Must-see attractions in South Florida & the Keys

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    Fairchild Tropical Garden

    Miami

    If you need to escape Miami’s constant motion, consider a green day in one of the country’s largest tropical botanical gardens. A butterfly grove,…

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    Biltmore Hotel

    Miami

    In the most opulent neighborhood of one of the showiest cities in the world, the Biltmore is the greatest of the grand hotels of the American Jazz Age. If…

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    Vizcaya Museum & Gardens

    Miami

    If you want to see something that is 'very Miami', this is it – lush, big, over the top, a patchwork of all that a rich US businessman might want to show…

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    Everglades National Park

    The Everglades

    Encompassing 1.5 million acres, this vast wilderness is one of America's great natural treasures. As a major draw for visitors to South Florida, your…

  • Anhinga Trail Boardwalk through the Everglades National Park, Florida.

    Anhinga Trail

    Everglades National Park

    If you do just one walk in the Everglades, make sure it's on the Anhinga Trail. Gators sun on the shoreline, anhinga spear their prey and wading birds…

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    Wolfsonian-FIU

    South Beach

    Visit this excellent design museum early in your stay to put the aesthetics of Miami Beach into context. It’s one thing to see how wealth, leisure and the…

  • Tourists and locals enjoy cocktails while viewing the sunset from pier at Mallory Square.

    Mallory Square

    Key West

    Take all those energies, subcultures and oddities of Keys life and focus them into one torchlit, family-friendly (but playfully edgy), sunset-enriched…

  • Coral Castle

    Everglades National Park

    ‘You will be seeing unusual accomplishment,’ reads the inscription on the rough-hewn quarried wall. That’s an understatement. There is no greater temple…

  • Museum of the Everglades

    Everglades National Park

    For a break from the outdoors, don't miss this small museum run by volunteers who have a wealth of knowledge on the region's history. Located in the town…

  • Bahia Honda State Park

    Florida Keys

    This park, with its long, white-sand (and at times seaweed-strewn) beach, named Sandspur Beach by locals, is the big attraction in these parts. As Keys…

  • Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden

    Key West

    Nancy, an environmental artist and fixture of the Keys community, invites you into her backyard oasis where chatty rescued parrots and macaws await…

  • Fakahatchee Strand Preserve

    Everglades National Park

    The Fakahatchee Strand, besides having a fantastic name, also houses a 20-mile by 5-mile estuarine wetland that looks like something from the beginning of…

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Miami Beach, USA - January 22, 2015: People running and walking on Miami Beach Boardwalk

    Miami Beach Boardwalk

    Miami

    Ahhh the Miami Beach Boardwalk! Stretching seven miles from South Point to Surfside, the parade of humanity you'll encounter on any given day will take your…

  • Flying to Dry Tortugas National Park

    Dry Tortugas National Park

    Florida Keys

    Dry Tortugas National Park is America's most inaccessible national park. Reachable only by boat or seaplane, it rewards you for your effort in getting…

  • The Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach.

    Holocaust Memorial

    South Beach

    Even for a Holocaust piece, this memorial is particularly powerful. With over 100 sculptures, its centerpiece is the Sculpture of Love and Anguish, an…

  • Miami, FL, USA - April 19, 2019: The Art Deco Museum on Ocean Drive at the historical Art Deco District of Miami South Beach in Miami, Fl, United States of America.
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    Art Deco Museum

    South Beach

    This small museum is one of the best places in town for an enlightening overview of the art deco district. Through videos, photography, models and other…

  • MIAMI BEACH - FLORIDA - USA, OCTOBER 30: the New World Center which opened in 2011 and was designed by architect Frank Gehry and acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota on october 30 2012 in Miami beach, Florida.
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    New World Center

    South Beach

    Designed by Frank Gehry, this performance hall rises majestically out of a manicured lawn just above Lincoln Rd. Not unlike the ethereal power of the…

  • Ernest Hemingway home and museum. Key West. Florida. USA

    Hemingway House

    Key West

    Key West’s biggest darling, Ernest Hemingway, lived in this gorgeous Spanish Colonial house from 1931 to 1940. Papa moved here in his early 1930s with his…

  • The buildings along Ocean Drive, South Beach - Miami, Florida

    South Beach

    South Beach

    When most people think of Miami Beach, they're envisioning South Beach (SoBe). This area is rife with clubs, bars, restaurants, models and a distinctive…

  • Art Deco Historic District

    South Beach

    The world-famous art-deco district of Miami Beach is pure exuberance: an architecture of bold lines, whimsical tropical motifs and a color palette that…

  • Keywest, Florida, United States, January 17 2018:The Studios Of Key West

    Studios of Key West

    Key West

    This nonprofit showcases about a dozen artists’ studios in a three-story space, and hosts some of the best art openings in Key West on the first Thursday…

  • Miami Florida USA - April 11 2018:  People Enjoying the Trellis Landscape of Soundscape Park Miami
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    SoundScape Park

    South Beach

    Outside of the New World Center, this park is one of the best places for open-air screenings in Miami Beach. During some New World Symphony performances,…

  • Coral Gables, Florida - February 24, 2010: The Kampong, winter residence of the famed horticulturalist Dr. David Fairchild
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    Kampong

    Miami

    David Fairchild, the Indiana Jones of the botanical world and founder of Fairchild Tropical Garden, would rest at the Kampong (Malay/Indonesian for …

  • Sloppy Joe's Bar, Duval Street, Key West, Florida, USA

    Duval Street

    Key West

    Key West locals have a love-hate relationship with the most famous road in Key West (if not the Keys). Duval, Old Town Key West’s main strip, is a miracle…

  • Miami, United States of America - November 30, 2019: Cardozo Hotel at Ocean drive in Miami Beach, Florida. Art Deco architecture in South Beach is one of the main tourist attractions in Miami.
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    Cardozo Hotel

    South Beach

    The Cardozo and its neighbor, the Carlyle, were the first deco hotels saved by the Miami Design Preservation League, and in the case of the Cardozo, we…

  • Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters

    Florida Keys

    A visit to this small, interactive aquarium starts with a free 20-minute guided tour of some fascinating marine ecosystems. There are also more immersive…

  • Crane Point Museum

    Florida Keys

    This is one of the nicest spots on the island to stop and smell the roses. And the pinelands. And the palm hammock – a sort of palm jungle (imagine…

  • Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center

    Key West

    This 6000-sq-ft center is one of the best places in the Keys to learn about the extraordinary marine environments of South Florida. Start off with the 20…

  • No Name Key

    Florida Keys

    Perhaps the best-named island in the Keys, No Name gets few visitors, as it’s basically a residential island. It’s one of the most reliable spots for Key…

  • Ancient Spanish Monastery - Miami, Florida

    Ancient Spanish Monastery

    Miami

    Finding a fully intact medieval monastery in North Miami Beach is yet another reason why the moniker 'Magic City' seems so fitting. Constructed in 1141 in…

  • Miami Beach, FL, Bass Museum

    The Bass

    South Beach

    The best art museum in Miami Beach has a playfully futuristic facade, a crisp interplay of lines and a bright, white-walled space – like an Orthodox…

  • Shark Valley

    Everglades National Park

    Shark Valley sounds like it should be the headquarters for the villain in a James Bond movie, but it is in fact a slice of National Park Service grounds…

  • Key West, Florida - December 4, 2019:  People tan and rest on the sunny beach of Fort Zachary Taylor State Park in tropical Key West Florida USA

    Fort Zachary Taylor State Park

    Key West

    ‘America’s Southernmost State Park’ is home to an impressive fort, built in the mid-1800s that played roles in the American Civil War and in the Spanish…

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    Key West Cemetery

    Key West

    A darkly alluring Gothic labyrinth beckons at the center of this pastel town. Built in 1847, the cemetery crowns Solares Hill, the highest point on the…

  • Beach entrance at Oleta River State Park in North Miami Beach, FL
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    Oleta River State Park

    Miami

    Tequesta people were boating the Oleta River estuary as early as 500 BC, so you’re following a long tradition if you canoe or kayak in this park. At…

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Fort East Martello Museum & Gardens

    Fort East Martello Museum & Gardens

    Key West

    This old fortress was built to resemble an old Italian Martello-style coastal watchtower (hence the name), a design that quickly became obsolete with the…

  • Casa Antigua the Key West's first car dealership and Ernest Hemingway's first Key West residence.

    Casa Antigua

    Key West

    This former hotel (known as the Trev-Mor), built in 1919, was where Hemingway and Pauline first stayed after returning from Paris in 1928.

  • PINECREST, FLORIDA, USA: Water lily garden at Pinecrest Gardens a lush exotic botanical garden as seen on May 23, 2021.

    Pinecrest Gardens

    Miami

    When Parrot Jungle – now Jungle Island – flew the coop for the big city, the village of Pinecrest purchased the property in order to keep it as a…

  • MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA USA  - APRIL 21, 2013: The historic Fontainebleau Hotel by architect Morris Lapidus on Miami Beach is a popular international tourist destination.
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    Fontainebleau

    Miami

    As you proceed north on Collins, the condos and apartment buildings grow in grandeur and embellishment until you enter an area nicknamed Millionaire’s Row…