Las Vegas can feel huge and overwhelming, but there's way more to do than to head to the casinos. Read ahead for our picks for the best things to see & do on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas is unique in so many ways. One of them is that its history, which is short but intense, can be told through the birth and demise of the resorts that dot the Strip, the rise and fall of its casino industry titans. This brief history of the Las Vegas Strip presents every casino hotel built along Las Vegas Boulevard South, the most celebrated and most visited stretch of asphalt on Earth, starting in 1941 with the El Rancho Vegas