If your purse-strings are tight this visit (or if you’ve already emptied your wallet at the craps tables), you may want to head to some of the city’s lesser-known but worth-visiting free attractions. Las Vegas is home to the CBS Television City Research Center at the MGM Grand, offering a behind-the-scenes look at television programming and production.

Fans of gardening and horticulture will want to check out the Bellagio‘s Conservatory, with exotic plants and flowers, or the hotel’s famous fountains, particularly breathtaking when lit up at night. Las Vegas Museums include the Marjorie Barrick Museum’s retrospective of ancient Mexico, M&M’s World for the chocolaholic seeking an education in sumptuous sweets, and the Neon Museum, showcasing the lights that made Sin City what it is today. All of the hotels along The Strip are attractions unto themselves, and travelers can spend hours freely wandering through hotel lobbies and casinos.