Explore Miami through the places behind its cultural stories. Start with Miami Vice, Moonlight, Scarface, then follow the connections between the works, people and locations in this collection. Use the map to see how the documented locations fit together, and browse the place cards for the story behind each stop. A production location and the place it represents on screen can be different; each connection keeps those details separate. For something happening now, follow the official events programme and confirm dates and access with the organiser before travelling. Build your own route by choosing the stories that interest you most. Return to explore new stories as the collection grows.
televisionPastel: offer Ocean Drive beige and watch Michael Mann refuse it, dress a detective against the wall and push the sleeves up, fly through the hole in the Atlantis, send divers after Elvis the alligator and roll the credits with the preservationists billed first.
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Places connected to There's Something About Mary.
Places connected to Dueños del Paraiso.
Places connected to The Beach Bum.
Places connected to War Dogs (aka Arms and the Dudes).
Places connected to City of Angels.
Places connected to Ballers Television Series.
Places connected to Beautiful.
53 places · 51 mapped locations
He played the Super Bowl XLI half-time show here on 4 February 2007, in the rain.
A working stadium: open for games and concerts.
Fleetwood Mac recorded parts of Rumours in Studio C.
A working studio, not open to visitors. See it from NE 149th Street.
On 12 January 1963 the Harlem Square Club was packed for the live performance and recording of Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963.
Public streets in Overtown. The club is gone; this street runs near where it stood.
The Pepper Fountain in Bayfront Park is a pilot-episode location: the Ice Truck Killer’s second crime scene, with the police tape laid round in the shape of the fountain.
A public park on Biscayne Bay. The fountain is at the Chopin Plaza end; check the park’s calendar, as big events close parts of it.
The series opens with Dexter driving down Ocean Drive past blurred neon, and one sign stands out: the Crescent, at 1420 Ocean Drive.
Walk Ocean Drive and look for the sign; the building is a working resort.
When Debra finds the Ice Truck Killer’s truck, it is parked across the street from the Colony Hotel on Ocean Drive.
See the blue neon from the Ocean Drive pavement; best after dark.
Dexter’s memory of a pumpkin patch and hayride with his dad and sister was shot at Bicentennial Park, 1075 Biscayne Boulevard, the only place with that view of the Miami skyline.
Open daily, 7am to 10pm. Two museums, lawns and the bay walk; no pumpkin patch.
The City of Miami Beach film office says 1250 Ocean Drive is where the series introduces Sonny Crockett, in 1984.
Look from the Ocean Drive pavement or the beach side of the street; the building is a working hotel and condominium.
In the pilot, “Brother’s Keeper”, the building was an Ocean Drive apartment block, home to Tubbs’ brother.
Now a hotel and restaurant. The front steps are on Ocean Drive; the courtyard is for guests and diners.
Miami’s visitor bureau says the bar appeared in Miami Vice several times, and that the cast and crew held the series’ wrap party there.
A working bar: go in.
The City of Miami Beach says the dinner conversation between Crockett, Tubbs and Trini was filmed at 1438 Washington Avenue.
Walk Española Way from Washington Avenue; the hotel wraps the corner.
The fan-event tour route lists the post office as the art museum at the start of “El Viejo”, in season three.
Still a working post office: go in during opening hours and look up at the rotunda.
Barbara Baer Capitman and Leonard Horowitz founded the Miami Design Preservation League in 1976; the district’s buildings were preserved, renovated and repainted.
Open daily, 9am to 5pm, except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The walking tours start here.
Arquitectonica designed the Atlantis, with co-founder Bernardo Fort-Brescia leading; it opened in 1982, with a palm tree in its central opening.
A residents’ building with no public access. See the hole from the Brickell Avenue pavement.
The courthouse appears in the opening credits and in many episodes.
A working courthouse: see the tower from Flagler Street.
The fan-event tour route lists the Freedom Tower as the hitman’s position in “The Hit List” and in the opening chase of “Cool Runnin’”.
Now Miami Dade College’s museum building, with four exhibitions and a weekly public tour; check the college’s page for tickets.
Bayside Marketplace is shown many times in the series.
An open-air waterfront market: walk the bay edge.
The fan-event tour route lists Watson Island in the pilot, “Smuggler’s Blues”, “Lombard”, “One Way Ticket”, “The Fix”, “El Viejo” and “Freefall”.
Drive or cycle the MacArthur Causeway; the island’s edges look across the bay to Downtown.
Vizcaya’s villa appears many times in the series, including in “Whatever Works” and “Heart of the Night”.
Open daily except Tuesdays, 9.30am to 4.30pm; adult admission is $20 while restoration continues.
Morris Lapidus designed the hotel, which opened in 1954.
A working resort hotel. Stay the night; the Fontaine Ballroom itself is for private events.
Music-video filming.
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1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach · Source-recorded area position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Market walk scenes.
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Lincoln Road, Miami Beach · Coordinates awaiting source review
Jewellery store exterior.
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543 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach · Source-recorded address level position; not an exact filming viewpoint or visitor route. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Existing visitor restrictions still apply.
Hospital exterior.
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Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach · Source-recorded area position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Television production venue.
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The Fillmore, Miami Beach · Source-recorded theatre level position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
Fictional commercial sequence.
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1775 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach · Source-recorded address level position; not an exact filming viewpoint or visitor route. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Existing visitor restrictions still apply.
Music-video location.
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1415 Euclid Avenue, Miami Beach · Source-recorded address level position; not an exact filming viewpoint or visitor route. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Existing visitor restrictions still apply.
Character residence.
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1455 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach · Source-recorded address level position; not an exact filming viewpoint or visitor route. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Existing visitor restrictions still apply.
Hotel parking scene.
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1220 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach · Source-recorded address level position; not an exact filming viewpoint or visitor route. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Existing visitor restrictions still apply.
Film location.
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728 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach · Source-recorded registered address site reference position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply.
Pilot meeting location.
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660 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach · Source-recorded registered address site reference position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply.
Directors-cut opening boat race.
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Miami Beach Marina, Miami Beach · Source-recorded marina representative position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply. OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
Elvis driving sequence.
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MacArthur Causeway near Hibiscus Island, Miami Beach · Coordinates awaiting source review
Restaurant featured in programme.
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Joe’s Stone Crab, Miami Beach · Source-recorded area position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Nightclub exterior.
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1 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach · Source-recorded registered address site reference position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply.
Climax filmed in park.
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South Pointe Park, Miami Beach · Source-recorded site-centre position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Steak challenge.
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5225 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach · Source-recorded registered address site reference position; not a surveyed filming viewpoint or visitor route. Existing visitor restrictions apply.
Police chase corridor.
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Julia Tuttle Causeway, Miami Beach · Source-recorded area position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Bus scenes.
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41st Street Bridge, Miami Beach · Approximate whole-bridge reference for the eastern 41st Street crossing over Indian Creek, identified in the archived Miami Beach municipal film guide. Derived at half cumulative distance along FDOT bridge 870055’s published WGS84 polyline; not a source-recorded point or pixel-georeferenced map position. The western Biscayne Waterway bridge 870054 is excluded. No exact bus-stunt/camera position, unchanged film-era structure, entrance or road-access permission is asserted. Florida Department of Transportation, published bridge geometry; derived approximate position. Archived City of Miami Beach film-guide identity.
MovieMaps lists Miramar High School in its filming-location catalogue for Moonlight. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Miramar High School, Miami · MovieMaps location 7ga llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists Northwest 63rd Street & Northwest 13th Court in its filming-location catalogue for Moonlight. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Northwest 63rd Street & Northwest 13th Court, Miami · MovieMaps location 7lp llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists Jimmy's Eastside Diner in its filming-location catalogue for Moonlight. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Jimmy's Eastside Diner, Miami · MovieMaps location 7g9 llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists Port Miami Bridge in its filming-location catalogue for Reminiscence. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Port Miami Bridge, Miami · MovieMaps location cpm llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists N Miami Ave in its filming-location catalogue for Rock of Ages. The production-site association and current access await review.
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N Miami Ave, Miami · MovieMaps location 1vs llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists Castle Beach Club in its filming-location catalogue for Rock of Ages. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Castle Beach Club, Miami · MovieMaps location 1vp llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
MovieMaps lists Ocean Surf Hotel in its filming-location catalogue for American Crime Story. The production-site association and current access await review.
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Ocean Surf Hotel, Miami · MovieMaps location 9jr llat/llng; source-recorded site centre, geography review pending; not a surveyed viewpoint.
The same official production-specific story node explicitly identifies Port Miami Tunnel as an actual filming site for War Dogs (aka Arms and the Dudes). Its published native geometry is a general named-site reference, not an exact camera/entrance. Preserve source-dependent culture/geography facets and all prior site points.
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The same official production-specific story node explicitly identifies Crandon Park Marina as an actual filming site for The Beach Bum. Its published native geometry is a general named-site reference, not an exact camera/entrance. Preserve source-dependent culture/geography facets and all prior site points.
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The same official production-specific story node explicitly identifies Redfish Grill at Matheson Hammock Park as an actual filming site for There's Something About Mary. Its published native geometry is a general named-site reference, not an exact camera/entrance. Preserve source-dependent culture/geography facets and all prior site points.
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· Approximate named-site reference from the linked source; not a surveyed filming viewpoint. Current access is unverified.
The same official production-specific story node explicitly identifies Mokai Lounge as an actual filming site for Dueños del Paraiso. Its published native geometry is a general named-site reference, not an exact camera/entrance. Preserve source-dependent culture/geography facets and all prior site points.
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Jay Ferguson’s recording of “City of Angels”, released on “Real Life Ain’t This Way”, was recorded at Bayshore Recording Studios.
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The official county film office identifies this county-headquarters building as an actual filming site for the specific Ballers television series identified in source node n-LhUaJu. Geography is a dependent named-site reference, not camera/entrance certification.
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Kylie Minogue, Enrique Iglesias’s recording of “Beautiful”, released on “Sex and Love”, was recorded at South Point Productions.
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Pastel: offer Ocean Drive beige and watch Michael Mann refuse it, dress a detective against the wall and push the sleeves up, fly through the hole in the Atlantis, send divers after Elvis the alligator and roll the credits with the preservationists billed first.
Explore Moonlight through the Miami locations documented by the linked sources.
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Slides: run Dexter’s breakfast routine to turn up the real Miami, guess Miami or Long Beach from the palms, follow the crews’ yellow Slice signs and file every place on a glass slide, through Iron Lake’s April snow to a Hudson pier.
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Falsetto: push Barry’s voice up a fader of ten real places until it breaks into falsetto at Criteria and the page goes high and thin; greet the fairies at the Manx bridge, sing live when the Gaumont record breaks, stamp four sets of initials into B.G., roll over the causeway joints until Drive Talking reads Jive Talkin’.
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Splice: cut leader into the demo that became The Chain, lock a worn master by ear, march 112 players into the Dodger Stadium outfield.
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Pads: a drum machine of twelve real places, played by one man.
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Fan: turn over a rack of church fans to find his places, rewrite Wonderful as Lovable under a borrowed name, sign his own ledger and wipe 22 years of dust off the Harlem Square tape.
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Lift: trade Easter verses at New Hope, step out of the backing line, count the anthem in four, hold her voice until the band comes in, then light three South African stadiums.
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