GPS City Guide

Miami is unlike any other American city. Born in 1896 when Henry Flagler extended his railroad to a remote tropical outpost, it exploded into one of the twentieth century's great resort destinations, then reinvented itself again and again — as a Cuban exile capital, a cocaine-fueled boomtown, a global arts hub, and today a magnet for international wealth and climate-conscious anxieties. This tour moves through Art Deco hotels, fragrant with salt air on Ocean Drive; through Little Havana's Calle Ocho, where dominoes click and café cubano flows; through Wynwood's warehouse murals and Vizcaya's Italianate gardens. Miami rewards slow attention. Listen closely and you'll hear five languages in a single block.