Opened in the 1920s, the Ahwahnee Hotel has hosted presidents, monarchs, and Hollywood stars in its time, as well as inspiring aspects of the Overlook Hotel in the film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining.

Today's guests can book a stay in the Ahwahnee's Mary Curry Tresidder Suite, which is where the late Queen Elizabeth II stayed during her 1983 tour of California. The hotel was also used as a World War II hospital for those afflicted with shell shock.

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