A tour of the much lauded hotels on Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue in Miami is reason enough to pass through the Art Deco District, but while there make sure you reserve some time to visit the Wolfsonian– Florida International University, the acclaimed museum of decorative arts. Housed in a 1927 Mediterranean Revival storage warehouse, the museum focuses on American and European objects from 1885 to 1945, when profound social, political and technological changes revolutionized the world. Head upstairs to the fifth floor, where selections from the permanent collection, "Art and Design in the Modern Age," are on view. Paul Frankl’s Skyscraper Bookcase from 1926 echoes the spires of New York’s nascent skyline in alternating levels of dark cabinetry and celebrates the progress assured by these marvelous manmade structures. (via Elements of Living)