Street View shows a fan taking a picture of the memorial pole. (i.e., Bally's), walk east about 1/3 of a mile (about 7 minutes). From the southeast corner of the Strip and Flamingo Rd. The famous rapper was shot to death in 1996 near the Strip, and there's a makeshift memorial in the form of a telephone pole covered in graffiti by fans. ( WaPo) Your editor buys only Fair Trade chocolate.) (Know that most of the world's chocolate is produced with child labor, and much of that slave child labor. Certified by Guinness World Records, it circulates two tons of chocolate per minute and is 27 feet tall. Much of the Ocean's Eleven movie was filmed here, including the final scene in front of the fountains. Readers tell me it's the #1 must-see in Vegas. Garden is a dazzling mix of plants, architecture, and lights, which changes with the season. Every day it takes 27 person-hours to clean. Glass sculpture, featuring 2000 hand-blown glass blossoms that weigh about 40,000 pounds, supported by a 10,000-pound steel armature, all by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. See the $10 million, 2100 square foot ceiling Shows begin at Noon on the weekends and 3:00pm M-F, running every half hour until 8:00pm, and then every 15 minutes through midnight. The Las Vegas Sun says it cost $40 million to build.

Amazing choreographed water fountains, set to popular music, right in front of the Bellagio hotel. Spanning two stories, there's probably not a more impressive chandelier installation anywhere. Artists featured include Maya Hayuk, Marilyn Minter, Rosemarie Fiore, Alex Da Corte, Jonathan Borofsky, Nicola Lopez, Siobham Liddell, Sylvia Hommert and many others.' There's also an Art-o-Mat vending machine, that vends small pieces of art. Designed to inspire discovery, the collection includes large-scale paintings, photography, mixed media works, sculptures, murals and more. 'Hundreds of contemporary art works by both established and emerging artists from all over the world can be found throughout The Cosmopolitan. In the lobby: 'Eight 15-foot digital columns and a panel spanning the length of the front desk continuously display a curated library of digital art, transforming the space into an immersive living narrative that incorporates elegant, fantastical and often poetic interpretations of life's travels.' Note, reportedly reservations are highly recommended. The light-themed art is supposed to be mind-bending. Tell the staff at the Louis Vuitton store in the Crystals shopping center City Center (next to Aria) that you want to see the art, and they'll have you take an elevator to the fourth floor. The original was installed in New York City in 1989, and now a private foundation has installed them in a handful of cities, including Vegas. A billboard that constantly ticks up the current amount of the national debt, including the share per person. That's the only huge guitar sign left in Vegas since the Hard Rock Casino became Virgin Casino. The guitar sign adorning the outside of the Hard Rock Café just north of the Showcase Mall is an impressive three stories tall.

More store than museum, but they do have a few artifacts, and you can snap a selfie with the polar bear. Towering four stories high, it adorns the outside of the shopping center. The bronze lion outside the MGM Grand is 45 feet tall, weighs 50 tons, and is the largest bronze sculpture in the country. (It's about 9 minutes to the sign, but it's visible way before then.) From the Tropicana, walk east about five minutes. Because this is Vegas, it's got the most elaborate Motel 6 sign anywhere, huge and sparkly. The Excalibur's architecture is a throwback to the time of King Arthur. To get there, the hotel elevators travel diagonally along the inside edge of the pyramid. Inside, the rooms are all on the perimeter of the pyramid, with the center being a huge open-air atrium, and looking down from the aisle on any upper floor is quite a sight. It's 101 feet high and two stories taller than the original. In the front there's a huge replica of the Sphinx from Egypt. Before they lowered the intensity circa 2021 (cost-cutting?), MGM Resorts claimed that it was 'arguably the brightest light beam on earth on and on a clear night is said to be visible all the way from L.A.!' At night it shoots a light beam into the sky. The building itself is a big black pyramid (sadly adorned with advertising these days). Vegas casinos surprisingly unprofitable.

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