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Unusual Attractions in Key West

Key West, Florida

Dry Tortugas

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Key West, Florida

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Key West, Florida

Robert the Doll

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Key West, Florida

Captain Tony's Saloon

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Key West, Florida

Nancy Forrester's Secret Garden

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Key West, Florida

Key West Cemetery

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Key West, Florida

Pan Am's First Office

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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Captain Tony's Saloon

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Key West, Florida

Blue Heaven Rooster Cemetery

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

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A "colossal" size claw at Key Largo Fisheries' Backyard Cafe.

Consider the Stone Crab

In the Florida Keys, the local catch is "renewable."

Robert's sailor suit is not original to the doll. It may have first belonged to one of his former owners, Robert Eugene Otto.

The Story Behind the World's Most Terrifying Haunted Doll

Robert the Doll is Key West's most cursed object.

October 25, 2021

The Alligator Reef lighthouse, off the coast of Islamorada in the Florida Keys, is one of the four being given away gratis.

For Sale: A 19th-Century Screw-Pile Lighthouse With a View of Key West

For free: Four more of these derelict, decommissioned structures, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.

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November 22, 2019

A chicken family joins some Key West tourists for dinner.

All Your Favorite Island Vacation Spots Have Been Overrun by Feral Chickens

Key West, Kauai, and Bermuda each have too many chickens—but very different ways of dealing with them.

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