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This famous stretch of Hollywood Beach runs from South Sunset Road to Sheridan, where 2.5 miles (4 km) of shops, bars, and restaurants abound, best of all the French-Caribbean fusion of Sugar Reef.

The Broadwalk

This long barrier island of gardens and forests commands views of busy Port Everglades and a beach historically significant as one designated for African-Americans, in the days of segregation. It’s now a gay destination (see Gay and Lesbian Venues).

Exhibits here include dinosaur fossils, dioramas of prehistoric Florida, African wood-carvings, Pre-Columbian pottery figures, Minoan bronzes, Egyptian statuary, and Native American collections. The museum’s usually a big hit with kids.

Fort Lauderdale’s main street boasts upscale shops and excellent eateries. At the river end, Las Olas Riverfront is a colorful theme mall, from which the Riverfront Canal Cruise departs (see Gold Coast Highway A1A).

This period home (built 1920) is full of the personality of the couple who created it, Frederic and Evelyn Bartlett. They were both artists, as is evident from the highly original murals, and the somewhat eccentric tropical gardens.

An informative center, with a boardwalk that winds through mangroves and hammocks (raised areas) in Red Reef Park. It takes its name from the gumbo limbo tree, which has distinctive, red peeling bark.

The street for local and visiting VIPs to select this week’s wardrobe and perhaps a little objet d’art.

The “Taj Mahal of America,” was Henry M. Flagler wedding gift to his third wife, who was half his age and an heiress herself. The trappings of royalty are everywhere, down to the hand-painted dinner service that once belonged to a French king.

The third hotel to be built on this site, the first two having burned down. However, the aura of America’s Gilded Age (1880–1910) still clings to every aspect of this stylish abode , from the frescoed Italianate ceilings to the countless crystal chandeliers.

Perhaps Florida’s finest museum of art, featuring Impressionists, Modern Americans, and much more.