A closer look
Why visit a historic, sinking Italian city filled with centuries of culture and raw sewage when you can ride a fake gondola inside a Nevada casino? The Venetian resort in Las Vegas recreated the iconic canals, but instead of murky lagoon water, they opted for an intensely sanitized, chemically treated bright blue liquid. The gondoliers sing in Italian while floating you past a motorized animatronic pigeon, offering all the romance of Europe with absolutely zero risk of contracting cholera.
