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The Henry B. Plant Museum occupies the south wing of the former Tampa Bay Hotel, built in 1891 by railway magnate Henry B. Plant in Moorish Revival style with silver minarets; the rest is now the University of Tampa. Restored rooms show the hotel's Gilded Age furnishings, art and guests' life.

Bayshore Boulevard runs about 7 km along Hillsborough Bay from downtown Tampa to Gandy Boulevard. Its balustraded sidewalk, about 7.6 km long, is among the longest continuous sidewalks in the United States and is used by walkers, runners and cyclists, with views across the bay and of the historic houses of Hyde Park.

Clearwater Beach is a barrier-island beach on the Gulf of Mexico in Clearwater, about 30 km north-west of St. Petersburg, with fine white quartz sand. Pier 60 reaches into the Gulf and hosts a nightly sunset gathering with street performers, and a beachfront promenade runs past hotels and restaurants.

The St. Pete Pier reaches about 400 metres into Tampa Bay from downtown St. Petersburg and opened in 2020 in place of the inverted-pyramid pier of 1973. Along its 26 acres are a playground, a splash pad, a beach, a fishing deck, a Tampa Bay Watch discovery centre, restaurants and a rooftop at the pierhead.

The Museum of Fine Arts on Beach Drive, opened in 1965, has an encyclopaedic collection from antiquity to the present: Greek and Roman antiquities, Asian and pre-Columbian art, European paintings by Monet, Renoir and Morisot, American art and photography. Its Hazel Hough Wing opened in 2008.

The St. Petersburg Museum of History, at the entrance to the Pier District, has told the city's story since 1922. Exhibits cover the Tocobaga people, early settlement and the 1914 St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line, the first scheduled airline, shown with a full-size replica of its Benoist flying boat.

The Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement opened in 2023 in a five-storey building in downtown St. Petersburg, built to house the collection of Rudy Ciccarello. Its galleries show furniture, pottery, metalwork, lighting, textiles and prints from about 1890 to 1930, by makers such as Gustav Stickley and Tiffany Studios.

The Florida Holocaust Museum in downtown St. Petersburg was founded in 1992 by Walter and Edie Loebenberg. Its permanent exhibition documents the persecution and murder of Europe's Jews, using survivors' testimony and objects, among them a boxcar used for deportations; other galleries cover later genocides and human rights.

The Dalí Museum on the St. Petersburg waterfront holds the largest collection of Salvador Dalí's work outside Europe, gathered by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse, with about 300 oil paintings, drawings and sculptures. The building of 2011 by HOK has concrete walls broken by a free-form glass bubble called the Enigma and a spiral staircase.

The Imagine Museum on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg opened in 2018 and is devoted to contemporary studio glass. Its 21 galleries show works by American and international glass artists from the 1960s studio glass movement to the present, from blown vessels to large sculptures and installations.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge carries Interstate 275 across the mouth of Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg and Terra Ceia. The cable-stayed main span, 366 metres long with yellow cables on two central pylons, opened in 1987 to replace the cantilever bridge struck by a freighter in 1980; parts of the old bridge remain as fishing piers.

Fort De Soto Park, at the mouth of Tampa Bay south of St. Petersburg, is a Pinellas County park spread over five islands. It has Gulf beaches, two fishing piers, kayak trails and camping, and the coastal fort built in 1898 for the Spanish–American War, whose 12-inch mortars are the only ones of their kind left in the United States.

Fort Lauderdale Beach is the Atlantic Ocean beach of Fort Lauderdale, on the barrier island east of the Intracoastal Waterway. State Road A1A and a seaside promenade run along the sand, with hotels and restaurants on the landward side; Las Olas Boulevard reaches the beach at its eastern end.

Bonnet House is a historic house museum on a 35-acre estate between the beach and the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale. Artist Frederic Clay Bartlett built the plantation-style house in the 1920s on land given to him and his wife Helen in 1919; his second wife Evelyn wintered there until 1997. Visitors see the furnished rooms, art and gardens.

Las Olas Boulevard is an east–west street in Fort Lauderdale that runs from the downtown business district to State Road A1A at the beach. Its central section, known simply as Las Olas, is lined with low-rise shops, galleries, bars and restaurants; further east it crosses the Intracoastal Waterway and the residential isles.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum on Las Olas Boulevard, founded in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center and now part of Nova Southeastern University. Its 1986 building by Edward Larrabee Barnes shows a collection of over 7,500 works, including ceramics and prints by Picasso, Latin American and Cuban art and works of the CoBrA movement.

Stranahan House is the oldest surviving building in Broward County, on the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Built in 1901 as Frank Stranahan's trading post, where Seminole families came to trade, it became the home of Frank and Ivy Stranahan in 1906. Now a historic house museum, it is shown by docents with period furnishings.

The Museum of Discovery and Science is a science museum in downtown Fort Lauderdale, at its present site since 1992. Its exhibits cover the Everglades, prehistoric Florida, storms and water, with live animals such as river otters, plus flight simulators and an IMAX theatre. The EcoDiscovery Center wing, opened in 2011, doubled the exhibit space.

Flamingo Gardens is a 60-acre (24 ha) botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary in Davie, west of Fort Lauderdale, begun in 1927 by Floyd and Jane Wray as a citrus grove and weekend home. It has more than 3,000 species of tropical and subtropical plants, enclosures with native Florida animals and birds, a narrated tram ride and the Wray Home museum.

Dolly Parton's Stampede on 76 Country Boulevard is a dinner theatre in an arena where guests eat a four-course meal while riders, horses, buffalo and performers stage a show of trick riding, races and music. Opened as Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, it took its current name in 2018, when the show dropped its Civil War theme.