Explore Las Vegas

The Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall covering five blocks of Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, the city's original casino district. Opened in 1995, it is roofed by a barrel-vaulted canopy about 420 metres long that carries the Viva Vision LED screen, used for light-and-music shows in the evening; stages, casinos and the SlotZilla zip line line the street.

The Mob Museum, officially the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, opened in 2012 in the former federal courthouse and post office of 1933 in downtown Las Vegas. Its exhibits trace organised crime and the people who fought it; a 1950 Senate hearing on the mob was held in the building's courtroom. A speakeasy and distillery fill the basement.

The Neon Museum, founded in 1996, keeps retired signs from Las Vegas casinos, motels and shops. Most stand in the outdoor Neon Boneyard, seen on guided or self-guided visits, some relit after dark. The visitor centre is the shell-shaped lobby of the La Concha Motel, designed by Paul Revere Williams in 1961 and moved here from the Strip.

The STRAT SkyPod is the observation pod of the Strat Tower, opened in 1996 as the Stratosphere at the northern end of the Strip. At 350 metres it is the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States. Indoor and outdoor decks lie about 260 metres up; above them, thrill rides hang over the edge and SkyJump drops guests on a cable.

The Springs Preserve covers 73 hectares around the springs that once watered the Las Vegas Valley and gave the city its name, 'the meadows'. Opened in 2007, it has desert botanical gardens, walking trails, the Origen Museum on the valley's natural history, and the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas on the same grounds.

The Erotic Heritage Museum opened in 2008 on Sammy Davis Jr. Drive, a block west of the Strip. Its 2,200 square metres of galleries present the history of human sexuality through art, photography, artefacts and film, and it also hosts a stage show. Admission is for adults aged 18 and over with photo identification.

Sphere is a spherical entertainment venue east of The Venetian resort, opened in September 2023. The building is 112 metres high and 157 metres wide; its outer shell carries about 54,000 square metres of programmable LED panels. Inside, some 17,500 seats face a wraparound screen used for concerts and for purpose-made films such as The Wizard of Oz at Sphere.

The Las Vegas Strip is the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South, about 6.8 km long, lined with the large casino resorts, most of it outside the city limits in the towns of Paradise and Winchester. It runs from the Strat Tower in the north past Caesars Palace, the Bellagio and its fountains to Mandalay Bay in the south, and is at its busiest after dark.

The High Roller is an observation wheel 167.6 metres tall at the east end of The LINQ Promenade, between the Strip and Interstate 15. Opened in 2014, it carries 28 glass cabins, each holding up to 40 people, and a full rotation takes about 30 minutes, with views along the Strip and across the valley to the mountains.

The National Atomic Testing Museum, which calls itself the Atomic Museum, opened in 2005 on East Flamingo Road. It tells the history of nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site, north-west of Las Vegas, from 1951 to 1992, with instruments, film, a simulated blast in the Ground Zero Theater and exhibits on the Manhattan Project.

The Eiffel Tower at the Paris Las Vegas resort is a half-scale replica of the Paris landmark, 165 metres tall, built for the resort's opening in 1999 and standing partly inside the casino building. A lift takes visitors to an observation deck 46 storeys up, facing the Fountains of Bellagio across the Strip.

The Fountains of Bellagio are a choreographed fountain display in the 3.5-hectare lake in front of the Bellagio resort on the Strip, opened with the resort in 1998. More than 1,200 nozzles and shooters send water up to about 140 metres high in time with music and lights, in shows every half hour in the afternoon and every 15 minutes in the evening.

The Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens is a glass-roofed atrium beside the lobby of the Bellagio resort, opened with it in 1998. A team of horticulturists replaces the whole display five times a year, for Chinese New Year, spring, summer, autumn and the winter holidays, with tens of thousands of flowers, trees and large themed figures.

The Big Apple Coaster is a steel roller coaster that winds around the replica Manhattan skyline of the New York-New York resort on the Strip. It opened with the resort in 1997; its yellow cars, styled as New York taxis, climb about 62 metres, loop and twist past the towers and reach about 108 km/h. The station is inside the resort's arcade.

Shark Reef Aquarium is a public aquarium at the Mandalay Bay resort, at the south end of the Strip, opened in 2000. A walk-through route passes tanks of sharks, rays, sea turtles, jellyfish and reef fish, piranhas and crocodiles, ending at a large tank crossed by a glass tunnel, set in the ruins of a sunken temple.

Allegiant Stadium is a domed football stadium in Paradise, just west of the Strip across Interstate 15, opened in 2020. It is the home of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders and the UNLV Rebels and seats about 65,000 under a translucent roof, with large side doors opening towards the Strip. It hosted Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 and also stages concerts.

The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign stands in the median of Las Vegas Boulevard south of the Strip resorts. Designed by Betty Willis and put up in 1959, the diamond-shaped neon sign with silver-dollar letters was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. A small car park beside it lets visitors stop for photographs.