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Las Vegas
While famous crooners like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin helped make Las Vegas famous, not a lot of that jazzy, swinging postwar era remains in modern Sin City. The Italian American Club is a notable, welcoming exception. It features a friendly lounge, a pasta-centric restaurant and frequent live music.
It's long been a bastion of the Italian-American families who moved to town for the casino and hotel trade. For bocce fanatics, there are courts out back in an adjacent city park.
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Owned by the eponymous Hollywood studio, the MGM Grand casino and hotel liberally borrows Tinsel Town's themes. Flashing LED screens and computerized…
The STRAT Hotel, Casino and SkyPod
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Vegas has many buildings more than 20 storeys tall, but only Stratosphere (now officially The STRAT Hotel, Casino and SkyPod, but still 'the Strat' to…
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Angular and glittering gold, massive Mandalay Bay flanks the far south end of the Strip. It's the first resort many visitors lay eyes on as they roll into…
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Running between The LINQ Hotel & Casino and the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, the LINQ Promenade is a partially-covered outdoor pedestrian walkway…
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The myth and mystique of mobsters from Bugsy Siegel to Al Capone get the museum treatment inside a hulking Downtown courthouse where real gangsters sat…
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We’ve seen this symbiotic relationship before (think giant hotel anchored by a mall ‘concept’), but the way that this futuristic-feeling complex places a…
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Caesars Palace claims that its smartly renovated casino floor has more million-dollar slots than anywhere in the world, but its claims to fame are far…
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The Venetian's regal 120,000-sq-ft casino has marble floors, hand-painted ceiling frescoes and 120 table games, including a high-limit lounge and an…
1. Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel
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Even if you're not contemplating tying the knot, it's worth a peek inside this little assembly-line wedding chapel of loooove to see if anyone is getting…
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An incubator for up-and-coming fashion designers and local artisans, the edgy Container Park, fronted by a giant metal grasshopper, stacks pop-up shops on…
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Offering the original Elvis impersonator wedding (from $199) for over 50 years. If it’s good enough for rock stars, then it’s probably good enough for you…
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Head to the unabashedly retro El Cortez, Vegas' oldest continuously operating casino, on the National Register of Historic Places. Going strong since 1941…
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As you're strolling or bar-hopping the vibrant Fremont East District, be sure to pop your nose in to this hub for local artists to see who's in residence.
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With the only walk-up (and drive-thru) wedding window in Vegas, plus a cathedral-style chapel, this newly built place also arranges weddings at scenic…
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A hub for the arts in Vegas' up-and-coming Arts District, Art Square contains 16 creative, retail and professional spaces as well the Cockroach Theater,…
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Las Vegas' fractured art scene received an enormous boost in the late 1990s, when commercial photographer Wes Isbutt established this arts complex…