On the Spice World Tour in 1997, the Spice Girls played the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. This year the girls will be Spicing up the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.

Tennis champ Andre Agassi comes from Las Vegas, and now lives here with his wife Steffi Graf and children Jaden and Jaz.

At the last count, there were 197,144 slot machines in Las Vegas. Ker-ching!

Visitors spend an average of 3.9 hours each day gambling in the spectacular Las Vegas casinos.

Going to the chapel? Well, join the queue. More than 300 couples tie the knot in Las Vegas every day.

GIRL POWER! Helen J Stewart earned the nickname The First Lady of Las Vegas after she chose to sell land in 1902 for the building of a railroad, a move which sparked the growth of the city.