THE BEST Sights and Attractions in Miami
From iconic landmarks to hidden gems — explore the best sights and attractions in Miami with curated picks, local tips, and free itinerary planning tools.
🏛️ Sights and Attractions in Miami
- Art Deco Historic District — The Art Deco Historic District in Miami Beach's South Beach has over 800 preserved Art Deco buildings from the 1920s-40s, the largest concentration in the world, with pastel colors, neon signs, and geometric shapes along Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue.
- Vizcaya Museum — Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a 1916 Italian Renaissance-style villa on Biscayne Bay, built by James Deering, with 34 decorated rooms, a 10-acre formal garden, and a stone barge. A National Historic Landmark.
- Little Havana — is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Home to many Cuban exiles, as well as many immigrants from Central and South America, Little Havana is named after Havana, the capital and largest city in Cuba.
- Bayside Marketplace — Bayside Marketplace is an open-air shopping center and entertainment complex in Greater Downtown Miami, Florida, United States consisting of two retail structures: North Pavilion and South Pavilion. The complex is situated on the banks of Biscayne Bay, with the City of Miami marina on one side. It was developed by the Rouse Company, a Columbia, Maryland-based real estate developer.
- Perez Art Museum — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as the Miami Art Museum from 1996 until it was renamed in 2013 upon the opening of its new building designed by Herzog & de Meuron at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard. PAMM, along with the $275 million Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and a city park which are being built in the area with completion in 2017, is part of the 20-acre Maurice A. Ferré Park.
- Jungle Island — Jungle Island, formerly Parrot Jungle, is a relaunched eco-adventure park on Watson Island, Miami, Florida, United States. The park re-opened following a series of major renovations after the park incurred damage from Hurricane Irma. The park features new pop-up waterslides, an outdoor wind tunnel flight experience, zip lines, escape rooms, a Nerf battle stadium and other attractions.
- Bayfront Park — Bayfront Park is a 32-acre (13 ha) public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay.
- Freedom Tower — The Freedom Tower in Miami is a 1925 Mediterranean Revival building modeled on the Giralda of Seville, used as a reception center for Cuban refugees in the 1960s. Now a museum and a symbol of Cuban-American heritage.
- American Airlines Arena — The American Airlines Arena (now Kaseya Center) on Biscayne Bay is the home of the Miami Heat NBA team, hosting basketball games, concerts, and events, with a waterfront plaza and views of the bay.
- Coconut Grove — , also known colloquially as "The Grove", is the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is roughly bounded by North Prospect Drive to the south, LeJeune Road to the west, South Dixie Highway and Rickenbacker Causeway to
- Coral Gables — A notable landmark in Miami, worth visiting for its historical significance, architectural character, and cultural interest.
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden — is an 83-acre (34 ha) botanic garden with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees, and vines. It is located in the city of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, just south of Miami, surrounded at the nort
- Matheson Hammock Park — Matheson Hammock Park is a 630 acres (2.5 km2) urban park in metropolitan Miami on 9610 Old Cutler Road, just south of Coral Gables, Florida. The park surrounds the north and western ends of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
- Crandon Park — Crandon Park is an 808-acre (3.27 km2) urban park in metropolitan Miami, occupying the northern part of Key Biscayne. It is connected to mainland Miami via the Rickenbacker Causeway.
- Key Biscayne — is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. It is the southernmost of the barrier islands along the Atlantic coast of Florida, and lies south of Miami Beach and southeast of Miami. The key is connected to M
- Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park — Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Area occupies approximately the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne, at coordinates 25°40′25″N 80°09′34″W. This park includes the Cape Florida Light, the oldest standing structure in Greater Miami. In 2005, Cape Florida was ranked as having the 8th best beach in the country, and in 2013 Forbes ranked it at 7th.