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What to do and see in Las Vegas, Nevada (NV): The Best Monuments & Statues
Whether you’re a high roller or a low-key lounger, Las Vegas has something to suit your vacation taste. Sample fare from top chefs and cornucopian buffets, try your luck at one of the world’s premier casinos, or take in a spectacular show. Just wandering the Strip is enough to get your heart pumping. Once you’ve had enough of the razzle-dazzle, wave hello to the toothy sea life at the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef, hike Red Rock Canyon, or visit the Neon Museum, where old signs take on new life.
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1. Statue of Elvis
2. Las Vegas Veterans Memorial
3. The Las vegas Community Healing Garden
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By travelhound711 - Las Vegas, United States
Very small intimate gathering to remember and pay tribute to those lost. Spent about 30 minutes, but you can spend much longer looking at everything left in-depth. Each victim has their own tree planted and decorated with lovely things from their family and friends
4. Fergusons Downtown
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 13 reviews
Big Rig Jig made by Mike Ross
Reviewed By endoedibles - Las Vegas, United States
From the moment Big Rig Jig was placed in the former Fergusons Motel courtyard locals wondered what was coming, the answer now fully visible with two Restaurants from Dan Krohmer, a Coffee Shop and green space offering live music, movies and more. Expanding DTLV's footprint further east than ever, the revitalization of the 1940s space looks offer a space for the community that celebrates creativity. From plants to leather and handmade to salvage this is how you develop relationships and lasting ideas in a city often considered transient.
5. Benjamin Bugsy Siegel Plaque
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 27 reviews
Dedication to this infamous gangster is hidden in the Flamingo's garden.
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
I must admit that, of all the attractions in Las Vegas, the one I was most interested in seeing was the Bugsy Siegel Memorial. If you've seen the movie "Bugsy" with Warren Beatty and any of the other Luciano/Lansky/Siegel documentaries, you come away fascinated by Siegel's vision of building the original Flamingo Hotel and Casino in 1946 and turning Las Vegas from a desert hideaway into a multi-billion-dollar entertainment and gambling mecca. Today, Las Vegas offers mob museums and tours. But the Bugsy Siegel Memorial or Benjamin Bugsy Siegel Plaque remains the only important landmark to the mobster who made it all happen. Located at 3555 Las Vegas Boulevard, on the east side of The Strip, in the outdoor garden of the Flamingo Las Vegas, at the end of an open-air fuchsia canopy, in front of the Flamingo Las Vegas' wedding chapel, just north of Flamingo Road, is a bronze plaque dedicated to Siegel. He opened the original Flamingo in 1946. It stood where the garden and swimming pool of the new Flamingo now sprawl. With 77 rooms, it was the largest and most luxurious Las Vegas resort of its day. And its success paved the way for the Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mirage and Luxor, the 4,000-room giants that currently line the Las Vegas Strip. It also proved to be Siegel's undoing. Cost of construction was over $6 million, well over the mob's budget. And Siegel's penchant for publicity also displeased his fellow mobsters. He was killed only six months after the Flamingo opened. But his vision will always remain.
6. Bliss Dance Statue
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By jakb1969 - Detroit, United States
I almost missed this because I was expecting a small statue for some reason. It's in an area going back towards T-Mobile Arena. Look for the color changing waterfall and Hello Kitty food truck, and it's back behind there. It's a beautiful statue. Great for pics.
7. Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
At first glance, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument looks like a scene out of a documentary on Mars or some forbidden planet. But, be alert, visitors have a reasonable chance of discovering Ice Age fossils of Columbian mammoths or American lions that range from 7,000 to 250,000 years old. To some people, like me, that's an exciting prospect. Located at 4400 Horse Drive, 10 miles north of Las Vegas, in the Upper Las Vegas Wash, this 22,650-acre monument was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries, including mammoth tusks and bones of bison, lions, horses, camels and sloths, all of whom lived in a wooded environment, very different from the barren plains of today. Other attractions available to off-trail hikers in the wide, empty valley between the Spring Mountains and the Sheep Range are the desert landscape, spring wildflowers and occasional wildlife such as bighorn sheep, mule deer, snakes and lizards. One notable plant is the arctomecon californica, or Las Vega bearpoppy. For historians, one of the major excavation sites is near Decatur Boulevard, where a group of trenches, some up to a mile long, are evidence of the Big Dig of 1962.
