For a taste of the old Homestead, with its abundant fruit orchards and crop fields, visit the family-run Knaus Berry Farm. You can still pick your own strawberries and tomatoes...

This picturesque park has an artificial atoll pool flushed by the tidal action of Biscayne Bay that's good for safe, quiet bathing. For lunching, the Red Fish Grill is housed...

This zoo was once considered one of the best in the country, but Hurricane Andrew took its toll in 1992. Though it hasn't returned to its former heights, it's not for want of...

A lovely and underused stretch of pristine beach lined with sea grape trees, sand dunes, a boardwalk, a Vita exercise course and amenities such as changing rooms, picnic tables...

The largest urban park in the state, covering around 1,000 acres, Oleta River is another of those splendid natural wonders that manage to exist in the shadows of condo canyons...

Not strictly an attraction but a working halfway house for seabirds rescued after being injured by fish hooks or nets. Staff are available to show visitors around 9am-noon and...

A small island reachable by private boat or, on weekends, a free 35-seat public boat. Expect barbecue grills, picnic tables, volleyball nets, horseshoe pits and - of course -...

Parrot Jungle Island, which occupied this site for more than 60 years, flew the coop in 2001 to a $50-million complex on Watson Island. Although the owners took their...

South Florida has a thriving orchid industry, and RF Orchids is its most renowned nursery. In fact, its owner, Robert Fuchs, was dubbed 'the king of the orchids' by author...

A throwback to Florida's fruit stands of old, Robert is Here started in 1959 when the shop's namesake, then six, began selling his family's cucumbers from a roadside table. It...

At South Beach's Scratch Academy local DJs teach courses in the basics, blending and mixing, and scratching. For the latter, take a lesson from DJ Craze. The Nicaraguan-born...

From April to September, Florida beaches host the largest gathering of nesting sea turtles in the United States. Their numbers have diminished over the years because of the...

Built in the mid 1100s near Segovia, Spain, this monastery was occupied by Cistercian monks for 700 years before it was converted to a granary and stable. In 1924, newspaper...

A sleepy residential enclave, less than a mile square, clotted with two- and three-storey apartment buildings and boasting little to entice visitors save the promise of less...