Las Vegas approaches the holidays at a scale found nowhere else, with casino-resort installations that change each year, a desert setting that yields cactus lighting displays found in no other major city, and a 24-hour calendar that turns the season into a continuous event. The Strip's concentration of resorts means most major displays sit within a walkable two-mile stretch.

• Bellagio Conservatory: The resort's free seasonal botanical display is one of the most-photographed holiday installations in the country, rebuilt with new themes each year.
• Ethel M Chocolates Cactus Garden: Henderson's chocolate factory wraps its three-acre cactus garden in lights, one of the country's only major desert-cactus holiday displays.
• Strip Holiday Dining: Las Vegas hosts the densest concentration of celebrity-chef restaurants in the country (Joël Robuchon, Picasso, Carbone, Bouchon), and the holiday season brings prix-fixe Christmas and New Year's menus that turn the Strip into a destination for food alongside the casino floor.
• Strip Resort Lobbies: The Venetian, Wynn, Aria, and Caesars Palace install distinct holiday displays in their public lobbies, each free to walk through and connected by indoor passageways.