Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key is an abandoned 1963 concrete grandstand that faces a sheltered lagoon across Biscayne Bay from Key Biscayne. The stadium was built for motorboat racing and water spectacles, and its cantilevered roof — designed to give every seat an unobstructed view — made it an engineering landmark of its time. Shuttered since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, it has been left to decay while Miami-Dade County and preservationists argue over its future.
In the decades since it closed, the stadium has become one of the largest outdoor canvases for graffiti art in the Americas — the interior walls are entirely covered in murals by artists from around the world. The stadium is not officially open to the public, but it is visible from the water and from Virginia Key's north shore. Kayakers who paddle around Virginia Key get the best views of the ruined grandstand from the lagoon.