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Arrange your subjects in front of the most gorgeous floral display. The skylights give good light (see Conservatory and Botanical Gardens).

Bellagio’s two chapels provide some of the most elegant and romantic wedding venues in Las Vegas. Both have a stained glass window behind the altar, while ornate lamps and chandeliers of amethyst and Venetian glass compliment the pastel shades of the furnishings. Personalized services are available for room reservations as well as both wedding and reception planning.

Las Vegas bookstores carry a large assortment of publications on the locale, including The Nevada Trivia Book by Richard Moreno, A Short History of Las Vegas by Myrick and Barbara Land, and several about slot machines by Marshall Fey (grandson of the inventor of the first slot machine). For fiction, try Sweet Promised Land or A Cup of Tea in Pamplona by the late Basque-American writer, Robert Laxalt.

This lovely shrine is supposed to bring good luck.

Two 24-hour-a-day breakfast specials are available at Binion’s coffee shop for $5.95. One includes ham and hash browns; the other, pancakes. But wait: from 6 to 11am the club’s snack bar sells scrambled eggs, sausage, and gravy for $2.75.

A. J. Hackett Bunjy (the premises are next to Circus Circus) has been in business 12 years with a reassuring 100 percent safety record. Jumpers go by elevator to the top of a (very) high tower, get strapped into safety harnesses, take a numbing look at the Strip 175 ft (53 m) below, and – well, jump.

In this strange juxtaposition of ancient Rome and modern Las Vegas, techno-warriors do battle amid fluted columns with sophisticated arcade games.