12/12/2023 0 Comments Things to do in vegas 2022![]() Tucked inside the Rio, come be a “Strutter” with a putter among 13,000 square feet of space filled with museum-quality KISS concert memorabilia, a non-stop KISS soundtrack, trivia challenges, vintage KISS pinball machines, and more. Get ready to rock ‘n’ roll all night and putt-putt ev-e-ry day at the only entirely KISS-themed mini golf course on Earth. Then head to the basement and make a toast to “justice” in the on-site speakeasy. Hop on a guided tour any day of the week-or better yet, night, when clever lighting gives you a sense of the glowing glory of a historic chapter in this city’s buzzing lifespan.īizarro Bonus: For a very different view of Vintage Vegas, hoof it a half-mile to The Mob Museum, which showcases both sides of the notorious battle between organized crime and law enforcement, here in Las Vegas and around the U.S. You’ll recognize some, even if you’ve never seen them in person: Caesars Palace, the Moulin Rouge Hotel, the Golden Nugget…the list goes on. More than 800 rescued historic neon sign pieces from 200+ Las Vegas properties sprawl across the nearly two-acre Boneyard. What began as a storage site for defunct neon signs has grown into the full-fledged Neon Museum, complete with a visitor center located in the salvaged and refurbished mushroom cloud-shaped La Concha Motel lobby. ![]() This is another museum that could only exist in Las Vegas. Among its detailed, interactive displays, don’t miss rare oddities like an authentic (and huge) nuclear reactor, a backpack nuke, and other “personal” atomic weapons-plus dozens of artifacts from actual nuclear tests.īizarro Bonus: Monthly tours depart from the museum to the Nevada National Security Site, including to Survival Town, a cute little village-complete with mannequin versions of picture-perfect 1950s families-constructed to test the bombs’ impact on an actual “neighborhood.” Tours involve high security and higher demand, but are well worth forfeiting your phone for a few hours-and booking well in advance. Today, Las Vegas carries on that fire at the National Atomic Testing Museum-a Smithsonian Institute affiliate-which investigates the science, history, and pop culture of one of our nation’s more controversial periods. Interestingly, this sparked an allure and launched a bizarre, new kind of tourism-watching blasts while clinking glasses-something that only could have happened in Nevada. When the threat of nuclear weapons loomed during the 1950s, a whopping 928 atomic tests were performed in Nevada. Then explore vintage-meets-hip Fremont Street, whose #WeirdNevada bona fides include the world’s largest hunk of gold and a fire-breathing praying mantis sculpture that debuted at Burning Man. This tour isn’t for the faint of heart hence the requirement that you sign a medical waiver upon entry.īizarro Bonus: Be sure to eat, shop, and art-hop around the Las Vegas Arts District, AKA 18b, as you wander among Graffiti Art Gallery Alley, funky Antique Alley, art studios, and more. ![]() The museum houses 30 rooms packed with seriously spooky artifacts-from Sharon Tate’s wedding dress to an entire room full of bedeviled puppets-as well as a collection of what are rumored to be the most cursed objects on Earth. In 2017, the eccentric Zak Bagans of Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures converted a 1938-built mansion-reputedly afflicted with spirits, thanks to on-site deaths and rumors of bizarre basement rituals-into a paranormal paradise. In the heart of Vintage Vegas, just a mile off Fremont Street, lies one of Las Vegas’ oldest haunts-literally. (To honor your day, we recommend something on the rocks). It’s free to visit 24 hours a day, so you can show up and rock out any time you want.īizarro Bonus: Twenty minutes south, Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino is the final resting place of the bullet-ridden Bonnie and Clyde “Death Car.” Meanwhile, ten minutes west of I-15, Goodsprings Ghost Town’s self-guided walking tour through haunted history winds up at the storied Pioneer Saloon, where Clark Gable’s cigarette burns and spooky tales are reason enough to raise a glass. The temporary art installation, produced in 2016 by the Nevada Museum of Art, is the work of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, who went to extravagant measures to source and shape enormous native Nevada boulders before busting out the heavy machinery to stack them just oh-so-perfectly. These polychromatic petro-pillars have become something of a cult classic photo-op stop, and rightfully so. Rising from the wide-open desert just 20 miles south of the Strip are seven 11-story-tall rock towers, whose fluorescently painted boulders gleam in conspicuous contrast to their natural desertscape backdrop.
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