I love age of sail literature and movies and one of my favorite "true" stories of all time is the story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian and the HMS Bounty. The mutiny, Bligh's incredible feat of sailing and survival, and what happened on Pitcairn Island and that which goes on there today so many years later. Just a great story of the human condition.
There are two places in the world I would like to see...Portsmouth England and Pitcairn Island...directly because of the story of the Bounty.