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You can't miss this 30-storey pyramid fronted by a 10-storey high crouching sphinx. Inside is the world's biggest atrium, which is topped off by a beacon of light so strong it can be seen by astronauts. For a taste of Egyptian history, the King Tut Museum features exquisite reproductions of ancient artifacts.

Elvis-A-Rama Museum*CLOSED*

The King may have left the building, but his impersonators and the largest private collection of his memorabilia are still very much in the house. It's gaudy, cheesy and over-the-top, but so was the man himself.

You'd think a museum devoted to 'The King' would be simply too much, but acolytes can't help falling in love with this place. There are 2000 personal items that once belonged to that big hunk o' love, for which the museum's fanatical owner paid a whopping $5 million. On display are such nifty collectibles as Presley's army uniform, a scintillating love letter to a girlfriend, even some of his cars. Curation isn't high on the list here; it's a random assortment and the museum may not leave you all shook up. It's worth the price of admission only for the 15-minute impersonator show, which takes place several times daily in a spooky cabaret-style venue. You'll see crowds here for the afternoon tribute shows, with multiple Kings in full regalia.

Liberace Museum

You can't really say you've been to Vegas without dropping in to this shrine, built to honour one of the city's true patron saints. The museum is crammed with Lib's outrageous sequined capes, rhinestone jewellery, flashy cars and fabulous candelabra.

Known and loved throughout the world as 'Mr Showmanship', Liberace was honoured during his lifetime with two Emmy Awards, six gold records and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Following his death in 1987, just months after his final performances at New York's Radio City Music Hall, the late great entertainer was posthumously honoured with the creation of this outrageously cheesy off-Strip museum.

Liberace's favourite stage pianos - a rhinestone-encrusted Baldwin and a concert grand covered in mirrors - are not to be missed. Among the rare pianos on display are a hand-painted Pleyel on which Chopin played and a Chickering grand once owned by Gershwin. The lineup of Liberace's cars includes a hand-painted red, white and blue Rolls-Royce convertible, a Rolls-Royce clad entirely in mirror tiles, and a roadster covered in Austrian rhinestones.

Many visitors are enamored by Liberace's wardrobe and jewellery. Elaborately feathered capes, sequined suits and million-dollar furs are as funny as they are frightening in their oddity.

Time your visit to join one of the free guided tours led by passionate, but self-censorious Liberace fans ('Red Hatters'). Call ahead for schedules.