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Miami Attractions Tropical
Fun Center and Planet Paintball Fantastic fun for the whole family, this amusement park offers paint ball, bumper cars, mini golf and fun, fun, fun!! The mini golf offers an 18 hole and features 2 huge waterfalls, long fairways and many interesting traps, hazards and water challenges. Coral Castle Years of mystery surround the coral castle with many wondering how it ever came to be. Rumours say that it was built by a slight man, Ed Leedskalnin, who found himself alone with nothing to occupy himself after he lost his true love. What noone understands is how he managed to carve each individual slab of coral rock to build such a magnificent structure. Coral Castle is made up of over 1000 tons of rock! GameWorks
Created as the quintessential entertainment destination, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, it delivers a great social experience around games. Features a full bar and the Gameworks Grill, a full service restaurant serving a wide selection of entrees. Admission is free; in order to play games guests must purchase a game card. Martin
Z. Margulies Sculpture Park The Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park displays over 70 works in a variety of media distributed throughout the 26.5 acres of the FIU campus. It is recognized nationally as one of the world's most important collections of sculpture and the largest on a university campus. It includes major pieces by Dubuffet, Miro, Nevelson, Noguchi and Serra. The Sculpture Park is largely comprised of works on long-term loan or permanently gifted from the collection of internationally prominent Miami collector Martin Z. Margulies. Sculptures from the Florida Art in State Buildings program join the Margulies Collection to create a wonderfully rich and important representation of modern sculpture. The Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park is open year-round, free of charge. Miccosukee
Indian Village Just 30 minutes west of the Florida Turnpike, in the heart of the beautiful Florida Everglades, is the Miccosukee Indian Village. It provides valuable insight into the rich culture, lifestyle and history of the Tribe. Observe Miccosukee Indians as they engage in the art of woodwork, beadwork, patchwork, basket weaving and doll making. View historical artifacts, paintings by a Tribal artist and historical photographs of Tribal members at the Miccosukee Museum. Be captivated as Tribesmen perform live demonstrations with alligators. Explore the Everglades on airboat rides, which pass through the untamed “River of Grass” and stop at an authentic, hammock-style Indian Camp that has been owned by the same Miccosukee family for over 100 years. Discover the beauty of native plants and view alligators, birds and other species of wildlife in their natural habitat. The Ancient
Spanish Monastery The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1141. It was originally dedicated in honor of the Blessed Mother and named the "Monastery of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels." Upon the canonization of the famous Cistercian Monk, Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading influence in the Church during that period, the Monastery was renamed in his honor. Cistercian monks occupied the monastery for nearly 700 years. The cloisters were seized, sold, and converted into a granary and stable due to a social revolution in that area in the mid 1830's. In 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters and the Monastery's outbuildings. The structures were dismantled stone by stone, bound with protective hay, packed in some 11,000 wooden crates, numbered for identification and shipped to the United States. The stones remained in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, for 26 years. One year after Hearts' death in 1952, they were purchased by Messrs. W. Edgemon and R. Moss for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months and almost $1.5 million dollars to put the Monastery back together. Some of the unmatched stones still remain in the back lot; others were used in the construction of the present Church's Parish Hall.
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