Discover Miami
Miami in 16 stops, from the Art Deco hotels of Ocean Drive across the bay to Wynwood's murals, downtown, Little Havana and the lighthouse at the tip of Key Biscayne. 9 of them are free. Take them in order and the 3D map flies you there.
1. Ocean Drive and the Art Deco District
The pastel hotels along Ocean Drive and the streets behind it are the world's largest collection of Art Deco buildings, saved from demolition by local campaigners. Best at dusk, when the neon comes on.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
2. South Pointe Park
The southern tip of Miami Beach: a pier, a lawn, a beach and the best seat for watching cruise ships leave the port in the late afternoon.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
3. Lincoln Road
A pedestrian street of shops and cafés running across South Beach from the bay towards the ocean, laid out by Morris Lapidus.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
4. The Bass
Miami Beach's contemporary art museum, in an Art Deco former library in Collins Park, a short walk from the beach and the Convention Center.
5. Fontainebleau Miami Beach
Morris Lapidus's curving 1950s resort hotel on Mid-Beach, the model of Miami Beach glamour, and home to LIV nightclub.
6. Wynwood Walls
Warehouse walls turned into an open-air gallery of murals by street artists from around the world, at the heart of the Wynwood arts district.
7. Miami Design District
Designer shops, public art and architecture a few blocks north of Wynwood, with the free ICA Miami museum in the middle.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
8. Pérez Art Museum Miami
The art museum on the bay in Museum Park, with shaded terraces and hanging gardens looking out over Biscayne Bay.
9. Freedom Tower
A Spanish-revival tower on Biscayne Boulevard that processed Cuban refugees in the 1960s and 70s: Miami's own Ellis Island.
Fly there in 3D · Wikipedia · Free
10. Bayfront Park
Downtown's park on the bay, next to Bayside Marketplace, with the amphitheatre and the city's New Year's Eve fireworks.
Fly there in 3D · Wikipedia · Free
11. Brickell
Miami's financial district and its forest of glass towers. The free Metromover loops through it on an elevated track: the cheapest skyline tour in town.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
12. Little Havana
The heart of Cuban Miami along Calle Ocho: cafecito windows, cigar rollers, the Walk of Fame and the domino players of Máximo Gómez Park.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
13. Vizcaya
James Deering's Italian-style villa and formal gardens on the bay in Coconut Grove, built in the 1910s.
14. Venetian Pool
A public pool in Coral Gables cut from an old coral-rock quarry, with waterfalls, grottos and Venetian-style towers.
15. Rickenbacker Causeway
The causeway to Key Biscayne, with the best view back at the downtown skyline; cyclists ride it at dawn.
Fly there in 3D · Price and hours · Wikipedia · Free
16. Cape Florida Light
The lighthouse at the southern tip of Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade's oldest standing building, in a state park with a beach and trails.
Photos are freely licensed (Creative Commons or public domain) and credited under each one; the words are ours. Check opening hours with each place before you go.