Most areas confine their junkyards to industrial areas.
That ghostly desert shipwreck on Flamingo Road at the site of the perpetually unbuilt Caribbean hotel-casino sailed into second place, pushing last year's winner, the Stratosphere Tower, into third. Because these boring Y-shaped skyscrapers are taking over the Las Vegas Strip, that's why. When The Mirage opened, with its centralized lobby and spokelike hotel towers branching off in different directions, the setup had some novelty. We could even understand when The Mirage's sister property, Treasure Island, employed the same design. But the Monte Carlo, built by Circus Circus, doesn't have that excuse.