Neon Museum: Where Old Vegas meets New Vegas

The Neon Museum in Las Vegas collects signs with gas-filled tubes, signs with patchworks of light bulbs and signs that are just plain old logos. But all figure prominently in the past of the city that has long been associated with glamorous, flashing lights from the Strip to downtown. The museum opens to the public Saturday with tours of the new visitor center (the old La Concha Motel lobby) and more than 100 vintage Vegas signs in an area known as the Boneyard. -- Mary Forgione