🇺🇸Miami

Miami Beach Architectural District

Miami Beach Architectural District is the historic Art Deco area of South Beach, recognised on the National Register in 1979.

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• Historic monument

Wynwood Walls

Wynwood Walls is a purpose-built open-air museum in Miami’s Wynwood arts district, northwest of Downtown Miami, where large-scale contemporary murals are presented inside a curated visitor compound.

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• Historic monument

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a preserved early twentieth-century estate on Miami’s Biscayne Bay, built around an Italian Renaissance-inspired main house and a deliberately theatrical landscape.

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• Nature site

Little Havana

Little Havana is a living Miami neighbourhood shaped by Cuban migration and enterprise, not a recreated theme district or one controlled attraction.

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• Art and culture venue

Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is a vast subtropical wilderness at the southern end of Florida. Sawgrass marshes, mangrove forests, pine flatwoods, hardwood hammocks, and shallow waterways form a landscape shaped by seasonal water movement.

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• Nature site

Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami is a waterfront museum in Maurice A. Ferré Park, where architecture, terraces and views across Biscayne Bay frame a collection devoted to modern and contemporary art.

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• Museum

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science

Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is a Downtown Miami complex that brings together a science museum, aquarium, and planetarium. Its subjects include biology, physics, technology, space, and South Florida ecology.

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• Museum

Bayside Marketplace

Bayside Marketplace is an open-air waterfront complex where Downtown Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard meets the edge of Biscayne Bay.

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• Market

Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park protects a predominantly marine landscape south of Miami, where aquamarine water, mangrove shoreline, coral reefs, and offshore islands meet. It includes Biscayne Bay, the coral keys, and part of the Florida Reef.

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• Nature site

Miami Design District

Miami Design District is a purpose-built cultural and commercial quarter north of downtown Miami, where streets, buildings, art, fashion and dining are planned as one visitor experience.

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• Historic monument

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an 83-acre botanical garden in Coral Gables, Florida, serving the Miami metropolitan area.

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• Nature site

Venetian Pool

Venetian Pool is a public swimming pool in Coral Gables, southwest of Downtown Miami, created from a former coral-rock quarry.

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• Historic monument

Zoo Miami

Zoo Miami is a zoological park located in southern Miami-Dade County. It is recognized as the only tropical zoo in the continental United States.

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• Family attraction

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park occupies the southern tip of Key Biscayne, a barrier island east of downtown Miami. The park protects approximately 400 acres of coastal landscape including beach, dunes, and mangrove shoreline.

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• Nature site

Deering Estate

The Deering Estate is a historic house museum and archaeological site located in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida. It preserves the former winter residence of Charles Deering, an industrialist and art collector.

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• Historic monument

Coral Castle Museum

Coral Castle is a limestone sculpture garden in Naranja, unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. Latvian-American Edward Leedskalnin single-handedly built the structure over nearly three decades, from 1923 until his death in 1951.

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• Museum

Jungle Island

Jungle Island is a wildlife and adventure attraction on Watson Island, positioned on the causeway between mainland Miami and Miami Beach.

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• Entertainment venue

Crandon Park

Crandon Park is a Miami-Dade County coastal park on Key Biscayne, reached beyond the Rickenbacker Causeway.

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• Nature site

History Miami

HistoryMiami Museum

HistoryMiami Museum is the region's leading history museum in Miami, Florida. It operates as a Smithsonian Affiliate institution dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of South Florida and the Caribbean.

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• Museum

Freedom Tower

Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College

The Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College is a historic landmark in downtown Miami, Florida.

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• Historic monument

The Bass Museum of Art

The Bass is a contemporary art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida. It occupies a distinctive Art Deco building originally constructed in the 1930s as a public library.

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• Museum

The Wolfsonian - FIU

The Wolfsonian-FIU is a Miami Beach museum and research centre affiliated with Florida International University. Its exhibitions explore the persuasive power of art and design, especially between 1850 and 1950.

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• Museum

Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach

Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach is a public memorial dedicated to the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust.

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• Historic monument

The Barnacle Historic State Park

The Barnacle Historic State Park is a preserved 1891 bayside house and grounds located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It represents one of the oldest houses in Miami-Dade County still standing in its original location.

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• Nature site

Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park is a public civic waterfront park on the eastern edge of Downtown Miami, where open lawns, paved paths and gathering spaces meet Biscayne Bay.

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• Nature site

Brickell City Centre

Brickell City Centre is a large mixed-use complex in central Brickell, combining retail, dining, offices, residences, public circulation areas, terraces, bridges, and climate-responsive architecture.

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• Market

Institute of Contemporary Art

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is a non-collecting contemporary-art museum in Miami's Design District. It presents international contemporary art through changing exhibitions, commissions, installations, and public programs, with work by emerging and established artists.

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• Museum

Rubell Museum

The Rubell Museum is a major contemporary-art institution located in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood. It houses an extensive private collection assembled by Don and Mera Rubell over several decades.

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• Museum

Miami Children's Museum

Miami Children's Museum is a hands-on family museum on Watson Island, between downtown Miami and Miami Beach. It turns learning into active play, with child-centered experiences connected to arts, culture, community, communication, and everyday roles.

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• Museum

Museum of Graffiti

The Museum of Graffiti is a specialist museum in Miami's Wynwood district, an area internationally recognized for its concentration of street art and murals.

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• Museum

The Underline

The Underline is a linear public park and trail situated beneath the Metrorail corridor in Miami. This repurposed transit corridor transforms underutilized space beneath the elevated rail line into a continuous greenway for pedestrians and cyclists.

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• Nature site

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is Miami’s major downtown destination for live theatre, music, dance and opera.

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• Art and culture venue

Olympia Theater

Olympia Theater at Gusman Center

Olympia Theater is a restored 1926 atmospheric theatre in downtown Miami. Its design belongs to an era when cinemas were created as immersive environments, giving the auditorium a character beyond a simple projection room.

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• Art and culture venue

Tower Theater

Tower Theater is a historic cinema and cultural venue on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana. Its location places it at the centre of one of the city’s most recognisable Cuban-American and Latin American cultural corridors.

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• Historic monument

Colony Theatre

Colony Theatre / Miami New Drama

The Colony Theatre is a historic Art Deco performance venue located on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Established in 1935, it stands as one of South Florida's notable theatrical landmarks.

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• Art and culture venue

Lummus Park

Lummus Park is a beachfront public park along Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. Its sandy shore, palm-lined promenade and open green areas form a long outdoor corridor beside the Atlantic Ocean.

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• Nature site

Flamingo Park

Flamingo Park is a municipal neighbourhood park in Miami Beach’s South Beach area. It provides a substantial open recreational space within one of Miami’s most built-up coastal districts.

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• Nature site

Lincoln Road

Lincoln Road Mall

Lincoln Road Mall is a pedestrian shopping and dining street in Miami Beach, Florida. It serves as a landmark destination within the city, functioning as an open-air commercial promenade closed to regular vehicle traffic.

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• Market

Ball & Chain

Ball & Chain is a historic music and dance venue located in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. The establishment operates as a nightlife and entertainment destination with Cuban cultural influences.

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• Nightlife venue

Versailles restaurant

Versailles Restaurant

Versailles Restaurant is a celebrated Cuban restaurant on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana. It is both a dining destination and a gathering place connected with the Cuban-American community.

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• Restaurant or café

Máximo Gómez Park

Máximo Gómez Park is a public park located in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida. It serves as a significant social gathering space, particularly renowned for its domino-playing culture.

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• Nature site

Calle Ocho Walk of Fame

The Calle Ocho Walk of Fame is an outdoor cultural landmark along Southwest 8th Street in Miami’s Little Havana. Stars set into the pavement honour Latin American and Caribbean entertainers, musicians, and cultural figures.

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• Historic monument

Bay of Pigs Museum

The Bay of Pigs Museum is a specialist Cuban-exile history museum in Miami, Florida. It documents the history of Brigade 2506, the Cuban exile group that participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

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• Museum

American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora

The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora is a cultural institution in Miami dedicated to documenting and preserving the art, history, and experiences of Cuban exiles and their descendants.

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• Museum

Lyric Theater

The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater

The Lyric Theater, also known as the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater, is a historic Black cultural landmark in Miami’s Overtown neighbourhood.

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• Art and culture venue

Hampton House Motel

The Historic Hampton House

Hampton House Motel is a restored Green Book-era motel and civil-rights landmark in Miami. During segregation, it offered African American travelers a welcoming place to stay when many hotels excluded them.

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• Museum

Virginia Beach County Park

Historic Virginia Key Beach Park

Historic Virginia Key Beach Park is a coastal park on Virginia Key near Miami.

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• Nature site

Miami Circle

Miami Circle at Brickell Point

Miami Circle is an archaeological site at Brickell Point, on the southern bank of the Miami River in downtown Miami. The principal feature is a near-perfect circle cut into the limestone bedrock, measuring about 38 feet across.

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• Nature site

Simpson Park Hammock

Simpson Park

Simpson Park Hammock is a rare tropical hardwood hammock preserve located in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

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• Nature site

Miami Riverwalk

Miami Riverwalk is a pedestrian pathway along the Miami River in downtown Miami, Florida. The walkway runs through the central business district, connecting various waterfront developments and providing public access to the river's edge.

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• Historic monument

The Kampong

The Kampong is a National Tropical Botanical Garden site located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It serves as a living repository of tropical plant species, with collections developed through decades of botanical research and cultivation.

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• Nature site

Coral Gables Museum

Coral Gables Museum is dedicated to the history, architecture, and planning of Coral Gables, the carefully designed Miami suburb. Housed in a historic building, it explains how George Merrick’s vision shaped the city from the 1920s onward.

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• Museum

Coral Gables Merrick House

Coral Gables Merrick House is a historic residence in Coral Gables, Florida. It was the home of George Merrick, the founder of the City of Coral Gables.

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• Historic monument

Shops at Merrick Park

Shops at Merrick Park is a major open-air shopping destination located in Coral Gables, Florida. The center features an upscale retail environment with Mediterranean-inspired architecture, reflecting the distinctive character of the surrounding Coral Gables area.

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• Market

CocoWalk

CocoWalk is an outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment complex located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It serves as a central gathering point for the neighborhood, combining retail stores, restaurants, and a cinema in a pedestrian-oriented setting.

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• Market

Coconut Grove Playhouse

Coconut Grove Playhouse is a historic theatre landmark in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. Its identity is tied to live performance, theatrical architecture, and the cultural life of one of Miami’s oldest communities.

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Peacock Park

Peacock Park is a bayfront public park located in Coconut Grove, Miami. It serves as both a recreational green space and a venue for public events.

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Regatta Park

Regatta Park is a bayfront public park beside Dinner Key Marina in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. Its setting combines open green space with Biscayne Bay views and a working marina atmosphere.

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Sewell Park

Sewell Park is a historic public park on the Miami River in Miami, Florida. Its defining feature is riverfront access for paddling, giving the site a more active relationship with the water than a purely ornamental city green space.

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Tropical Park

Tropical Park is a large Miami-Dade County recreation park in Miami, Florida. It is best understood as a broad outdoor destination rather than a single monument or enclosed attraction.

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Crandon Beach

Crandon Beach is a public beach located within Crandon Park on Key Biscayne, an island south of mainland Miami. It forms part of a larger county park managed by Miami-Dade County.

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Hialeah Park Race Track

Hialeah Park Race Track is a historic thoroughbred horse-racing venue in Hialeah, within the Greater Miami area. Its identity rests on three connected features: racing history, Mediterranean Revival architecture, and the flamingo flock associated with the infield lake.

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Lowe Art Museum

The Lowe Art Museum is the University of Miami's major public art museum, serving as a cultural institution on the university's Coral Gables campus. Established in 1950, it holds distinction as one of Florida's oldest art museums.

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• Museum

De la Cruz Collection

de la Cruz Collection

The de la Cruz Collection is a contemporary art space in Miami's Design District. It was established by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz to present their private collection to the public.

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Coral Gables Art Cinema

Coral Gables Art Cinema is an independent cinema in Coral Gables serving travelers and residents who want films outside the mainstream multiplex circuit. Its program is associated with art-house, international, documentary, repertory, classic, and festival cinema.

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• Entertainment venue

Miami-Dade County Courthouse

The Miami-Dade County Courthouse is a historic government building in downtown Miami, Florida. It serves as a functioning courthouse for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida.

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• Historic monument

Miami City Hall

Miami City Hall stands at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove, on the waterfront of Biscayne Bay. The building first served as a Pan American seaplane terminal before becoming Miami’s city hall.

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• Historic monument

Gesu Church

Gesu Church is a Catholic parish church in downtown Miami, Florida. It holds distinction as Miami's oldest Catholic parish, serving the community since the city's early development.

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• Place of worship

Trinity Cathedral

Trinity Cathedral is a historic Episcopal cathedral located on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. It serves as the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.

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• Place of worship

Church of the Little Flower

Church of the Little Flower is a Roman Catholic church in Coral Gables, within the Miami metropolitan area. Its Romanesque Revival design gives the building a strong architectural presence, with rounded arches, substantial masonry, and balanced massing.

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• Place of worship

The Congress Building

The Congress Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Miami. It belongs to the city's early business-district heritage and helps explain how Miami's urban core developed as commerce expanded.

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• Historic monument

The Torch of Friendship

The Torch of Friendship is a bayside civic monument situated on Miami's waterfront. It stands as a public landmark commemorating international friendship and cooperation. The monument features a prominent torch structure visible from surrounding areas.

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• Historic monument

Maurice A. Ferré Park

Maurice A. Ferré Park is a bayfront public green space in downtown Miami, Florida.

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Pace Park

Margaret Pace Park

Margaret Pace Park is a public waterfront park located along Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. The park is commonly referred to as Pace Park by locals.

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Kennedy Park

Kennedy Park is a bayfront public recreation area in Coconut Grove, Miami.

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Legion Park

Legion Park is a public waterfront park on Biscayne Bay in Miami. Its appeal comes from open green space, bay views, and a relaxed setting within the city.

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• Nature site

Morningside Park

Morningside Park is a bayside recreation park in Miami’s Morningside historic district. The park gives the residential neighborhood a green waterfront setting beside Biscayne Bay, with room for informal outdoor time and views over the water.

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• Nature site

Flagler Memorial Monument

Flagler Memorial Monument is an outdoor memorial on Miami's Venetian Islands, honoring Henry Flagler. Flagler was a railroad pioneer whose work transformed Florida's east coast and helped shape Miami's development.

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Venetian Way

Venetian Way is a causeway linking mainland Miami with Miami Beach across Biscayne Bay. The crossing runs through the Venetian Islands, an early twentieth-century chain of artificial islands, and forms an important road connection between the two urban areas.

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• Historic monument