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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

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

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

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

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

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

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

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