VEGAS BIBLEPLANNER Your Vegas plannerExplore stories about Las Vegas history, screen locations and famous personalities as you plan your visit.
Open the planner or guide ↓Use the stories to find another reason to visit a neighbourhood or landmark. Pair your reading with the map and save nearby places that interest you.
Historic settings and screen locations can change use or appearance. Confirm present-day access before travelling specifically to see a place mentioned in a story.
Famous faces, film scenes and the city beneath the lights.
The Mob Museum, Las Vegas
In 1950, Senator Estes Kefauver’s committee questioned witnesses here about organised crime in the casino industry. The restored courtroom is inside the museum: you are standing in the room where the questions were asked, not a recreated movie set.
Downtown · Museum admission required; courtroom access can change for events.
Find this location ↗The Neon Museum, Las Vegas
The Moulin Rouge opened in 1955 as Las Vegas’s first major racially integrated hotel and casino. Its brief life left a lasting legacy: the property hosted the 1960 agreement that helped end segregation in the city’s hotels. Betty Willis designed its elegant neon lettering.
Learn its story at the Neon Museum; the original casino is no longer operating. Check which signs are on display.
Find this location ↗The Neon Museum, Las Vegas
Boxing champion Joe Louis invested in the Moulin Rouge and worked as a greeter there. His connection to the casino is part of a bigger Vegas story about Black entertainers, business owners and the fight against segregation.
Pair this story with the Moulin Rouge history; museum admission required.
Find this location ↗Vegas Vic, Fremont Street, Las Vegas
Vegas Vic arrived above the Pioneer Club in 1951. The cowboy became a symbol of downtown’s neon era, surviving long after the original casino closed. Look up from Fremont Street for this familiar face from old Vegas photographs.
Exterior viewing from Fremont Street; sign lighting may vary.
Find this location ↗Westgate Las Vegas
Long before it became Westgate, this resort hosted Elvis Presley’s celebrated Las Vegas residency. The bronze Elvis statue offers a present-day stop connected to the singer’s Vegas years, without needing a show ticket.
Find the Elvis statue in the lobby. Ask staff for directions if needed.
Find this location ↗Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Caesars Palace is the recognisable hotel at the heart of The Hangover. Its entrance and lobby make an easy film-location stop. The spectacularly trashed suite was created on a soundstage, so there is no real room that exactly matches that scene.
Visit public areas only. Hotel rooftops and guest floors are not sightseeing routes.
Find this location ↗Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Caesars Palace also features in Rain Man, when the brothers’ road trip reaches Las Vegas. The real hotel provides the setting for their casino success and dancing lesson. Enjoy spotting the resort rather than expecting every filming space to be publicly accessible.
Same stop as The Hangover — two films, one resort.
Find this location ↗Circus Circus, Las Vegas
Diamonds Are Forever brought James Bond to Circus Circus in 1971. The casino and midway featured in the film, making the resort a surviving link to the bright, theatrical Vegas of the early 1970s.
North Strip · The layout has changed since filming.
Find this location ↗Circa Resort, Las Vegas
Vegas Vickie’s neon cowgirl sign now takes centre stage inside Circa, beside the cocktail lounge named for her. It is a modern resort making room for a piece of downtown’s older visual identity.
Find the sign near Vegas Vickie’s lounge; Circa is an adults-only resort.
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