Haunted things to do in Las Vegas
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Las Vegas? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — National Atomic Testing Museum, Boulder Dam Hotel, Woodlawn Cemetery and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Las Vegas they'd never find on their own.
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National Atomic Testing Museum
A Smithsonian-affiliated archive built entirely around one subject — the more than 900 nuclear tests conducte…
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Boulder Dam Hotel
Built in 1933 to house Hoover Dam-era VIPs — Shirley Temple, Boris Karloff, and Norway's Crown Prince Olav al…
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Woodlawn Cemetery
Established in 1914 on 10 acres (now 40) and listed on the National Register since 2006, this working cemeter…
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Big Edge (boat sculpture at Vdara)
Artist Nancy Rubins welded roughly 200 real canoes, kayaks, rowboats and surfboards into a 57-by-75-foot expl…
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Fox Ridge Park
An ordinary Henderson neighborhood park by daylight, locally famous after dark for one specific swing that's…