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...

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 -...

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...

Possibly the most beautiful swimming pool in the world, even if it is jammed on hot days. It combines an impossibly idyllic setting (tropical foliage, waterfalls, Italian...

The Versace Mansion, aka the Amsterdam Palace, is a flashy (of course) three-storey Italianate palace built in 1930, which was supposedly modelled on Christopher Columbus's...