio Morricone, Fela Kuti, Keith Jarrett, Michel Petrucciani, Stephane Grappelli, Toninho Horta, Branford Marsalis and many many more BOOKS: oh damn, hard, am not a book warm, but i loved Ryszard Kapuściński, Hemingway and other "adventurers"