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Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
This opulent Italian Renaissance-style villa was built for industrialist James Deering in 1916. The villa brims with 15th- to 19th-century furniture, tapestries, paintings and decorative arts, while the seaside grounds feature splendid gardens, beautiful fountains, sculptures, elegant pools, a charming gazebo, canals running everywhere and lots of trails.
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Wings Over Miami
Plane-spotters will love this Tamiami Airport museum. Highlights include a propeller collection, J47 jet engine and a Soviet bomber from Smolensk. An impressive exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen features videos of the black pilots telling their own stories. Historic bombers and other craft drop in for occasional visits, so you can never be sure what you'll see.
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Wolfsonian
Even folks bored stiff by rooms full of furniture will want to cultivate some aesthetic space after visiting this excellent design museum, which manages to chronicle the interior evolution of everyday life architecturally manifested by Sobe's exterior deco.
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World Erotic Art Museum
You might be unfazed by the bare flesh on the beach, but there is likely to be something that will faze you at the World Erotic Art Museum, with an amazingly extensive collection of naughty and erotic art, decorative items and even furniture depicting all sorts of parts and acts.
