Bayfront Park

A busy venue for concerts, ethnic festivals and huge Independence Day, New Year's Eve and Winter Holiday celebrations. A 100-foot white metal pipe tower commemorates the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, in which all seven crew members died following the shuttle's explosion 73 seconds after takeoff. North is a plaza marked by the JFK Torch of Friendship and adorned with statues of Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de León, along with plaques representing Caribbean, South and Central American countries (except Cuba, naturally).