Lake of Dreams

18 Best Things to Do in Las Vegas

"When Steve Wynn bought the old Desert Inn to turn it into Wynn, he built a 130-foot mountain that he covered with pine trees (salvaged from the Desert Inn's golf course). Why? He didn't want his guests to look out the window and see the spaceship-shaped Fashion Show Mall across Las Vegas Boulevard. Since its opening in 2005, the waterfall at the Lake of Dreams has functioned as a daytime oasis, and a screen at night, on which you can see surreal performance videos, an animatronic frog with the voice of Garth Brooks (popularly known as "Wynnie"), and a number of other mini-shows that rotate from sundown every half hour until 11:30 p.m. Among the playlist of three-minute performances is a chilling and beautiful rendition of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” by LA’s Rock Mafia. If you have kids, you MUST bring them." - Andrea Bennett