Travel+Leisure Magazine – Las Vegas’s Best New Attractions

Travel+Leisure Magazine – Las Vegas’s Best New Attractions

Travel LeisureTravel+Leisure Magazine names The Mob Museum “Las Vegas’s Best New Attraction”
Opens Valentine’s Day, 2012. It’s the actual former federal courthouse where such landmark hearings as the 1950 Kefauver hearings on organized crime were held. Here, Las Vegas’s former “Happiest Mayor on Earth,” Oscar Goodman, defended real-life wiseguys like Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro (playing himself defending a facsimile of The Ant in the movie Casino). The long-awaited (a decade, to be exact) $42 million museum was created by the same team that designed the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Among its showpieces: part of the bullet-ridden wall from the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. 300 Stewart Ave.

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