Tacky neon signs are as much a part of the Vegas landscape as strippers and slot machines and yet, when a casino closes, the signs not sold at auction usually retire to the dump. Well, until recently that is. Now the signs are being rescued, restored and relocated to a ‘Neon Boneyard,’ which has been… Read More Neon Boneyard: Where Signs Go to Die
Considering Las Vegas is a city that promotes living in excess and overindulgence, it really shouldn’t have surprised me to see this sign hanging above a restaurant doorway: But it did. In fact, it stopped me in my tracks. It was a sign for the newly-opened ‘Heart Attack Grill’, which my friend and I came… Read More Only in America: Obese Eat Free at the Heart Attack Grill
In Sin city, anything goes. Drinking in public, prostitution, gambling, smoking in bars and ferrets. Wait, what? Ferrets? Yep, you may not know this but in addition to relaxed social norms in relation to public intoxication, Nevada is also one of only 20 states that allows people to buy and sell exotic animals. Though owning… Read More Monkeying Around at an Exotic Pet Shop in Vegas
Last weekend I watched tourists pay $16 a person to be escorted in a gondola up and down a canal…by an opera singer. This might have been something I would’ve considered doing if: 1. We’d been in Venice 2. The ‘canal’ hadn’t resembled one of those lazy river rides at Wet n’ Wild As it… Read More The One Tourist Attraction in Vegas I’ll Never Understand