At Versace's Mansion, rates START at $749 per night.

Serial killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Gianni Versace on the front steps of the fashion designer's Miami Beach mansion in 1997, and now those stone steps provide the backdrop for dozens of tourist photos on a daily basis.

But not only can tourists (and fans of FX's upcoming American Crime Story miniseries, which focuses on the murder) photograph the house, they can stay there overnight.

Modern Miami is a symbol of the arts and culture; it boasts a stream of new design hotels, historic landmark properties like Vizcaya, and serves as a hub for Art Basel. But there is one architectural wonder South Beach is best known for: Casa Casuarina, also known as the Versace Mansion. The home was made famous by fashion designer Gianni Versace when he purchased the property in 1992. Oddly enough, he wasn't looking for it–the late designer discovered the estate by chance during a quick visit to Miami to visit his sister, Donatella, on his way to Cuba.

But how did the villa become an apartment building? Or come to be adorned with some of the most lavish interiors the U.S. has ever seen? According to Casa Casuarina's history of the property, it was originally built by Alden Freeman, heir to Standard Oil Trust, the Rockefeller's company. Freeman retired at the age of 27 to travel and made his way to Florida and the Dominican Republic, where he fell in love with the Alcazar De Colon in Santo Domingo, built by Christopher Columbus' son, Diego.

Upon his return to Miami, Freeman built Casa Casuarina as an homage to the Alcazar De Colon. The property was divided into apartments, aimed at housing a community of artists and bohemians Freeman dreamed of living amongst. He lived on the top floor until his death in 1937, after which the home was purchased for $100,000 by Jacque Amsterdam, who renamed the complex "Amsterdam Palace." Amsterdam was responsible for installing an elevator and moving the statue of Kneeling Aphrodite ( for which the home is known) to the front terrace. Coincidentally, it was that Grecian statue which caught the eye of Gianni Versace on that first walk through South Beach with Donatella.

The apartment complex passed through a number of owners until Versace laid eyes on it in 1992 and transformed it into one of the country's grandest mansions. Along with the Casa Casuarina, Versace also purchased Hotel Revere on the lot next door for $3.7 million. Hotel Revere later became the site of Versace's garden, epic swimming pool, and the home's south wing.

Scroll down for a look inside the boutique luxury hotel known as the Villa Casa Casuarina.

The three-story building was originally built as an apartment complex by Mayflower descendant and Standard Oil heir Alden Freeman in 1930.

In 1992, Versace purchased the original house for $2.95 million and the Revere Hotel next door for $3.7 million. He spent an astonishing $32 million on renovations that included demolishing the Revere to make way for a pool, garden, and new south wing of the home.

Versace turned the 24 apartments into 10 large suites in the original house.

The designer built an additional two suites in the south wing.

He lined the pool with 24-karat gold tiles.

The Victor Hotels group paid $41.5 million for the property at a 2013 auction. (Donald Trump reportedly put in a bid, too.)

In addition to the guestrooms, it operates the restaurant Gianni's, which "offers a delicious blend of Italian and Mediterranean food and wine selections." Decadent dishes include gnocchi di granchio, with New Orleans blue crab, vermouth wine, shallots, parmigiano-reggiano, truffles, and filetto di manzo rossini, with eight-ounce Wagyu filet mignon, pomme confit, grilled asparagus, pan-seared foie gras, and Bordelaise jus.

The Signature Suite

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Reservations are required for dinner, but guests can walk into the bar for drinks.

The Onyx Bar at The Villa Casa Casuarina

American Crime Story was filmed over the course of about a month at the hotel.

Producer Ryan Murphy told the New York Post he couldn’t believe that he received permission to shoot the series there. "I don’t think I could have made the show if I couldn’t have gotten that house,” he said. “There was no way you could build [a set] of it. Two of the rooms were made out of seashells. [Gianni Versace’s sister] Donatella [Versace] took all the furniture and the art when she sold the house, but through pictures, we were able to recreate them."

A resident artist maintains the artwork that Versace commissioned for the property.

"We actually have preserved what Versace created here and just augmented it with some modern touches for the convenience of our hotel guests and restaurant patrons," Chauncey Copeland, the hotel’s general manager, told the Associated Press.