Las Vegas Skyline

The camera is up above the boulevard at the point in the evening when the sky is still blue and the signs have already won. Directly below, the Bellagio fountains are running in their lake, lit white against the water. The half-scale Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas stands up out of the middle distance, which is the easiest way to orient yourself; the resorts run away along the Strip on either side of it, each one a different idea of somewhere else. Past the last of the towers in every direction the ground simply stops being built on and goes to desert and mountains, which is the part people who have only seen photographs of the Strip tend not to expect.

The Las Vegas Skyline is one of the most recognizable cityscapes in the country. Along Las Vegas Boulevard, also known as The Strip, dozens of astonishing architectural wonders can be seen—these are primarily the hotels and casinos of Sin City, as Vegas is otherwise known. The Las Vegas Skyline is brilliantly lit up by neon lights, lighted fountain displays, and the unique architecture of dozens of tall buildings, which are a vivid contrast to the rest of the relatively flat city.