USA Guide
The Southwest
The Strip
For its razor-edge finesse in harnessing sheer, magnificent excess to the deadly serious business of making money, there's no place like the Las Vegas Strip. It's hard to imagine that Las Vegas was once an ordinary city, and Las Vegas Boulevard a dusty thoroughfare scattered with the usual edge-of-town motels. After six decades of capitalism run riot, with every new casino-hotel setting out to surpass anything its neighbours ever dreamed of, the Strip remains locked into a hyperactive craving for thrills and glamour, forever discarding its latest toy in its frenzied pursuit of the next jackpot.