The Londoner Macao

This guide to The Londoner Macao starts with the full-size Big Ben replica towering over the Cotai Strip, built to the exact height of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower, and works back to the gamble behind it: Las Vegas Sands opened this property in 2012 as Sands Cotai Central, poured four billion dollars into it, and watched the returns disappoint. You'll hear how executives decided, by 2017, to tear the whole complex apart and rebuild it as a slice of London, and follow the replica landmarks that went up in its place, from Trafalgar Square's lions to a working double-decker bus. Listen for the Changing of the Guard, staged daily right on the Strip.