There are going to be plenty of things dropping for New Year's Eve in Key West, Florida.

The Sunshine State's hedonistic, subtropical island has six different "drops" Tuesday evening modeled after New York City's famous ball drop.

Among them is Gary Marion, known as the drag queen Sushi, who will be lowered in a huge facsimile of a woman's high heel at a bar on Duval Street.

Outside Sloppy Joe's Bar, famous for being a hangout of writer Ernest Hemingway, thousands of revelers are expected to watch the drop of a gigantic man-made conch shell, the symbol of the Florida Keys.

Celebrants can see a...