Miami Highlights
A curated tour of Miami's most iconic neighborhoods, from Downtown's skyline to South Beach's Art Deco streets.
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This 1925 Mediterranean Revival tower processed over 250,000 Cuban refugees in the 1960s, earning it the nickname 'Ellis Island of the South.' Its design was modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Designed by Pritzker Prize winners Herzog & de Meuron, the building is wrapped in hanging gardens and elevated on stilts to withstand storm surge. It overlooks Biscayne Bay in Museum Park.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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This open-air waterfront mall opened in 1987 and once doubled as the marina backdrop for Crockett's houseboat on 'Miami Vice.' Boat tours to celebrity homes depart right from its docks.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Developer Tony Goldman transformed a cluster of derelict warehouses into an open-air street art museum in 2009. Over 130 artists from more than 30 countries have painted its ever-changing murals.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Once a forgotten furniture warehouse row, this neighborhood now blends luxury flagship stores with major public art, including Buckminster Fuller's geodesic 'Fly's Eye Dome.' Free outdoor sculptures line nearly every block.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Nicknamed 'Domino Park,' this Calle Ocho gathering spot has hosted Cuban exiles playing dominoes over coffee and cigars since the early 1970s. It's named for a hero of Cuba's War of Independence.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Industrialist James Deering built this 1916 Italian Renaissance-style villa on Biscayne Bay, complete with a stone 'barge' breakwater shaped like a ship. Its 34 rooms hold furnishings spanning the 15th to 19th centuries.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Miami's oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood, settled in 1825, was once a bohemian hub compared to New York's Greenwich Village. Free-roaming peacocks still wander its namesake Peacock Park.
📍 Miami, Florida, United States
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Opened in 1926 with a tower modeled on Seville's Giralda, this hotel once had the world's largest swimming pool, where Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller taught lessons. It served as a World War II military hospital before returning to hospitality.
📍 Coral Gables, Florida, United States
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Carved from a coral rock quarry in 1924, this is the only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It's spring-fed, refilled with fresh water daily, and once hosted orchestra concerts on its drained floor.
📍 Coral Gables, Florida, United States
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This Key Biscayne park holds the oldest standing structure in Greater Miami, the 1825 Cape Florida Lighthouse. In the early 1820s it was also a departure point on the Underground Railroad, where fugitive slaves fled by boat to freedom in the Bahamas.
📍 Key Biscayne, Florida, United States
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Home to the world's largest concentration of Art Deco architecture, this district's 960-plus pastel buildings were nearly demolished in the 1970s before preservationist Barbara Baer Capitman rallied to save them. Fashion designer Gianni Versace's Ocean Drive mansion sits within its boundaries.
📍 Miami Beach, Florida, United States
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