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This Broadway musical was transplanted to a custom-built theater inside the Venetian, complete with a souped-up chandelier, where it ran for more than 2600 performances. | |
The original home of the Poker Hall of Fame, this still-operating downtown casino and gambling hall was the original home of the World Series of Poker. | |
The Las Vegas Valley is located in this desert, which spans parts of four US states and is the only known habitat for the Joshua tree. | |
This famed ancient stadium serves as inspiration and namesake for the longtime primary entertainment venue at Caesars Palace. | |
Vegas closes the Strip to car traffic and celebrates this holiday with more than 80,000 choreographed fireworks shot off from 7 resorts. | |
LASVEGAS is an anagram for this word, meaning ''recovers, as a shipwreck'' or ''extracts some value from an otherwise worthless situation or object.'' | |
Named by Spanish traders (who passed through but did not settle in Las Vegas), the city's name is literally translated as this. | |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this author's most noted work, chronicles a drug-fueled road trip taken by its main characters, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo. | |
This major clothing e-retail firm relocated its headquarters to the former City Hall building in 2013 and injected considerable money into revitalizing downtown Las Vegas. | |
Spawning a trilogy and instantly cementing itself in Vegas cultural lore, this 2009 film features the exploits of four friends celebrating a bachelor party in Las Vegas. | |
Since 2011, this massive dance music festival has held its flagship event in the Las Vegas desert each June, drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees. | |
Vegas has become the ''capital of the world'' for this type of religious or civil ceremony, accounting for roughly 5% of all such licenses issued in the USA annually | |
Las Vegas features a museum dedicated to this element (atomic number 10), or perhaps more accurately to the historic signs that it fuels. | |
This team became Las Vegas' first major professional sports franchise on October 6, 2017 when they played their inaugural game against the Dallas Stars. | |
Set in Las Vegas, this popular CBS procedural drama was finally canceled in 2015 (after 15 seasons) and inspired multiple spin-offs set in other cities. | |
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