Key West has many remarkable, interesting and downright amazing things to see and places to visit, including museums historic sites, beaches and much more. The Key West Info Center can plan your vacation so you dont have to waste time searching for something to do or see.

The Hemingway House
Hemingway owned the home from 1931 until his passing in 1961. The Spanish Colonial style home was constructed of native rock hewn from the grounds and boasts the first pool built in Key West. The pool, built in the late 1930's, cost $20,000. This price prompted Hemingway to take a penny from his pocket and press it into the wet cement of the surrounding patio and announce jokingly, "Here, take the last penny I've got!" That penny is still there.

Many cats and kittens who are direct descendants of Hemingway's nearly 50 cats still make their home here. They are one of the most charming living memorials to "Papa" Hemingway. Enjoy their endless antics as they romp through the trees and grounds. Take special note of the famed six toed cats, easy to spot as they lounge in the shade preening their enormous feet.

Ernest Hemingway, the American author whose ideas of courage and honor in a confusing and hostile world remain as inspiration to this day. Experience the calming contrast that this Key West home offered this complex man as you take a leisurely and inspiring tour of his mansion and gardens. Browse as long as you like here where Hemingway penned most of his greatest novels and short stories.
This Nobel Prize winner is considered by many to be the greatest, most influential American writer of all time. The first important writer to discover Key West and make it his home, the legacy of this man and his work draws visitors from the world over to the Hemingway Home and Museum.

The Audubon House
The Audubon House & Tropical Gardens offer a relaxing, educational environment for families and visitors of all ages. Slated for demolition in 1958, the house was saved by the Mitchell Wolfson Family Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit educational institution. This was the first restoration project in Key West, and is still considered the gem of the island's restoration movement.

A visit to the Audubon House & Tropical Gardens is an exploration into local history and folklore, while the gardens offer a lush one-acre view of tropical foliage.
You will enjoy viewing the works of John James Audubon, world renown ornithologist. There are 28 first edition Audubon works in the house.

Audubon visited the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in 1832. Audubon left Key West having sighted and drawn 18 new birds for his "Birds of America" folio. It is believed that many of those drawings were conceived in the Audubon House garden. Audubon's painting of the white-crowned pigeon features the Geiger tree found in the front yard of the house.

The 19th-century home was built by Captain John H. Geiger, a harbor pilot and master wrecker, who lived in the house with his wife and nine children. It was an era when shipwrecks occurred daily on the off-shore reef. It was a time of pirates and yellow fever, slave ships and Indian wars.

The Shipwreck Historium
Enter the world of 1856 Key West... the era of the wreckers. At the Key West Shipwreck HISTOREUM Museum you will step back into time as you discover Key West's unique maritime heritage and how it became the richest city in the United States. The Key West Shipwreck HISTOREUM Museum combines actors, films, laser technology and the actual artifacts from the recently rediscovered wrecked vessel Isaac Allerton, which sank in 1856 on the treacherous Florida Keys reef.

Join master wrecker Asa Tift and his wrecking crew as he tells you the story of how this unusual industry provided for the livelihoods of the early pioneers of Key West. You will be invited to climb the 60' lookout tower and if need be, alarm Mr. Tift of any wrecks on the reef

Mel Fisher Maritime Museum
The Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum brings you the essence of the Age of Discovery. From the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, Europeans explored what was to them a whole "New World". Their exploits, their commerce and the havoc they wreaked by both accident and design on the native inhabitants of the Americas all have their echoes in the artifacts in our collection.

Explore the museum’s four ships, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita, both of which sank in a hurricane in 1622; The St. John’s Wreck, a vessel of exploration that carried conquistadors to the Caribbean in roughly 1560; and the Henrietta Marie, an English merchant slaver that sank off the Florida Keys in 1700.

Ripley's Believe It or Not
This 10,000 square foot, air-conditioned odditorium containing over 1,500 exhibits is ready to provide you and your family with unbelievable fun and amazement! For over forty years the adventurous Robert Ripley explored the uncanny and amazing mysteries of the earth. His travels took him around the world in search of the unbelievable and inexplicable. First published in 1929, Robert Ripley's works were read worldwide in over 300 newspapers, translated into 17 languages and held a readership of over 80 million. Each of the 27 museums worldwide is 90% unique from the others. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museums are proud to offer you this fantastic collection of the world's strangest oddities!

The Southernmost Scavenger Hunt
Since winning the prestigious "Venture Award" from the Key West Chamber of Commerce, The Southernmost Scavenger Hunt has expanded to offer a wider variety of custom designed features to their ever-popular scavenger hunts. Participants are able to enjoy all the sights and sounds that make the "Southernmost City" such an unforgettable destination.