Ziff Ballet Opera House is located on a large outdoor plaza in Miami, next to other US historical landmarks. The seating capacity of this Opera House is 2,400 seats. It features a foreground and state-of-the-art technical capabilities for hosting Broadway plays and musicals. Moreover, it has an education center.

The Freedom Tower is a seventeen floor structure located on the Wolfson campus of Miami Dade College. It has become the symbol of freedom to Cuban refugees who fled the communist regime of Fidel Castro to Florida.
The Freedom Tower was built in Mediterranean revivalist style in 1925. It housed the offices and printing facility of the newspaper called the Miami News. The design closely resembles that of the Giralda Tower in Seville, Spain. It has a height of 78 meters and the cupola once had a decorative beacon. The Miami News offices relocated in 1957 and the US Federal Government used the tower as a processing center for refugees fleeing from the communist regime in Cuba during the 1960s. Jorge Mas Canosa, the founder of the Cuban National American Foundation purchased Freedom Tower and converted it into a monument for Cuban refugees in 1997. It had a museum, library, a convention center and the offices of the Cuban National American Foundation.
Today, Freedom Tower belongs to the Miami Dade University and is used as a cultural and educational center. The university has plans to house a permanent exhibition commemorating the major newspaper that was once published here and with exhibits relating to the days when Freedom Tower served as a major Cuban refugee processing center.

The Torch of Friendship is a monument located at the northwest corner of Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. It was opened in 1960 to welcome the friends and neighbors of Florida from the Caribbean and South America.
The Torch of Friendship was installed by the City of Miami to signify the city’s status as the gateway to the Caribbean. The inscription on the monument reads, ‘The Torch of Friendship dedicated by the City of Miami to the everlasting friendship of our neighboring countries.’ It has a gas fired torch installed at the top of an 18 foot pedestal with an everlasting flame that was meant to be a welcoming beacon for visitors and immigrants.
The Torch of Friendship was rededicated four years after its installation to the memory of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The burning candle was regarded as an extension of the candle that burns in the gravesite of the former president in Arlington. Today, the candle has stopped burning. Some believe that it was a deliberate act, while others reckon that the gas pipe that supplied fuel to the fire has been damaged. Recently, the Torch of Friendship Monument has become the venue for gatherings, commemorations and peaceful protests against national and international injustices.

Bayfront Park is a large green space in downtown Miami sprawled near the financial district and the American Airlines Arena. It is located on Biscayne Bay and is the venue of many commemorative events.
Bayfront Park covers an area of 32 acres. The city of Miami acquired a strip of waterfront land from the Florida East Coast Railway and established Bayfront Park. The first designs were by architect Warren Henry Manning and it was opened to the public in 1925. In 1980, the park was extensively remodeled by the Japanese American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi, who is largely considered to be one of America’s great twentieth century artists.
Bayfront Park is now managed by a limited agency of the City of Miami, called the Bayfront Park Management Trust. It is the venue of many important celebrations like the Independence Day Celebrations and the Official New Years Eve party. There is an amphitheater in the park that seats over 10,000 people. A small open air pavilion, called the Tina Hills Pavilion, has a seating capacity for 1000 people. In the southeast corner of the park is a monument dedicated to the astronauts who lost their lives in the tragic space accident in the 1980s.

The Miami Art Museum is dedicated to contemporary art, reflecting the diverse cultures of Miami. The emphasis is on showcasing art from Europe, the Americas and Africa representing the three major ethnic populations of the city.
The Miami Art Museum was established in 1984 as the Center for Fine Arts. In 1996, the name was changed to the Miami Art Museum. In 2010, the construction of a new building to house the museum began in Museum Park. The new facility is designed by Swiss firm, Herzog and de Meuron. The new museum will cover an area of 20,000 square feet and is expected to be open for public viewing in 2013. It is expected to be world class repository of contemporary art and a center for visual arts information and education.
The present museum has a vast collection of 20th and 21st century works from the 1940s to the present. Over 60,000 visitors come to the Miami Art Museum annually. It also hosts local, national and international temporary exhibitions of theme based modern art. Visitors and groups need to book in advance to go on a guided tour conducted by an artist or art expert for an in-depth understanding of the exhibits.

Perricone's is an Italian market where you can buy anything ranging from meat to cheeses, prepared salads and wines. The Perricone's Marketplace has an indoor and outdoor cafe – a great place to have a rest and a snack after a long walk.

This primarily residential high rise building in downtown Miami has become iconic in the city after being featured in the television series, ‘Miami Vice’. Though it is not the highest building in Miami, it is regarded as the most stylish structure in the city.
The Atlantis Condominium was designed by the firm Arquitectonica. It was completed in 1982 and had 96 luxury condominium units in 20 floors. It has a glass façade, a primary color scheme and a modernist design. The structure is 300 feet long and there are only 6 units on each floor. Each unit is spacious and commands spectacular views yet provides great privacy to its wealthy residents. Some units have city views while others get the view of the bay. When it was constructed, it set the standards for luxury living in Miami.
The notable part of the building is the Palm Court. The sky court, called the Palm Court, is a hollow portion in the middle of the structure that covers five floors. A red spiral staircase, a Jacuzzi and a palm tree are found here, giving residents the feeling of being on the beach indoors. The unique building by Arquitectonica earned them the credit of breathing life back into the architecture of Miami.

The former Villa Vizcaya is now the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. It is the large mansion owned by James Deering, a wealthy industrialist whose family made their fortune in manufacturing harvesters.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens was constructed between 1914 and 1916. Originally the estate covered 180 acres. After Deering’s death in 1925, his heirs valiantly attempted to preserve the estate but were forced to sell a major portion. They generously sold the Villa and about 50 acres of land together with uniquely landscaped gardens at a lower than market price to Miami Dade County to be preserved as a museum for future generations.
10 acres of the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens contain the formal Italian renaissance landscape. The rest of the land is native forest called Hammock. The villa has 70 rooms each decorated distinctively with 15th to 19th century European antiques, artwork, furnishings and furniture. It has been featured in many movies including Any Given Sunday and Airport ’77. Vizcaya was also the venue of important events like the reception given to Pope John Paul II by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 on the Pope’s visit to Miami and when 34 leaders from the Americas met for the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA summit convened by President Bill Clinton.

The Miami Science Museum is both entertaining and educational and an enjoyable experience for visitors of all ages. It is a very popular attraction in the city and a new building to house the museum is being constructed to showcase its many exhibits and is expected to be completed in 2014.
The Miami Science Museum began as a small private not for profit organization called the Junior Science Museum in 1949. It was a major attraction in the city and relocated to several larger buildings until 1960 when the Miami Dade County built the present museum for free on 3 acres of the Vizcaya Complex. In 2011, Philip Frost, a native of Miami donated 35 million dollars to construct a new building in the Bicentennial Park which is the largest donation given for a cultural institution in the city.
The present Miami Science Museum consists of a planetarium that was built in 1966. It hosts the Jack Horkheimer’s Star Gazer the only television series on naked eye astronomy in the world and also contains the Weintraub observatory and a wildlife center. Exhibits include a Stingray Sea Lab, Earth from Space, Fuels of the Future and Moving Things. The Museum also hosts events for children like birthday parties.