Coconut Grove is Miami’s original neighborhood — the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the city, founded in the 1820s, and still, after two centuries, the most beautiful. The banyan-canopied streets wind beneath a canopy so dense that midday feels like dusk, past historic estates, waterfront parks, and a village center that has been reinvented more times than any neighborhood in South Florida without ever losing the thing that made it magnetic in the first place: the feeling of being somewhere that cannot be replicated.

The Grove’s identity is layered. Dinner Key Marina — the largest wet-slip marina in the continental United States — anchors the waterfront with hundreds of sailboats and the particular culture of people who prefer wind to engines. CocoWalk, once a 1990s nightlife destination, has been reimagined as a walkable, design-forward retail and dining village. Park Grove, the Rem Koolhaas-designed condominium towers, has brought an entirely new caliber of architecture to the neighborhood’s skyline. And the residential streets — especially in the South Grove — contain some of the most extraordinary private homes in the Southeastern United States, hidden behind coral rock walls and mature tropical landscaping on lots that feel closer to botanical gardens than suburban parcels.