U.S. News Insider Tip: Combine this stop with the Key West Lighthouse across the street ... Many of the cats that currently live on the museum grounds (about 60) are believed to be descendants ...

If you can fend off the claustrophobia and don't mind heights, the climb up the tiny and constricting 88 spiral steps to the top of the Key West Lighthouse ... house is now a museum that surveys ...

Naval Air Station Key West is located on Boca Chica Key, Florida. It is the second to last major island in the Florida Keys. Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States.