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The Venetian has gondoliers and canals under a trompe l’oeil sky. The water’s also on the second floor! The next earthquake, carry goggles and fins cruising through the lobby!
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A Vegas classic – a kidney-shaped pool at the Stratosphere
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Patriotic, Elvis-loving Vegas cabby
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Escalator beckons Vegas visitor down into neon twilight
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Twilight’s last gleaming on Vegas’s newer glass and steel casinos
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Roman gods wrestle spitting fish in Parisienesque fountain
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Splashing faux Roman fountain lit by pulsating neon
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Phil Knight, eat your heart out. Caesars has a better copy of the Nike of Samothrace Winged Victory sculpture in the Louvre.
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Hip hop love at The Forum’s best Roman fountain
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Real life Lion and Lioness in Winter by MGM Grand golden lion
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How the Flamingo pulsating neon once loomed over the Strip and awed the masses – -- before the wild growth spurt of the 90s.
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Vegas angel trumpets her siren call to gamblers
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Real palms at The Palms
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Hard Rock Café’s giant neon Fender Stratocaster totem
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Luxor pyramid and Phaoronic guardian -- with a soul patch
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New York New York Lady Liberty scaled down a match for hard times
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Eiffel towers over The Parisian
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Caesars and Cher – a marriage made in Mammon. Doesn’t she look like Cleopatra?
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Roman gods wrestle spitting fish in Parisienesque fountain
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Desert jackrabbit sculpture at McCarran Airport
