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Illustration of the Mob Museum facade, illuminated columns, green windows and palms at blue hour.

Downtown Mob Walk

Follow James Hogg’s mob stories from the Mob Museum through downtown Las Vegas to the Plaza.

Stops
20narrated
Places
7

About this tour

Follow James Hogg’s mob stories from the Mob Museum through downtown Las Vegas to the Plaza.

  • 20 stops with audioDiscover the stories behind the places you see.
  • Go at your own paceTake a self-guided tour, with time to pause and look around.
Learn more about this tour

Use the Vegas Retold app to explore the stops as you go. The list below lets you see what’s included before choosing your tour.

The tour includes 23 minutes of narration. Leave extra time to walk, explore and stop along the way.

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Meet the creators

Stories with an editor’s eye. Exploring made simple.

James Hogg

James Hogg

Editor-in-chief

James selects and shapes our stories, bringing an editor’s eye to what matters and how it is told.

Piers Rollinson

Product & operations

Piers brings the stories into the app and onto the web, helping you find your next stop and explore at your own pace.

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Tour stops

Explore all 20 stops on this tour.

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  1. The Courthouse

    Mob Museum · Location: The Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Avenue

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  2. The Kefauver Testimony

    Mob Museum · Location: The Mob Museum, second-floor courtroom

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  3. The Wall from Chicago

    Mob Museum · Location: The Mob Museum, third floor

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  4. The Underground

    Mob Museum · Location: The Mob Museum, basement (side entrance on the east side)

    Visiting information

    The Underground permits all ages to walk through its exhibition before 5 p.m.; seating and food or beverage service are 21+. Check the Museum’s current admission and visiting rules.

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  5. The Black Book

    Mob Museum · Location: The Mob Museum (outside, before setting off)

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  6. Oscar’s Window

    Mob Museum · Location: Outside the Mob Museum, looking across Stewart Avenue towards the old City Hall

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  7. Black-and-white street view of El Cortez, with its corner hotel sign and parked cars.

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    Bugsy Buys Downtown

    El Cortez · Location: El Cortez, 600 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    El Cortez is 21+ throughout the property and requires valid government-issued ID. Listening does not require entry.

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  8. El Cortez hotel frontage and cars on Fremont Street in an archival photograph.

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    The Driver Who Didn’t Run

    El Cortez · Location: El Cortez, 600 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    El Cortez is 21+ throughout the property and requires valid government-issued ID. Listening does not require entry.

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  9. The Lanskys’ Counting House

    Fremont Hotel · Location: Fremont Hotel and Casino, 200 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  10. Argent’s Fremont

    Fremont Hotel · Location: Fremont Hotel and Casino

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  11. The Lucky Oscar

    Four Queens · Location: Four Queens, 202 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  12. The Vice Cop Who Named the Strip

    Golden Nugget · Location: Golden Nugget, 129 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  13. A Million Dollars and Two Machine Guns

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Binion’s Gambling Hall, 128 East Fremont Street

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  14. The Horseshoe Didn’t Call the Police

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Binion’s Gambling Hall

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  15. The Cab Driver Who Bet Wrong

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Binion’s Gambling Hall

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  16. The Million Dollars in a Glass Case

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Binion’s Gambling Hall

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  17. Ted Binion’s Buried Silver

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Binion’s Gambling Hall

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  18. The Horse That Went to South Point

    Binion’s — Downtown · Location: Corner of Casino Center Drive and Ogden Avenue, beside Binion’s

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  19. The Myth vs. the Record

    Plaza · Location: The Plaza, 1 Main Street

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

  20. “Not a Bad Place to Dump a Body”

    Plaza · Location: The Plaza, 1 Main Street (Oscar’s steakhouse)

    Visiting information

    Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

    Access alternative: Listen without entering restricted, ticketed or age-limited areas.

Where you’ll go

The numbers match the stop list above. Choose “Show on map” in the list, or select a marker to explore a stop. Use “Back to stop list” to return to its highlighted row.

18 of 20 stops shown. Indoor locations may be approximate. This is an area preview, not a walking route.

Q & A

Do I need the app?

You’ll need the Vegas Retold app to follow this tour. You can explore the stops here.

The iPhone app is not available to download here yet.

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How long does it take?

A walking distance and total visit time aren’t published for this tour.

There are 23 minutes of narration. This is listening time, not a total visit estimate.

Are there any access restrictions?

Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site. Courtroom, exhibits and Underground are optional interior visits with separate admission/access/age requirements; this tour grants no entry. Do not rely on the authored story order as an interior floor route.

Use signed public paths and follow venue rules. We haven’t checked the exact stopping places or walking connections on site.

Indoor locations and access can change. This preview does not establish step-free access to every stop.

Can I listen or read?

This tour includes 20 narrated stops. You can listen or read when you have access.

A free audio sample has not been published for this tour.

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Illustration of the Mob Museum facade, illuminated columns, green windows and palms at blue hour.

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Downtown Mob Walk

Single tour

Stops
20
Places
7

Places included

  • Mob Museum
  • El Cortez
  • Fremont Hotel
  • Four Queens
  • Golden Nugget
  • Binion’s — Downtown
  • Plaza

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Days of access
14
People
1

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The Vegas Retold Promise

Look closer.
Leave seeing more.

A detail worth noticing

Stories that connect the city’s past to the places around you.

The evidence stays visible

Sources, context and a clear distinction between what’s known and what’s uncertain.

Room for your curiosity

Take your time. Follow what catches your eye. A single discovery can be enough.

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