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1. Perhaps nothing has rattled the Chelsea's walls more than the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Nancy Spungeon, seemingly at the hands of her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, in Room 100 on the hotel's first floor. The 21-year-old Brit woke from a drug-induced slumber on the morning of Oct. 12, 1978, to find Nancy dead in the bathroom.

Sid was charged with murder but died at a friend's Greenwich Village apartment a few months later while out on bail, having shot heroin and taken four Quaaludes. 

Though police said that Sid tearfully told them, "I killed her," when he was arrested, he couldn't remember doing it and many who knew the couple didn't believe he was guilty. Nor, ultimately, did Gary Oldman, who played him in the 1986 film Sid and Nancy. "After all the research I did, I was convinced it wasn't a suicide pact and that Sid didn't murder her," he told the LA Times. Chloe Webb, who played Nancy, called her violent demise "an accident waiting to happen" considering the debauched way they lived.

Whatever the truth, Room 100 was demolished and incorporated into another unit to avoid having a pilgrimage spot for the morbidly curious.