The Atlas Obscura Guide To Miami

27 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Miami, Florida

Updated June 4, 2025

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Unusual Attractions in Miami

Coral Gables, Florida

Venetian Pool

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Key Biscayne, Florida

Neptune Memorial Reef

An underwater city for the dead.

January 2024

North Miami Beach, Florida

The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Pegasus crushes a dragon beneath his hooves.

Hallandale Beach, Florida

Pegasus and Dragon

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

The museum as viewed from the street.

Miami Beach, Florida

World Erotic Art Museum

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Monkey Jungle entrance. (Flickr)

Miami, Florida

Monkey Jungle

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The Kampong, Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

The Kampong

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

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Miami, Florida

Burger Museum

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

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Stories About Miami

Travel to Miami, and you might hear people say "get down from the car" instead of "get out of the car."

'Make a Party' as a New English Dialect Emerges in South Florida

A linguist explains how loanwords and direct translations known as calques are reshaping the sound of Miami and beyond.

by Phillip M. Carter, Atlas Obscura

February 5, 2024

Welcome to the pine rocklands, one of the world's most endangered habitats.

Visiting One of the Last Fragments of Miami's Eccentric Native Forest

Pine rockland grows on the most stable land in Florida, which is why it’s doomed.

by Sabrina Imbler, Atlas Obscura

January 29, 2020

Bessie Stringfield, "The Motorcycle Queen of Miami."

Bessie Stringfield, the Black Motorcycle Queen of the 1930s

She owned 27 Harleys and rode them all over the United States, before settling in Miami.

by Natalie Zarrelli, Atlas Obscura

Welcome to Miami Beach.

'Miami English' and the Linguistic Oddness of South Florida

South Beach speech is like no other.

by Dan Nosowitz, Atlas Obscura