Las VegasSights

Garden sights in Las Vegas

  1. A

    Mirage Rainforest Atrium

    This high-roller's casino is replete with a rainforest atrium under a 100ft (30m) conservatory dome filled with jungle foliage, meandering streams and soothing cascades. Woven into this waterscape are scores of bromeliads. Exotic scents waft through the hotel lobby, with its 20,000-gallon saltwater aquarium harboring five dozen species of tropical critters from pufferfish to pygmy sharks.

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  2. Ethel M Chocolate Factory & Botanical Cactus Garden

    This chocolatier’s self-guided ‘factory tour’ won’t take you more than five minutes. Grab a free sample then visit the pleasant, 2.5-acre desert garden outside with more than 350 species of succulents, such as teddy bear cholla, organ pipe, beavertail cacti, and crazy octotillo. It’s not worth a special trip, though.

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  3. B

    Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden

    Beyond the hotel lobby, adorned with Dale Chihuly’s sculpture of 2000 vibrant hand-blown glass flowers, the Bellagio’s conservatory houses ostentatious floral arrangements that are bizarrely installed by crane through a soaring 50ft-high ceiling. The effect is ridiculously unnatural, but that doesn’t stop crowds from gathering.

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