Often called the American Riviera, Miami Beach, a string of 17 natural and artificial islands, is a landscape of hotels, palm trees, golf courses, and tennis courts where you can rub elbows with models and movie stars. Immortalized in the 1950s when Hollywood starlets would sun themselves on the beaches of luxury hotels, it has gained new life with the restoration of 1930s art deco buildings along South Beach and 1950s hotels on Central Beach, as well as being the setting for numerous television shows and movies. Rising like a phoenix, it has once again become a playground for the famous and the beautiful.