For the last 25 years of his life, Howard Hughes was a recluse, and spent the last six years wasting away in a drug stupor, in which islands?

Once one of the world's most visible and powerful men, the billionaire aviator and filmmaker spent his final decades in a self-imposed prison. Plagued by debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic pain from earlier plane crashes, Hughes became a legendary recluse. He drifted between luxury hotels, turning entire floors into hermetic fortresses, blacking out windows and demanding extreme protocols from his small circle of aides to avoid contamination from the outside world.

In 1970, this bizarre, nomadic existence brought him to the Xanadu Princess Resort in Freeport. For several years, this island nation served as his primary hideout. It was here that his physical and mental state severely deteriorated. Addicted to codeine and subsisting on a meager diet, he wasted away, his famously long hair and fingernails growing unchecked while he remained locked in a darkened penthouse, completely cut off from reality.

Although he eventually moved on to other locations, including a final hideout in Acapulco, Mexico, his multi-year stupor in this Caribbean location represents the nadir of his tragic decline. When he finally died in 1976, he was so emaciated and unrecognizable that the FBI had to use fingerprints to officially confirm his identity.