Southernmost Point Buoy - Key West, Florida, USA

At the corner of Whitehead and South Streets in Key West, Florida, this camera looks at the famous Southernmost Point Buoy, where visitors line up all day for a photo beside the giant striped marker.

The buoy was put up by the city in 1983 and painted by a local artist. It's about 12 feet (3.7 m) tall and made from roughly 4 tons of concrete, and its sign says it's 90 miles to Cuba, though the real distance is closer to 94 miles.

Next to it, a small concrete building marks the spot where a telephone cable left Key West for Havana in 1921, and the palm-lined streets of the island's Old Town stretch away behind it.

Did You Know? Despite the sign, this isn't really the southernmost point of the continental US. That's Ballast Key, about 10 miles to the southwest, which can only be reached by boat.

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