South Beach & the Art Deco Historic District. America's first urban 20th-century historic district placed on the National Register of Historic Places, South Beach packs more than 800 pastel Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and MiMo buildings into a walkable waterfront grid. The Art Deco Welcome Center at 1001 Ocean Drive offers daily walking tours led by the…
Wynwood Walls. An open-air museum of monumental murals commissioned from more than 100 internationally renowned street artists, Wynwood Walls transformed a former warehouse block into the most photographed outdoor gallery in the hemisphere. The surrounding Wynwood Arts District adds craft breweries, galleries, and some of the…
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. A National Historic Landmark on Biscayne Bay, Vizcaya is a 1916 Italian Renaissance villa whose 34 original-furnished rooms and ten acres of formal European gardens feel transplanted from the Veneto. Welcoming nearly 400,000 visitors a year, it is one of Florida's most significant cultural sites.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron and opened in 2013, PAMM anchors Miami's cultural waterfront on Biscayne Bay with a 200,000-square-foot campus devoted to international art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Suspended garden terraces overlooking the bay make it one of the most striking…
Little Havana & Calle Ocho. The pulsing heart of Miami's Cuban diaspora, Little Havana stretches along Southwest 8th Street where cigar rollers, domino players at Maximo Gomez Park, ventanita espresso windows, and the pink-marble Calle Ocho Walk of Fame create an atmosphere unlike anywhere else in the country. The annual Calle Ocho Music…
Everglades National Park. Just one hour's drive from downtown Miami, the Everglades is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States and a UNESCO World Heritage Site where airboat tours, kayak trails, and alligator sightings await. The Shark Valley Visitor Center (40 miles west of downtown) and the main Homestead entrance are the…
Miami Design District. Eighteen blocks of luxury flagship stores — Hermès, Dior, Chanel, Fendi Casa — are woven together with Michelin-starred restaurants, the ICA Miami, and architecturally significant public art installations, making this one of the most curated high-design neighborhoods in any American city.
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. One of only a handful of institutions worldwide to house both a planetarium and a 500,000-gallon aquarium under one roof, Frost Science sits on four bayfront acres in Maurice A. Ferré Park adjacent to PAMM. The cone-shaped, multi-level aquarium lets visitors peer at the open ocean from below, at mid-water, and from…