1. The hotel-casino New York-New York in Las Vegas with copies skyscrapers of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge.

2. Las Vegas police stand guard outside Harrah's hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Feb. 21, 2006.

3. George Karadanis, a California general contractor who also owns two hotel-casinos in Nevada, is the project builder.

4. A full moon rises behind a Christmas tree made of lights mounted on the roof of a hotel-casino in downtown Reno, Nev. early in the evening on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.

5. Yang Lan conceived the idea of collaborating with Celine Dion after she interviewed the superstar backstage at Dion's Las Vegas show at Caesars Palace hotel-casino in May, 2007.

6. The lights of passing cars are reflected in the facade of the hotel-casino MGM Grand in Las Vegas.