Miami

Transient visitors looking for a change of weather, relief from their cares, and freedom to dream have long defined Miami’s cultural crossroads. A stone structure discovered at the mouth of the Miami River in 1998 indicates that native hunter-gatherers, who fled to the shorelines each year to escape the ferocious Everglades mosquito season, enjoyed a permanent encampment on the site of present-day Miami for over a thousand years before Juan Ponce de León entered Biscayne Bay in 1513, searching for the Fountain of Youth.