Miami Landmarks Guide: Hours, Addresses and Who Runs Each One

Five Digital Towns guides cover Miami landmarks, Vizcaya, the Freedom Tower, Coral Castle, Jungle Island and the Wynwood Walls, and the Biscayne Bay guide covers the national park on the bay; the table gives each one's address and opening basics.

Opening details in the table come from each operator: Vizcaya (Vizcaya), Miami Dade College for the Freedom Tower (Freedom Tower), Coral Castle (Coral Castle), Jungle Island (Jungle Island), the Wynwood Business Improvement District for the Art Walk (Wynwood BID) and the National Park Service for Biscayne (NPS hours). Two of the six sit outside the City of Miami: Coral Castle and the Biscayne National Park visitor center both carry Homestead addresses in south Miami-Dade County.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the National Park Service website, the City of Miami website, the Miami-Dade County website and each landmark operator's own website.

Vizcaya, at 3251 South Miami Ave. in Miami, opens every day except Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Miami-Dade County owns it while a nonprofit trust runs it (Vizcaya).

The estate is a National Historic Landmark and accredited museum. Its Main House keeps original furnishings in 34 rooms, it has ten acres of landscaped gardens and the historic Vizcaya Village, and it reports more than 385,900 visitors a year (Vizcaya). Day to day operation belongs to Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with added funding from the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. The main phone is 305.250.9133.

The Tuesday closure does not rule out every Tuesday visit. Vizcaya's ticket page lists a Vizcaya Live string quintet evening on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and a Halloween Harvest Farmers Market in Vizcaya Village on Sunday, October 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Vizcaya tickets). Tickets are sold online through the same page, which also links to a Sunday Farmers Market page. The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens guide covers the house, gardens and directions in detail.

The Freedom Tower at 600 Biscayne Boulevard is a National Historic Landmark managed by Miami Dade College (National Park Service), and it can be visited with a ticket bought through the college (Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College).

The National Park Service records that the tower opened on July 26, 1925 as the home of the Miami News, reaches 17 stories with more than 82,000 square feet of space, and borrows its shape from the Giralda tower of the Cathedral of Seville (National Park Service). From 1962 through 1974 it held the Cuban Assistance Center, the role for which the park service says it is considered the Ellis Island of the South, and the City of Miami names it among the high style buildings in its historic preservation program (City of Miami).

Miami Dade College calls the building Miami's first skyscraper and says the renovated tower now holds four museum exhibitions; the visitor line is 305-237-7700 and the email is freedomtower@mdc.edu (Freedom Tower). The college's events list for the coming weeks includes a MOAD and Kinetic Family Day on Sunday, October 18, 2026 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The college posted a closure for Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2026 (Freedom Tower). The Freedom Tower guide in this section, and the Freedom Tower and immigration guide in the Miami history section, go deeper.

Coral Castle is in Homestead in south Miami-Dade County and opens daily at 9 a.m., while Jungle Island on Parrot Jungle Trail in Miami opens every day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Coral Castle; Jungle Island).

Coral Castle stands at 28655 S. Dixie Highway in Homestead, ZIP 33033, and Jungle Island at 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, Miami 33132 (Jungle Island). Coral Castle says Edward Leedskalnin built it alone from 1923 to 1951, moving and carving massive limestone blocks, some weighing several tons, including a balanced 9-ton gate (Coral Castle). The site posts two daily schedules: one closing at 8 p.m. with the last tour at 7 p.m., and one closing at 7 p.m. with the last tour at 6 p.m. The phone is (305) 248-6345. Its collection pages show tools from the build, among them a rock hammer used to smooth the coral rock and a generator made from a Model T engine block.

Jungle Island's general admission starts at $22.95 and covers Treewalk Village, wildlife exhibits, an Everglades habitat playground and the Manu Aviary; animal encounters start at $65 and run daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and last general admission is at 4 p.m. (Jungle Island). VIP encounters need an online reservation. The covered garage charges a flat $20 a day, tickets sell at the park and online, and the main line is (305) 400-7000. The park bills itself as a South Florida tradition for 80 years. The Coral Castle guide and the Jungle Island guide carry the full visitor detail.

The Wynwood Walls open free of charge from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. during the Wynwood Art Walk, which in October 2026 fell on Saturday, October 10 (Wynwood BID).

The Wynwood Business Improvement District's Art Walk page says more than 400 Wynwood businesses, including galleries, independent shops, breweries and restaurants, contribute to the experience (Wynwood BID). The BID lists the Wynwood Walls Museum, the Museum of Graffiti, the Paradox Museum and several galleries among participating venues, and its phone is 786.615.8828. Outside Art Walk evenings, hours, ticket prices and parking for the Walls are in the Wynwood Walls 2026 visitor guide.

Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center is at 9700 SW 328th Street in Homestead, reached from the Florida Turnpike or US Highway 1, and opens seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (NPS directions; NPS hours).

The park protects coral reefs, mangrove forests, Biscayne Bay, the northern Florida Keys and 10,000 years of human history, and guided eco-adventures leave from the Dante Fascell Visitor Center (Biscayne National Park). The Convoy Point grounds, with the canoe and kayak launch, are open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, and the navigable waters are open 24 hours; the NPS hours page was last updated April 28, 2021, so a call before a trip is worthwhile (NPS hours).

There is no entrance fee at Biscayne National Park. Day use docking at Boca Chita Key and Elliott Key costs $25 Friday to Monday and on federal holidays (NPS fees). The park phone is 786-335-3620. The Biscayne Bay guide, filed in the Miami environment section, covers the bay itself and its protections.

A building inside the City of Miami becomes a local landmark by designation in the Miami Register of Historic Places, which holds over 100 individual sites and 10 local districts under Chapter 23 of the City Code (City of Miami).

Miami-Dade County keeps its own list through its Office of Historic Preservation, which oversees 141 individually designated historic sites, 46 archaeological sites and zones, and eight historic districts (Miami-Dade County). National status is separate again: the Freedom Tower carries both National Register and National Historic Landmark designations (National Park Service), and the Miami Circle at 401 Brickell Avenue joined the National Register in 2001 (City of Miami).

Smaller landmarks are spread through the neighborhoods. The city preservation page places Bahamian style frame houses in Overtown and along Charles Avenue in Coconut Grove, notes rusticated concrete block buildings that can still be seen in Little Havana, and describes the Miami Circle as the southern part of a Tequesta village that stood on both banks of the Miami River (City of Miami Historic Preservation).

For a quick check, the City of Miami preservation page advises speaking to preservation staff before work on a historic property and points to an archived city website for its list of historic sites, which it says is under construction as of October 15, 2026 (City of Miami).